Apple is looking to improve the security of their operating systems and have hired former Windows Vista hacker Kristin (Chris) Paget on as a "core operating system security researcher." More...
The FBI has now sent out a statement claim that there is "no evidence" that a hacker group managed to steal 12 million Apple UDID numbers from one of the agency's laptops. More...
According to several leading lights in cyber security, the United States Department of Defense could be quite poorly prepared for hacks and attacks from different parties. More...
A 10 year old girl who's also a hacker claims to have found an flaw that could effect some mobile games for the iOS and Android operating systems. More...
Sony has quite a bit of work on their hands trying to restore the PlayStation Network by the end of this week and dealing with a possible breach of customers' credit card details thanks to... More...
If you’ve been a casual defender of Wikileaks and a soldier on the front lines of Operation: Payback until now, and you don’t have the savvy or resources to use an anonymizing service to hide... More...
Twitter may be suffering from yet another embarrassing software security vulnerability, according to SearchEngineWatch.com. Apparently, if you use you Twitter credentials to log in to a third-party website, that site could gain access to your... More...
Yesterday, the Twitter-sphere was engorged with spam tweets produced by a significant security hole in cross-scripting capability that threw the service into total disarray. People were warned repeatedly to stay off the service’s main page,... More...
The Pirate Bay just can't catch a break these days. Fresh of the heels of more European regulatory action against their previous hosts, German private ISP Cyberbunker, the infamous torrent aggregation portal is facing a... More...
The many computer systems found within modern day cars are vulnerable to attack, according to a team of researchers from the University of California-San Diego and the University of Washington. Amongst other things, the researchers... More...
We reported a few weeks ago that a hacker going by the handle 'Kirllos' had managed to acquire the credentials of 1.5 million Facebook accounts and was selling them at unbelievably low prices in certain... More...
Computerworld reports that 1.5 million facebook accounts are up for sale by a hacker going by the moniker Kirllos. To be clear, that's .3% of the estimated 400 million total registered Facebook accounts. VeriSign's iDefense... More...
Microsoft is looking to design new anti-hacking mechanisms and "hack detection" technologies for future Microsoft products according to a recent job posting. The job posting, which has been removed (google cache), details a new opportunity in... More...
Gary McKinnon, a British hacker who is accused of hacking into secret military and NASA computers has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States. Appeals Gary McKinnon... More...
Jeff Moss (a.k.a. The Dark Tangent) is widely known for his yearly convention called Defcon, where hackers from around the globe meet in Las Vegas to perform certain tasks and win prizes. Jeff is... More...
As many as 100,000 websites have been destroyed by hackers targeting server virtualisation software HyperVM, which powers most virtual private server (VPS) hosting companies. Most of the VPS systems hosted by Vaserv, and its sister... More...
Branded by some as "hacktivism", the conflict between Israel and Palestine has spilled onto the web, with activists from both sides defacing websites, taking over computers and shutting down Facebook groups, according to a report... More...
A British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers lost a major court battle today and could be extradited to the United States within weeks. Gary McKinnon is alleged to have illegally accessed computers... More...
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to stand trial in the US. Gary McKinnon, 42, could face a life sentence if... More...
In what was described as the largest hacking scam in Canadian history, Quebec provincial police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and arrested 16 people between the ages of 17 and 26. The hacking... More...
An iPhone user by the name of drunknbass has succeeded in turning Apple Incorporated’s smartphone into a video camcorder. The application he has written allows the device to capture 2MP quality videos at 10 FPS... More...
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker. In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker... More...
If you had trouble accessing government websites in California a few days ago, don't worry, you weren't hallucinating: the federal government apparently briefly suspended the entire "ca.gov" domain after a hacker managed to insert redirects... More...
The same hacker who discovered a recently patched QuickTime flaw affecting the Firefox browser says he has found an equally serious flaw in Adobe Systems Incorporated's PDF file format. Using Adobe Reader 8.1 on Windows... More...
A hacker has found a way to crack digital rights management restrictions in major movies streamed by Netflix, allowing those with a valid account to save, copy and share the videos. Using only Internet Explorer,... More...
Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple has issued its first patch of the beta software: Safari 3.0.1, which fixes three flaws in the browser including security vulnerabilities. Although the issues found in the first... More...
The FBI has launched an investigation regarding a computer hacker accessing the Social Security numbers and personal information of 22,396 current or former students at the University of Missouri-Columbia who also worked at one of... More...
Right after Apple's release of a patch for 25 vulnerabilities in OS X, a hacker managed to break into a Mac by exposing a hole in Apple's browser Safari, winning a $10,000 prize as part... More...
A London man has lost his High Court Fight against extradition to the US. He allegedly carried out the "biggest military computer hack of all time". Gary McKinnon, of north London, is accused of gaining... More...
eBay has confirmed that, early on the morning of March 8 EST, an alleged Romanian hacker calling himself "Born_To_Scam_American_Guys" posted records for 15 eBay users on an eBay forum for between 40-60 minutes before the... More...
As the French presidential race came into full swing, a hacker stole sensitive data (including a list of the Jean-Marie Le Pen's backers) stored in the National Front party headquarters' database, according to police reports.... More...
A US man has pleaded guilty to charges of writing and distributing a Trojan horse designed to steal usernames and passwords. Richard C Honour, 31, faces a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000... More...
A hacker who goes by the handle "TheSpecialist," who was one of the first hackers to modify the Xbox 360 DVD drive firmware to play backup games, has released a tool that allows any Western... More...
According to Atlanta, Gerogia-based Exploit Prevention Labs, a multi-exploit hack pack was behind 70.9% of all Web-based attacks throughout December 2006. The kit includes up to a dozen different exploits, including several derived from the... More...
Proof-of-concept exploit code for a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions of Windows—including Vista—has been posted on a Russian hacker forum, forcing Microsoft to activate its emergency response process. Mike Reavey, operations manager of the... More...
A Romanian hacker has been charged with running amok on more than 150 US government computers. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania, allegedly launched attacks that disrupted the systems of NASA, the Energy Department, and... More...
The US request to extradite the British hacker accused of the "biggest military hack of all time" has been granted by the UK Home Secretary John Reid. Gary McKinnon, accused of breaking into US government... More...
A month after accusing the Motion Picture Association of America of conspiring to commit data theft, the operators of a file search engine presented more details regarding the alleged relationship between the MPAA and a... More...
Federal authorities arrested one man in Miami and another in Spokane, Wash., today in connection with what they said was a hacking scheme involving the resale of Internet telephone service. The suspects were said to... More...
Gary McKinnon, the UK's most notorious hacker, has come one step closer to a US trial after a judge suggested extradition today. The fourty-something computer enthusiast spent two years browsing the US Military's most top... More...
Apple goes mano y mano with both France and the RIAA and comes out on top. Also there are rumors that Windows Vista will be delayed again, but what does that really mean for consumers?... More...
An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the undefined undefined Google Desktop application to covertly hijack user information. Matan Gillon,... More...
According to Infoworld, Microsoft showed off the work it has done since Beta 1 of Internet Explorer 7 this week. At the Hack in the Box Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Microsoft... More...
Thanks to Inertia for sending this in. Computer users anxious about viruses and identity theft have a new reason to worry: hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your... More...
Securityfocus is reporting that a hacker known by the alias "Ethics" successfully penetrated T-Mobile's systems for at least a year. Twenty-one year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was charged last October after an elaborate sting between... More...
A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by... More...
A UK student who hacked into US Department of Energy computers responsible for US energy supplies and for the integrity and safety of US nuclear weapons has been sentenced to 200 hours community service. ... More...
A nationally known computer hacker is being sought on a federal arrest warrant stemming from a sealed complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday. Adrian Lamo, 22, has publicly... More...
A hacker group released code designed to exploit a widespread Windows flaw, paving the way for a major worm attack as soon as this weekend, security researchers warned. The warning came Friday,... More...
A French high school student is being investigated on suspicion of breaking into and defacing some 2,000 Web sites -- including that of the U.S. Navy, police said Thursday. The 17-year-old boy,... More...