Tag archive: cyber

Last year Estonia suffered weeks of debilitating cyber attacks after it took down an old statue of a Russian Red Army soldier in its capital, Tallinn. The denial of service attacks that followed crashed computers in many government departments. Estonia blamed Russia, but Moscow has always denied any involvement. 12 months on from that event, a cyber defense hub has now opened in Estonia. It will be funded and staffed by seven Nato… Read More

A worrying new study by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) has foundthat Americans are disturbingly ignorant when it comes to cyber security. Almost half (48%) don’t know how to protect themselves from cyber crime, while 46% don’t know what to do if theybecome cyber crime victims.   Perhaps the most staggering figure is that, although the term has been bandied round a great deal in recent months, 71% have never heard of… Read More

If you don’t think cyber warfare could be a major problem in the future, then NATO would like to change your mind. At a conference in London last week,Suleyman Anil, the man charged with guarding NATO from cyber attacks, told the Guardian, "Cyber defense is now mentioned at the highest level along withmissile defence and energy security. We have seen more of these attacks and we don't think this problem will disappear soon.… Read More

The advantage to being first to market is you have the market to yourself for awhile; the disadvantage is your product looks old first and people stop buying it. Xbox 360 sales have been slowing though they still seemed to be outselling the PS3 which is rumored to be getting a price cut shortly to boost sales. The Deal So far the response to this new product has been a bit tepid, the core advantages over the Xbox 360 are HDMI… Read More

It was announced yesterday that the U.S. took home the gold from the 2005 World Cyber Games' Grand Final in Singapore as they won two gold medals and one silver in Counter-Strike, Halo 2 and WarCraft III: Frozen Throne against a field of 700 competitors representing 67 countries. Kyle Miller (Washington DC), Ronald Kim (Dallas, TX), Sal Garozzo (New York, NY), Josh Sievers (Des Moines, IA), and Mike So (Los Angeles, CA) comprise Team… Read More

While one of the biggest brick and mortar retail shopping days of the year is Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), what is coming to be known as one of the biggest virtual shopping days of the year happens the following Monday. Called Cyber Monday by Shop.org, an association for retailers online, 77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially last year on the Monday after Thanksgiving. This is… Read More

Valve and Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) today announced the settlement of a pending federal court lawsuit filed by Valve in August 2002. The parties have resolved their differences, and the settlement provides for the dismissal of all claims and counterclaims. Under the settlement agreement, VU Games will cease distribution of retail packaged versions of Valve's games, including Half-Life®, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike