Feb 19 Watch More Evidence Chinese Military Unit Hacked Hundreds of U.S. Computer Systems An intelligence report suggests that a secretive military unit in China has been hacking the computer systems of American corporations and organizations since 2006 and stealing information. President Obama highlighted the need for greater cyber security in his recent State… Continue watching
Jan 31 Watch New York Times Computer System Target of Lengthy Chinese Hacking Attack New York Times Computer System Victim of Lengthy Chinese Hacking Attack… Continue watching
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Hackers in Iran Likely Responsible for Cyber Attacks in Persian Gulf In other news Friday, U.S. authorities have new evidence suggesting hackers based in Iran carried out cyber attack that crippled 30,000 computers at major oil and gas companies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Also, Pakistani police arrested suspects connected to… Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch Internet Voting: Will Democracy or Hackers Win? While it seems like everything can be done online these days, that's not actually the case when it comes to elections. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien explores the security, logistical and secrecy challenges of Internet voting. Continue watching
Jan 20 Watch Hackers Retaliate Against DOJ in Raging Online Piracy Fight Just hours after the Justice Department shut down the file-sharing website megaupload.com and charged several of its executives with online piracy Thursday, a group of hackers retaliated by taking down the DOJ website. Margaret Warner discusses the ongoing battle with… Continue watching
Jun 09 Watch New Wrap: After Top Staff Resign, Gingrich Pledges to Revive Campaign In other news Thursday, Newt Gingrich's bid for the GOP 2012 nomination suffered a major blow when his campaign manager, senior staff and key aides in early primary states all resigned, but the candidate pledged to stay in the race. Continue watching
Apr 27 Watch Sony PlayStation System Hacking Incident Highlights Web-Security Gaps Ray Suarez discusses the Sony PlayStation data breach with Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen. Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Gawker Hacking Exposes Some Web Users’ Bad Password Habits Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, was hacked over the weekend and information for about 1.3 million users was made public. Jeffrey Brown speaks with the NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan about the cyber attack and what it means for… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Is the Web Becoming Less Secure? In the wake of the Gawker Media hacking over the weekend, Jeffrey Brown gets a wider perspective about the vulnerability of online information and the danger of further cyberattacks from James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies… Continue watching
Dec 12 Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone… Continue reading