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Microsoft site hacked
Blog According to Techsploder blog, the Microsoft Internet Explorer administration site got hacked over the weekend. See the screen shot here.
[April 30, 2007, 13:33]
Pentagon hacked
Blog According to various news reports, including the BBC and Time, the Penatgon was hacked on Wednesday, resulting in Pentagon email being suspended. Elements of the.unclassified email system were taken offline yesterday afternoon due to a detected...
[June 22, 2007, 11:10]
Kaspersky websites hacked while being built
Blog Russian security vendor Kaspersky's nascent Malaysian website has been hacked and defaced. According to security site Zone-H.org, Kaspersky's website and online shop, which are under construction, were hacked into on Saturday by a hacker calling...
[July 22, 2008, 16:33]
Bill website hacked
Blog I think the combination of "website", "hacked" and "malicious code" in the same sentence flummoxed them. Security company Websense is reporting that the official website for ITV police drama The Bill has been compromised by hackers.
[August 30, 2007, 17:04]
ATM hacked with MP3 player
Blog It seems that it’s not only Microsoft that has seized on the cash making potential of the MP3 player (the Redmond giant launched its Zune player this week). A man has been sentenced to 32 months behind bars for cracking into ATM machines using an...
[November 15, 2006, 13:43]
Guardian UK Jobs site hacked, user data breached
Blog The Guardian Jobs website has come under attack from a 'sophisticated and deliberate hack' that has exposed sensitive data, according to an email sent to affected users on Saturday. The breach is related to data submitted by people who have applied...
[October 25, 2009, 0:12]
Does TwitterGate point towards bigger Cloud security issues?
Blog Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’ Google Apps account getting hacked has got a lot of coverage this week. First off, let’s be clear, it was not Twitter the Application that was hacked in this affair, but Twitter the Staff -- it was actually...
[July 17, 2009, 10:50]
Last weeks lesson: IE only web sites are a very bad thing.
Blog The recent vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), followed by the rapid spread of the exploit mostly via hacked web sites led to most experts, myself included in full BBC media-tart mode, to advise not to use IE until it is patched which...
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
Twitter hackers attack Miley Cyrus with sex slurs
Blog Now it seems she's been hacked again - but this time it's her Twitter account that has been compromised. Of course, Miley Cyrus is far from the first celebrity to have had her Twitter updates hacked by cybercriminals.
[February 17, 2009, 17:03]
When data is not the ultimate hacker target
Blog The fact that a US water utility was hacked last week is far from headline news, but what struck a chord here in London was the fact that the hackers were not trying to view, or steal, the company's data.
[November 2, 2006, 11:12]
Android devs less than gruntled
Blog Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community.
[August 14, 2008, 12:56]
DA charges 17-year-old with AOL hack
Blog According to an IDG article, AOL systems have allegedly been hacked and infected by a 17-year-old. The District Attorney's office has charged a 17-year-old boy with computer tampering, computer trespass, and criminal possession of computer material.
[April 30, 2007, 13:44]
Thumbscrew Approach To Secure Email
Blog Recent revelations that a BBC mailing list had been hacked and the users on the list spammed with scams and/or computer viruses, highlighted the dangers that spam poses modern companies. While it is likely that many of the people who signed up to...
[October 2, 2008, 17:17]
Online backup insecure, says Heise
Blog An undisclosed Heise employee hacked into some online backup services by intercepting the connection between client and the backup server, bypassing the encryption used. Some online backup services are easily fooled, according to the folks over at...
[May 29, 2008, 17:25]
Business Bloggers Leave Blogs Open To Hackers
Blog Corporate bloggers need to pay as much attention to the security of their blogs as they do in writing them, to avoid being hacked. The two main threats bloggers face are comment spam and SQL injection attacks.
[November 10, 2008, 7:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You cobbled together the kit, frequently made up from various bits of hacked-about government surplus gear costing three shillings and thruppence, took it out to some featureless field just outside your target town, ran the aerial into the trees...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
The Dangers of Being A Skype Development Partner
Blog Skype has long shown their contempt and complete disregard for their customers by refusing to provide "Customer Support", blocking paid accounts without notice and not answering queries, blaming the user when an account is hacked and money is...
[January 8, 2009, 8:24]
Alleged teen hacker could get 38 years
Blog Prosecutors allege that Omar Khan hacked into his school computers in Orange County using his teachers' passwords to alter his grades, changing one from an F to an A. A teenager who has been accused of hacking into his school systems to change his...
[June 23, 2008, 13:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog His defence -- that someone else hacked into his computer, took it over and used it for the attack -- clearly raised enough doubt in the minds of the jury to get him off the hook. Friday 17/10/2003 Hot news from Southwark Court!
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But I do have some sympathy for the woman, following today's startling revelations that her Sidekick has been hacked and its contents dispersed to the cyberwolves. Monday 21/2/2005 I'm not Paris Hilton.
[February 25, 2005, 17:10]
