hackers in news
RSS hackers in newsHackers breach Guardian Jobs site
News Personal details included in users' job applications may have been accessed by the hackers, according to an email sent to affected users by Guardian Jobs on Saturday. The Guardian Jobs site has been breached by... [26 Oct 2009]
'Wi-fi hack makes plan to ban file-sharers unfair'
News As a result, Heaney said, millions of people could potentially have their connections hijacked by hackers for the purposes of illegal file-sharing and could therefore risk having their internet access cut off unfairly. [19 Oct 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers are going in through the front door by exploiting security holes in systems for delivering ads. It happened just days ago to The New York... [16 Sep 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News A denial-of-service attack occurs when hackers overload a web service's infrastructure with data, making its servers slow to a crawl or crash altogether. Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed... [06 Aug 2009]
Optimistic CEOs must not neglect IT security
News Chief executives' definition of security, he added, is typically associated with hackers trying to steal company secrets, rather than a broader spectrum that includes disaster recovery, erroneous data input or... [03 Aug 2009]
Windows 7 leaked key confirmed by Microsoft
News In the meantime, this leaked key could still pose a big problem if the hackers are able to alter the ISO and sell it as counterfeit retailed package of the OS. Alex Kochis, Microsoft's director of Genuine Windows, posted... [03 Aug 2009]
MI5 plugs website flaw that left site open to hack attack
News The website suffered a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to inject code into the site and redirect users to malicious pages, MI5 admitted on Wednesday. MI5 has closed up a flaw on its... [30 Jul 2009]
Microsoft DirectX gets fix in Patch Tuesday
News The ActiveX control vulnerability was likely independently rediscovered by malicious hackers or leaked through the Microsoft Active Protection Program which the company uses to share early security information with... [10 Jul 2009]
Dear Google: 'Better protection please in Google Apps'
News If Google believes that encryption and protection from hackers is a choice that should be left up to users, the company must do a better job of informing them of the risks so that they are equipped to make this choice. [17 Jun 2009]
Porn site goes on Mac attack
News Hackers are deliberately planting malicious code on websites, and using social engineering tricks to fool you into installing it onto your computer. Security experts have discovered two new attacks targeting Mac users, a... [12 Jun 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News Moss's background as a computer hacker (known as 'Dark Tangent') and role as a luminary among young hackers who flock to Defcon in Las Vegas every summer might seem to make him an unusual choice to swear allegiance to... [08 Jun 2009]
Cloud computing security? It's all a bit hazy
News I'm getting very worried about it," he said, arguing that as we move to a world where the majority of computing power is housed in a small number of datacentres that we could be "facing a real danger that hackers would... [22 Apr 2009]
IT security still has "perilous gaps of risk": RSA
News Coviello argued that vendors need to work together better because hackers and fraudsters are already working in their own "fraud ecosystem" stuffed with innovation, and said hackers use an "amazingly... [22 Apr 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News The teen not only wasted the time of thousands of Twitter users and company engineers, Cluley said, but put Twitterers at risk of having their identities stolen or malware installed on their machines by financially motivated... [20 Apr 2009]
Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?
News The government has proposed adding chip and PIN capabilities to ID cards but questions remain over whether such a move would be beneficial - or even possible - at this late stage in the £4.7bn project. [15 Apr 2009]
