hacking

Could WarGames really have happened?


I recently revisited WarGames and found myself enjoying the film as much as I did when it first hit theaters in 1983.

Israeli government websites downed in suspected hacker attack

Three Israeli government websites - involving army and intelligence - were down on Sunday a few days after a threat from a hacker group.

Facebook admits more than half a million hacking attacks per day

Facebook's launched new security features, claiming its users are subject to as many as 600,000 hacking attempts per day.

Hidemyass says it doesn't hide your ass

You might think that a company called Hidemyass would do just that - but no.

LulzSec suspects arrested

The FBI has arrested three men on suspicion of having carried out hacking attacks against Sony Pictures and Santa Cruz County websites.

Mila Kunis is latest celebrity hack victim

With nude photos of Scarlett Johansson believed to have been stolen by hackers, gossip websites say they've now been contacted by people offering to sell them pictures of Mila Kunis.

RankMyHack lets hackers compete

In recent months, long-time hackers have become just a little miffed with some of the new kids on the block and their automated DDoS attacks - script kiddies, they mutter, darkly.

On Anonymous and police brutality

An alleged case of police brutality in Fullerton, California has inspired the hacker group Anonymous to issue threats to the city’s public officials. But is the hacktivism the only way to get justice?

Alleged AT&T-iPad hacker wants a plea deal

Andrew Auernheimer is accused of hacking AT&T and stealing data belonging to 120,000 Apple iPad users. After allegedly tangling with the two corporate giants, he’s looking to cut a deal.

Most hacking attacks easily avoidable, says government report

Most of the last year's high profile hacking attacks could easily have been avoided, according to a Federal study.

Defcon trains child hackers

At the ripe old age of 19, Ryan Clearly, arrested in the UK last week over a series of high-profile hacks associated with LulzSec, is positively long in the tooth.

Anonymous accuses Sony of lying about PlayStation outage

After four days of outage, PlayStation has said that external hackers are responsible - but the prime suspect, Anonymous, has denied all knowledge and says Sony itself is probably to blame.

Cyberattacks endanger airlines more than terrorism, say experts

Cyberattacks now form the second biggest threat to aviation, according to Australian security researchers.

Hackers hijack medical server to play Black Ops

Some people, if they'd found they were able to break into a medical server containing confidential patient records, might consider blackmail. Not so the hackers of Seacoast Radiology's system - they used it to play Call of Duty: Black Ops instead.

Hacking a smartphone is easier than you think

When we think smartphone, we think: smart. When we think of someone who leaves the front door of their home with piles of financial and personal information laying about, we think: dumb.