The antics by LulzSec over the past few weeks may have attracted a bit too much attention, at least for those involved in the group. Their veil of anonymity and fearlessness may be finally crumbling.... More...
Sony has been caught on the wrong end of a hackers agenda for the past few weeks. First their entire PlayStation Network was hacked with information stolen and quickly leaked to the Internet, then when... More...
The detective agency used by the Motion Picture Association of America has attempted to lure file sharers to a fake download site that installs spyware on their PCs. The MiiVi.com site offered downloads of complete... More...
Los Angeles Splash Magazines Worldwide, which publishes local versions of its magazines under URLs like NYCSplash.com and LASplash.com, has exposed the personal e-mail addresses and passwords for hundreds of its subscribers. The list of e-mail... More...
The credit and debit card data of a large number of shoppers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada, and possibly in the U.K and Ireland, may have been compromised as the result of a... More...
A pay-for-votes service has been launched that allows publishers to promote their submissions on Digg.com. User/Submitter touts itself as a site "where Digg submitters pay for Digg users to promote their stories, and where... More...
What a week. First the pictures of the current Xbox 360 Development Kit, then a photo of the Xbox 360 taken from an odd angle and today the ATI patent for the embedded video RAM... More...
A wireless LAN hardware company is set to publicize a RADIUS server security hack that can thwart the recently ratified 802.11i protocol and any WLAN infrastructure that keeps encryption keys housed in access points rather... More...
Government agencies are spending billions on technology for homeland security, yet system vulnerabilities are increasing exponentially, agency representatives told a Congressional panel this week. Incidents due to security weaknesses in computer systems in the U.S.... More...
Official website leaks line-up of over 100 PS2 titles for next month's huge games extravaganza Sony have launched their official E3 website and, while the site so far only mentions a handful of... More...
The Sims returns to consoles... and it's left the 'burbs for the big city. Word! Developers Maxis have leaked early details of the sequel to The Sims Bustin' Out - and, in contrast... More...
Cisco faced its second serious WLAN security threat this week when a network and security analyst released a tool that attacks the company's proprietary Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) wireless authentication system. Joshua... More...
NVIDIA's Main Partner Reportedly Making ATI-based PCI Express Cards While the fact that one of the main add-in card partners of NVIDIA Corporation, Microstar International, was going to include at least some... More...
Software group opens up hidden interfaces only seen by Microsoft developers Secret software interfaces hidden in Windows and previously only available to Microsoft's own developers have been exposed to the wider developer... More...
Thanks aquadex from our BPN Forum... Now that we've all had the opportunity to play with Windows 2003 for a few weeks now, anyone ready for a real desktop operating system? Well its... More...
The accounts of millions of AOL subscribers were jeopardized this week due to a serious flaw in the company's Web-based mail system. The vulnerability stems from an error in one of AOL's... More...
Amd says the integrated memory controller on its forthcoming Hammer chips can be turned off, allowing the chips to use the controller of its accompanying chipset if necessary. Thus, inital chip shipments will work with... More...
When retired press photographer Mike Kirkup purchased two Power Mac 720's at auction, for just £12 each, he was stunned to discover when he turned on the Power Mac's what he found; telephone numbers for... More...
It has been known for a while that IBM had connections with the Nazis before World War 2 but today it has been announced that there is a book coming out that claims they were... More...
Thanks to Neo1980 for posting this in our Back Page News on the forums and Michael Griffith for emailing us. Feb. 7 — A database with thousands of records detailing potential... More...
Microsoft have released a security bulletin (but no patch!) to inform users that a vunerability exists in IE 5.5 and 6.0 which can allow the exposure and altering of data in cookies. ... More...
Chris Pirillo has posted on todays Windows Daily about 2 bugs that are currently affecting The Slide Show wizard & Timershot (part of the XP Powertoys set) We will keep you updated when Microsoft decide... More...
A computer security researcher known for discovering serious leaks of private information at major U.S. companies has found one at Microsoft Corp.'s Web site. The researcher showed MSNBC.com several screen shots he had taken revealing... More...