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1. British police bust Zbot Trojan ring

   (Security/Security Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... Cluley, hackers designed the Zbot Trojan to harvest bank account and social networking passwords from unsuspecting victims.  "Once a hacker has your bank account information they can login and potentially ...

2. US government opens $9m cyber security center

   (Security/Security Features)

   Saturday, 31 October 2009

   ... Emergency Readiness Team and the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications. Apparently, US government computer systems are scanned millions of times a day by potential hackers, criminals and ...

3. Australian atheists targeted by hackers

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   Atheist websites in Australia have been hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Atheist websites in Australia have been hit by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In what's ...

4. Passwords: Methods for a Modern Bane

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Friday, 09 October 2009

   ... being sought by criminal hackers through various means, the most recent newsworthy event being the massive phishing attacks on Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail accounts. Experts tell us we need to make ...

5. Infamous hacker to serve 15 years behind bars

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 28 August 2009

   An infamous computer hacker has agreed to plead guilty to a number of charges, including conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the Associated Press, Albert Gonzalez will ...

6. IBM: Malicious web links up by 508 percent

   (Security/Security Features)

   Wednesday, 26 August 2009

   ... and Active X - have become an "atractive" target for hackers. "The trends highlighted by the report seem to indicate that the Internet has finally taken on the characteristics of the Wild West where no ...

7. Police hacker informer stole 130 million credit card details

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   A US hacker who once informed on the criminal underworld for the secret service has been working with Russian criminals to carry out a series of digital burglaries, prosecutors say.A US hacker who once ...

8. Feds indict infamous SQL hacker on conspiracy charges

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has indicted an infamous hacker for allegedly executing SQL injection attacks against a number of computer networks. According to the DoJ, Albert Gonzales stands accused ...

9. Russians bent Facebook, Twitter to launch cyber attacks

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   A non profit US organization will say today that Russian hackers stole US citizens' identities to launch attacks on Georgia during the brief but bloody war the two countries engaged in last year.A non ...

10. Hapless Twitter hijacked by insidious botnet

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 14 August 2009

    ... said Housman. "The ability to launch attack is so simple these days. For example, power companies that were supposedly off the grid fell victim to hackers last year. The hackers forced the corporations ...

11. Twitter attack aimed at Georgian blogger

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 07 August 2009

    ... region."Maybe it was carried out by ordinary hackers but I'm certain the order came from the Russian government. An attack on such a scale that affected three worldwide services with numerous servers could ...

12. Chinese hackers attack Melbourne Film Festival

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sunday, 26 July 2009

    Chinese hackers have attacked the website of the Melbourne's International Film festival, apparently furious that it was going to screen a documentary about exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. Melbourne, ...

13. 'Neighborhood watch' warns of cyber attacks

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ...  The developers say it could be used by private companies too. Let's hope the system itself is hacker-proof.    ...

14. CSI criticizes Microsoft's hack-and-patch strategy

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... an update or patch. "With this ActiveX security flaw, if a user visits certain websites and uses the ActiveX Control system, the vulnerability allows the hacker to take control and become the main ...

15. UK admits to cyber attack capability

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 25 June 2009

    ... the UK has the ability to launch cyber attacks against foreign governments. Lord West, who described hackers as 'nasty bastards', said that the UK had come under attack on a number of occasions from ...

16. Phone scams and virus 'epidemic' could be just round the corner

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 22 May 2009

    ... But, he said, he expects them to increase massively in the next year or two. "I think the hackers are testing their methods," he said. "What's significant is that now pretty much all of them are in it ...

17. UC Berkeley confirms data breach affecting 160,000 people

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 11 May 2009

    The University of California, Berkeley, confirmed that hackers accessed databases containing critical personal data of about 160,000 individuals. Those affected are informed now, but the damage may already ...

18. UPDATED: Twitter hacker leaks info, peek behind the scenes at Obama

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    ... screenshots , which showed images that were supposedly taken by an anonymous hacker going by the name of Hacker Croll who was able to gain access to the account of Jason Goldman, a director of product ...

19. Hacker-proof communications get one step closer

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    It's the dream of governments, banks and large businesses - quantum cryptography, a completely watertight means of communication.CAMBRIDGE, UK - It's the dream of governments, banks and large businesses ...

20. World's largest malware network discovered

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 21 April 2009

    ... controlled by the cybercriminals, enabling them to execute almost any command on the end-user computer. "Some will be hired out for hackers to use, or to spammers, and they will have sucked information ...

21. UPDATED: U.S. electrical grid falls victim to cyber-spying

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 08 April 2009

    It's being reported that the U.S. electrical grid has been infiltrated by hackers primarily from China, Russia, but also from other countries. The software does not do anything harmful, however it is ...

22. Romania: Alleged hackers fought the law, and the law won

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 March 2009

    Earlier today, police in Romania detained 20 alleged hackers accused of cloning bank websites. The scheme was designed to obtain financial information from unsuspecting consumers who visited the cloned ...

23. Director of Federal Cybersecurity resigns over NSA dominance

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 09 March 2009

    ... cybersecurity, which can support the development of more effective cyber policies for years to come. The model describes the incentive structure for various participants in the system, including hackers. ...

24. New version of Conficker, malicious program, begins infiltrating machines

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 24 February 2009

    ... the operating system and provides spammers, cyber criminal and hackers with back door which allows them to access an individual’s machine. Now we are seeing a follow-up with Conficker B++, which aims ...

25. Obama will have to do without his blackberry

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 12 January 2009

    ... will be more susceptible to hackers and other attacks on such a network. Currently, the government trusts employees with Blackberry’s because the data sent from them is heavily encrypted prior ...

26. FBI ranks cyber attacks third most dangerous behind nuclear war and WMDs

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    ... he indicates, this time the damage will come without commensurate levels of visible destruction. While the United States has, to date, never seen an attack of that scale, Russian hackers allegedly mounted ...

27. Microsoft confirms SQL Server vulnerable to injection attacks

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 23 December 2008

    ... name, address, phone    FROM users    WHERE active = TRUE    INTO ActiveListHackers can use malformed SQL Server requests to exploit the flaw and inject malicious content into a database, possibly defacing ...

28. Microsoft sees 'huge increase' in IE attacks

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    Microsoft warned Saturday of a "huge increase" in attacks exploiting a critical unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) and said some originated from hacked pornography sites. Other researchers ...

29. Anonymous member charged with Scientology attack

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 20 October 2008

    ... This was part of the efforts of hacker group Anonymous. Chicago (IL) - Last Friday, an 18 year old man from New Jersey pleaded guilty to federal computer hacking charges for his participation in a denial ...

30. Adobe addresses ‘ClickJacking’ flaw in Flash 10

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Thursday, 16 October 2008

    Adobe’s Flash Player 10 released yesterday includes a fix for a security flaw found in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier. ‘ClickJacking’, as the issue was dubbed, would allow a hacker to mislead ...

31. Hackers can remote control your webcam and mic, Adobe issues ‘critical’ advisory

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 08 October 2008

      Adobe has issued a “critical” security alert to users of its Flash player.  The company warns people that hackers can mislead people into clicking on link that can then remotely control the user’s ...

32. Google Chrome security not bad at all

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 02 September 2008

      With Google’s Chrome browser barely a day old, people are already trying to find security holes.  One security researcher Aviv Raff says he’s found a vulnerability that allows hackers to ...

33. Firefox plug-in warns of compromised Internet connection

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 25 August 2008

      A new software released as a browser plug-in by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of Engineering provides an additional layer of security to warn ...

34. Apple patches DNS vulnerability, sort of

    (Security/Security Features)

    Friday, 01 August 2008

    ... DNS don’t sufficiently randomize the standard port 53.  Many servers were incrementing the ports with each request, something that makes it easy for hackers to access.  Also the DNS protocol ...

35. British hacker loses extradition appeal to US

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 30 July 2008

      A British hacker has lost his appeal against extradition to the United States.  42-year-old Gary McKinnon is accused of wreaking havoc on US military computer systems back in 2001 and 2002 by ...

36. Hell hath no fury like a gamer scorned – Hackers take down EA’s Scrabble

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 30 July 2008

      Scrabble Beta, the official Hasbro-licensed online game made by Electronic Arts, has been shut down by hackers.  Barely a week old, the official version of the game was meant to legally replace ...

37. China says it’s wasn’t skilled enough to hack Congressional computers

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Friday, 13 June 2008

    ... two years.  What’s interesting about Qin’s statement is that as recently as April, Chinese hacker groups were calling for denial of service attacks against major US sites.  One group, the ‘Revenge ...

38. US lawmakers accuse China of hacking Congressional computers

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Thursday, 12 June 2008

    ... Chris Smith from New Jersey say the attacks started in 2006 and that the hackers were looking for the names and addresses of Chinese dissidents.  One successful attack led to Chinese agents visiting ...

39. Hackers hit UN and other high-profile websites

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Thursday, 24 April 2008

    New York (NY) – Hackers have successfully hacked hundreds of thousands of websites, according to a security advisory by Websense.  Visitors to these sites, which include domains owned by the United ...

40. RAM exposes the key to your secret data

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 21 February 2008

    Researchers from Princeton University are describing a new and apparently very effective security attack that will allow hackers to access encrypted data on your PC. Technologies such Microsoft’s BitLocker, ...

41. RIAA website wiped?

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 21 January 2008

    The website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reportedly has been the target of two attacks of the weekend, one that aimed to overload the server with slow requests and another that ...

42. U.S. Army introducing Macs into server arsenal

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 26 December 2007

    ... attacks. United States - In an attempt to make the front-line security harder for hackers to hack, the U.S. Department of Army has developed a strategy which involves using Apple Macs in addition to Windows ...

43. iPhone a prime target for hackers next year, say security experts

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 11 December 2007

    ... group also noted that the iPhone will continue to be an attractive target because of hackers that want "bragging rights" for being among the first to attack a new platform. The device, which ...

44. TG Video: Wirelessly hacking Gmail and more - tutorial

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 11 October 2007

    ... as the attacking or hacker computer and one as the “victim” laptop. For this tutorial, we used the Airpcap USB capture stick to sniff wireless traffic.  The stick works great with the ...

45. Computer security vendor at DHS under scrutiny

    (Security/Security Brief)

    Tuesday, 25 September 2007

    Congressional investigators are charging that a contractor failed to protect Homeland Security Department computer networks against hackers, then tried to cover up its failures. “The department is ...

46. Big fish: Trojans catch U.S. Consulate in Russia

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 13 September 2007

    ... for Sophos.  “The frequency of these attacks is alarming and signifies that any organization, no matter the size or stature, is a target for hackers and malicious activity.”   Sophos ...

47. Intel promises enhanced trusted computing in virtualization with vPro

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 August 2007

    Intel announced today an extended platform technology which has the potential to make computer viruses and successful hacker attacks in virtualized environments a thing of the past. Santa Clara (CA) - ...

48. Defcon 2007 – Mayhem, mystery and marriage

    (Security/Security Features)

    Wednesday, 08 August 2007

    ... of thousands of hackers.  The Riviera’s minister presided over the ceremony and told the audience that he would love to do a group wedding for next year – that is if enough people are ...

49. Defcon 2007: The Wall of Sheep gets “Hamsterized”

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 07 August 2007

    “Oh look, I got a MySpace.”  While other attendees at the Defcon security convention were soaking in the atmosphere, a dedicated group of hackers were soaking in their data. Las Vegas ...

50. Defcon 2007: The Wi-Fi honeypot from hell

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 06 August 2007

    ... in Las Vegas.  A group of wireless hackers calling themselves the “Church of the WiFi” built a multi-router honeypot which captured gigabytes worth of port scans, man in the middle attacks ...