Anonymous supporters claim NBC News Twitter hack
Hackers calling themselves the Script Kiddies took control of the NBC News Twitter account on Friday afternoon and used it to send out a series of hoax Twitter messages claiming there was a repeat...
View ArticleWith help from Intel, McAfee links security to the chip
Nearly seven months after Intel shelled out $US7.68 billion for antivirus vendor McAfee, the two companies are offering a glimpse of their future.
View ArticleU.S. launches criminal probe into eBay-Craigslist dispute
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether eBay executives broke the law and stole trade secrets while sitting on the board of Craigslist.org.
View ArticleSAP pays $20M to settle criminal charges in Oracle case
SAP has agreed to pay just over $US20 million to settle a criminal case brought against its TomorrowNow subsidiary.
View ArticleJudge strikes part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google
A federal judge threw out a small part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google on Thursday but allowed the bulk of the case to proceed.
View ArticleMan stole data from U.S. service members via P2P
A California man who dug up sensitive information belonging to U.S. service members on peer-to-peer networks, and then used it to order iPods, cameras, and even washing machines from an online store,...
View ArticleAlleged LulzSec Sony hacker arrested
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Phoenix student, claiming that he is one of the LulzSec hackers responsible for a database attack on Sony Pictures computers that claimed more...
View ArticleMySQL.com hacked to serve malware
The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors Monday.
View ArticleStriking a domain provider, Microsoft kills off a botnet
Microsoft has opened a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet and taking offline a provider of free...
View ArticleOn the front line against the next Stuxnet
Something has gone terribly wrong on the plant floor at ACME Specialty Chemical International Inc.
View ArticleFirefox advises users to disable McAfee plugin
It's the last thing McAfee would want users to hear about one of its products, but the Firefox browser is advising users to disable McAfee's ScriptScan software, saying that it could cause "stability...
View ArticleFrom friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in
As news of the death of Steve Jobs spread around the Internet, the tributes came pouring in Wednesday, crediting Apple's co-founder and chairman with -- more than once -- changing computing as we know it.
View Article111 arrested in massive ID theft bust
Prosecutors call it the biggest identity theft bust in US history. On Friday, 111 bank tellers, retail workers, waiters and alleged criminals were charged with running a credit-card-stealing...
View ArticleMan charged with hacking Scarlett Johansson, other celebs
A 35-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he broke into the email accounts of numerous Hollywood celebrities and stole private photographs and correspondence.
View ArticleAfter Stuxnet, a rush to find bugs in industrial systems
Kevin Finisterre isn't the type of person you expect to see in a nuclear power plant. With a beach ball-sized Afro, aviator sunglasses and a self-described "swagger," he looks more like Clarence...
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