British Columbia Ferry Lines - the largest passenger ferry line in North America - has reportedly blocked access on its free Wi-fi service to any site that has sex-education or abortion related content, inviting criticism from many quarters.
Computer hackers repeatedly entered the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market in the past year, but the trading platform was not compromised, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Britain, worried about a growing threat from cyber espionage and cyber crime, offered Friday to host an international conference to tackle such issues.
Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year old Russian, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he is the mastermind behind a notorious botnet, dubbed Mega-D, that controlled a network of infected computers and generated some 10 billion spam e-mails daily, or a third of the world's total.
