cyber crime

As the New York Times website remained disabled from hacking, the Canton Kayak Club website was hacked to display a message on Muslim oppression.

One of the four Columbia teens charged in what police ruled as the attempted murder of a cab driver in March has pleaded in connection with the crime, marking the first judgment in the case.

Rafael Mation came to the United States four years ago from Brazil with a degree in accounting and an interest in pursuing a career in English.

Columbia-based cybersecurity firm Sourcefire is being acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.

Federal agents and local law enforcement agencies in Maryland and across the country have arrested more than 250 men and a handful of women in a month-long operation targeting "child predators" who are part of a "disturbing trend" of adults connecting with children online and then abusing them, federal officials announced Monday.

U.S. commerce "would grind to a halt in a matter of days" in the wake of a crippling cyber attack that the nation's ports — including Baltimore — are ill prepared for, according to a new Brookings Institution report. But Port of Baltimore officials called the report "misleading and factually incorrect."

Under growing pressure over recently disclosed surveillance programs, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers on Tuesday that gathering telephone data and monitoring Internet use has helped to disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist events" since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Secret to computer security is to be found off-line

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, one of the authors of the CISPA cybersecurity bill, says it is necessary and will not put Internet users' privacy at risk.

BBB of Greater Maryland says Internet fraud is growing problem

Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson said Monday at a Greater Towson Committee town hall meeting that despite Towson's rising crime rate, Towson is safer than ever.

A new computing facility at the National Security Agency will help the country better defend against cyber attacks, agency officials and members of Congress said Monday.

Hackers pose a serious threat to U.S. small business

Servers that host internet service for more than 30 Maryland agencies are vulnerable to a cyber attack, according to a legislative audit released this week.

This week's Hopkins competition gives top students the opportunity to fend off hackers in real-world scenarios

Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration on Thursday asked lawmakers to expand the state's early voting program, allow absentee voters to mark their ballots online and offer same-day registration during early voting.

Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker joined Howard County Executive Ken Ulman and Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett Tuesday to urge Congress to find a way to avoid sequestration.

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman Tuesday joined Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett and Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker to urge Congress to find a way to avoid sequestration.

We must allow federal government, private businesses to communicate to thwart attacks

Group claims to have taken over U.S. Sentencing Commission's website to protest the prosecution of Aaron Swartz

Anne Arundel Community College students Marcelle Lee of Severna Park and Dustin Shirley of Odenton had never taken a digital forensics course at the school until summer, but they are undoubtedly fast learners.

Federal agents in Baltimore seized 36 commercial websites on Monday as part of an international operation to stop fraudulent online sales this holiday season.

A full-time civil engineering professor at Morgan State University was indicted by a federal jury on Wednesday in a scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding, according to federal prosecutors.

Dunbar Armored has been in the armored car business for nearly 90 years. But the Hunt Valley-based company is now branching into a new way to protect banks' and businesses' money and valuables: cybersecurity.

Tenable Network Security Inc. has quietly built a booming business selling network security products and services to the U.S. government and companies around the world. It's profitable and has thousands of clients.

A team of students from Reservoir and Centennial high schools took second place last week at the second annual Maryland Cyber Challenge and Competition

The rental market is fertile ground for con artists. Many rental scams target tenants, but landlords can be victimized, too.

Sequestration cuts would devastate America's already shaky cyber defenses.

All Baltimore colleges follow the same federal guidelines for reporting crimes on campus. But hard-to-explain discrepancies raise questions about the value of these reports in giving students and employees a snapshot of campus safety.

FBI Reveton virus alert

A Crofton man with a cache of weapons who allegedly threatened a former co-worker may be held for a week in a hospital before authorities decide whether to charge him with a crime, law enforcement officials said Saturday.

Shooting in Bolton Hill Tuesday night was the result of a robbery connected to a Craigslist.

Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein was one of two federal prosecutors appointed by Attorney Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. Friday to "lead criminal investigations" into the recent leak of U.S. classified intelligence information.