Philippine media say new cyber law threatens press

Philippine media groups say a new cybercrime law could be used to curb press freedom in the country.

Philippine media groups say a new cybercrime law could be used to curb press freedom in the country.

US semiconductor maker Nvidia Corp. says up to 400,000 users of its forums have had their encrypted passwords compromised in attacks dating back to early July.
Police in Greece have arrested an 18-year-old star hacker suspected of breaking into the website of crime-fighting agency Interpol, and a number of US state agencies, a senior officer said on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES — The head of the Sony Corp. unit that makes the PlayStation 3 game console says there’s no going back on a push to offer always-connected play despite a series of hacking attacks that downed its network and will cost the Japanese company around $173 million in special costs. Kazuo Hirai, group chief [...]
SYDNEY – Australia’s attorney-general said on Friday that cyber attacks had become so frequent that government and private networks were under “continuous threat”, testing online security defenses. But Robert McClelland declined to single out China, at the centre of hacking allegations from Internet giant Google, saying the “Australian government’s position is not to identify a [...]
SINGAPORE – US aerospace giant Boeing is under “continuous” cyber-attack but there has been no breach of its databases, a senior executive assured on Friday. The admission by Dennis Muilenburg, the chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space and Security, comes as Japanese electronics giant Sony recovers from a series of online incursions, while Google also [...]

The House committee on information and communications approved on Monday a consolidated bill defining cyber-crimes and providing safeguards and penalties to protect the integrity and confidentiality of subscribers’ information.