hacking

Hackers Use Social Tricks To Get Bank Passwords

Auditors at Trace Security used social engineering tactics to obtain sensitive information and infect systems

13 years ago

China Bites Back And Links US to Cyber-Attacks

A Chinese report turns the tables and links US IP addresses to increased cyber-attacks on its websites

13 years ago

Black Hat Experts To Hack Chrome OS, Cars, Printers

At the Black Hat security conference this week researchers will look at a wide range of attacks

13 years ago

Korean Social Network Suffers Massive Breach

Three quarters of the South Korean population may have had their personal details hacked

13 years ago

Plenty Of Rare Bits Will Be Pulled Out Of The Black Hat Conference

This week, the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas will show how we all gamble with our security right across…

13 years ago

Phone ‘Hacking’ Scandal Could Get Wrong Answers

Bad journalism is bad journalism, and voicemail access is not hacking. Watch out for the results of a moral panic,…

13 years ago

Data Breach At Washington Post Exposes Private Data

More than a million email addresses and user IDs were compromised, after a hack at the Washington Post

13 years ago

Malware Takes Aim At BitCoins

Attackers are creating the first rudimentary Trojans designed to steal the BitCoin virtual currency from users

13 years ago

Lulzsec Rejoins Anonymous

The members of Lulzsec say they are continuing their activities as part of the wider Anonymous hacking group

14 years ago

Lulzsec Leaks Classified Arizona Police Documents

Hacktivist group Lulzsec has infiltrated the Arizona Department of Public Safety and published peronal details

14 years ago

Alleged Hacker Remanded In Custody

Police continue to question alleged hacker, 19-year-old Ryan Cleary; Lulzsec says he is not one of them

14 years ago

Lulzsec Publishes 62,000 Passwords

The hacker group Lulzsec's latest strike has been aimed at individual users, resulting in consumer fraud

14 years ago

Security Summed Up: Gullible Users Need Protection

Hackers embarrass the companies they exploit but the victims who need better protection are their customers, says Eric Doyle

14 years ago

Spanish Police Website Hacked By ‘Anonymous’

The Anonymous group has carried out a DDoS attack in response to the arrest of three alleged hackers in Spain

14 years ago

Analysts: Free Zeus Kit Will Mean More Malware

The release of Zeus' source code means more cyber-criminals will soon be using the infamous banking Trojan

14 years ago

Security Depends On The Devious Human Touch

Hacking has become a dark, heavily financed force and digital defences alone are no longer enough to hold it at…

14 years ago

Report: Corporate Hacking More Lucrative Than Ever

A McAfee report has found that cyber-criminals are profiting more from IP theft, and stealing trade secrets

14 years ago

Who Is Carrying The Can For Cloud Data Security?

Information Risk Management is being passed around like a game of pass the parcel using a time bomb. Where does…

14 years ago

China Denies Gmail Interference Claim

The Chinese government has denied it is preventing Chinese users from accessing Gmail accounts

14 years ago

Earthquake News Attracts Search Engine Hackers

Criminals have moved quickly to profit from the Japan disaster using black-hat search-engine manipulation techniques

14 years ago

Encryption’s Weak Point Exploited By Data Scraping

Pervasive Data Scraping attacks encrypted data at its weak point and is increasingly being used by hackers

14 years ago

British Hacker Faces Jail After £7.5 Million Heist

A hacker has admitted to hacking into virtual gambling servers and making off with billions of gambling chips

14 years ago

Coordinated Cyber-Attack Could Create ‘Perfect Storm’

A war fought entirely in cyberspace is unlikely but governments must boost their defences, says the OECD

14 years ago

Hacktivist Group Attacks Nation States

The ongoing cyberwar over Wikileaks has taken a new turn with individual countries now being attacked

14 years ago

Husband Faces Jail For Stealing His Wife’s Emails

A man may spend five-years in prison under US anti-hacking laws for reading his wife's emails without permission

14 years ago

Half Of UK Wi-Fi Networks Vulnerable To Hacking

Nearly half of private Wi-Fi networks do not have sufficient security on them to prevent hackers from stealing data, a…

14 years ago

US Cable Hackers Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison

Three hackers have been jailed for redirecting traffic from the website of cable operator Comcast

14 years ago

VOIP Hacker Gets Ten Years In Jail

US authorities have for for the first time given a prison sentence to a man charged with hacking voice-over-IP

14 years ago