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Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The chat window is displayed if the log-in credentials are typed in or if any other link on the page is clicked, said Sean Brady, an online fraud expert at RSA. Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading... [18 Sep 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News Last month, a computer forensics expert revealed he had discovered malware on ATMs that allowed criminals to steal account data and PINs. Things were more dramatic in 2001, when the FBI took Russian crypto... [02 Jul 2009]
'We'll block police home PC hacks': Security vendors
News Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton told ZDNet UK on Monday that UK police were most likely to hack into computers by entering a premises and installing a keylogger on the target system. [09 Jan 2009]
Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs
News According to Richard Clayton, a Cambridge University computer security expert, it has been legal for the police to hack into suspect systems without a warrant since 1995, when a 1994 amendment of the... [05 Jan 2009]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News UK shoppers credit card details could be at risk from the same wireless hack technique that snared more than 40 million people's details in the US, according to security experts. Andrew Moloney, security... [06 Aug 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News Gatford identified wi-fi as being a technology ripe to hack the iPhone, and said its exploitation for malicious purposes would only continue to grow: "Wi-fi spots aren't encrypted .nor is a great amount of the... [12 Jun 2008]
Apple patches up Safari
News The company released the patches this week after a number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser recently, including one which allowed a security expert to take control of a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest... [18 Apr 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News Guidelines published this week by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on how to interpret amendments to the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) have been branded "confused" by a renowned security expert. Security from A to Z [04 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment For optimum safety, run a public and private network on two different channels.of the time people are only trying to hack your wifi to get on the internet, so why not give them what they want and relax? [11 Oct 2007]
Did Scotland Yard 'hack' Downing Street computers?
News However, a report in the News of the World claims Downing Street gave detectives permission to send in an independent IT forensics expert to examine computers after police received information from a "mole" about... [22 Jan 2007]
Google search apps packing 'phishing flaw'
News Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer at WhiteHat Security, which specialises in web application flaws and protection, said: "This particular vulnerability is clever because of the encoding hack. [28 Nov 2006]
Yahoo! dating site has security issues
News The weakness weighs in low on the risk scale; it involves more effort than the average hack. A famous example is the hack on Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick phone earlier this year. plans to tighten... [21 Dec 2005]
Ecommerce sites panned for lack of security testing
News Newman walked silicon.com through a very basic 'hack' which simply involves changing cookies to access any number of customers' details on one ecommerce website. While sophisticated hackers might always find a way into a... [20 May 2005]
Tsunami charity website 'hack' trial drags on
News At his first appearance at Horseferry Road Magistrates court in London back in February, Cuthbert pleaded not guilty and was released on unconditional bail until April pending submission to the court of a report by an IT security... [17 May 2005]
Man pleads not guilty to Tsunami charity website hack
News A London man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to hack into a charity website set up to raise money for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. The alleged hack was detected immediately and... [17 Feb 2005]
