google hacking
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Looking ahead five years, "I'm thinking the attack is going to be on cloud computing centres," said Parrella, chief of the computer hacking and intellectual property unit at the US Attorney's Office. That model of... [13 Jul 2009]
Is this the largest security breach ever?
News About 14 per cent of the breaches were due to hacking, the report said. G is for Google In a statement Heartland said the breach occurred last year but that it found evidence of the intrusion last week... [21 Jan 2009]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News Online identity theft dropped by eight per cent to affect just over 80,000 victims, while computer misuse offences - such as hacking and the spreading of viruses - affected 132,800 people compared to 144,500 in 2006, and... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News Internet warfare expert Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisory Group, said Chinese hackers were "vacuuming up the internet for security and economic secrets" - citing examples such as the Titan Rain... [29 Oct 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News According to Simmonds, computer criminals are in a far more lucrative trade than security professionals, and are in a position to fund people's computer science courses at university in return for hacking expertise after... [23 Jun 2008]
Hacking 'goodies' get industry body
News G is for Google An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested. The Council of Registered Ethical... [25 Apr 2008]
Police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News Hartman said that with online scams worth billions of dollars and growth of state-sponsored hacking of corporate and national infrastructure, the need for specialised units has never been greater. G is for... [14 Feb 2008]
Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest
News Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The hacking competition at CanSecWest 2008 will pit the... [08 Feb 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News Clayton added specific programs, such as penetration testing tools, were designed with the express purpose of hacking into systems and that the distribution of such tools would be limited by UK law. G is for... [04 Jan 2008]
Google Hacks: Build a Google Screensaver
White Paper Along with desktop backgrounds, screensavers have always been a feature of personal computers that people feel comfortable changing, tweaking, fiddling with, and hacking for fun. And by scripting Google... [10 Oct 2007]
Gmail cookie flaw 'puts email at risk'
News Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming emails from Google Gmail users. Pure Hacking security researcher... [27 Sep 2007]
TorrentSpy out of luck in email hacking suit
News Anderson allegedly "hacked" into TorrentSpy's email system and rigged it so that "every incoming and outgoing email message would also be copied and forwarded to his anonymous Google email account", records show. [29 Aug 2007]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News During his presentation, 'Hacking Leopard: Tools and techniques for attacking the newest Mac OS X', at the recent Black Hat Briefings, Miller said that for some reason the Mac OS has more than 50-plus 'Suid' root programs. [14 Aug 2007]
Foundstone SiteDigger 2.0: Identifying Information Leakage Using Search Engines
White Paper Recently, growing attention of hacking with Google, known as "Google hacking" has emerged and lists of signatures continue to appear on security sites in an intriguing... [01 Aug 2007]
Three charged over online stock scam
News US federal authorities have charged three men with hacking into online brokerage accounts and using the proceeds to manipulate the stock of Google, Sun Microsystems and 12 other companies. Indian... [14 Mar 2007]