Cyberspace

A Perth real estate agent has lost more than AUS $50,000 in a fake Greek wedding accomodation spam that drew the attention of the Western Australian Consumer Protection group that is now warning all tourism operators to be wary. The scammers, believed to be operating from Nigeria, used stolen credit cards in a complex story about arranging a Greek wedding to obtain money.

The websites of the State Agency for National Security (DANS), the transport and information technologies ministry, and ballot-counting company Information Service have stopped responding.

DANS is the country's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency.

Hacktivist collective Anonymous have threatened to release the names of around 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members as part of an operation against the white supremacist group in the US. The names, obtained from a Klan twitter account, will be released as part of Anonymous group’s anti-Klan Operation KKK.

China opposes Internet attacks and wants to work with the United States in cyberspace but will defend its interests, a senior Chinese official said on Sept. 17 after U.S. President Barack Obama warned of a forceful response to Beijing over hacking.

Nary a day goes by without an article or news report appearing on how social media is slowly but surely transforming western society.
The latest “selfie” craze involves “divorce selfies”.
According to the Daily Mail, a Canadian couple commemorated the end of their marriage in a very unique way – by snapping a selfie.

The FBI has started investigating Hillary Clinton's controversial use of private email as Secretary of State and has contacted a firm that managed the setup, along with her attorney, The Washington Post reported on August 4.

The U.S. Justice Department is weighing a request by two government inspectors general to open a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account for her work as secretary of state, the New York Times reported on July 23.

THE HAGUE - The second set of Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) for responding to international cyber security challenges will be adopted in December, when a ministerial meeting will be held in Belgrade, OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in The Hague on Thursday.

If the Lord of the Rings universe has the Battle of Helm?s Deep, the first epic clash in the famed Tolkien series, then Turkey?s highly polarized social media world has the virtual political battle of April 3, 2015.

An Ankara criminal court ruled on March 15 for the acquittal of ten Redhack members charged with supporting left-separatist terror organizations.

Prosecutor ?aban Yavuz demanded an acquittal on the grounds the defendants were not proven guilty as charged in a summary judgment heard on March 15. The Interior Ministry was also a complainant in the case.