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Article | 29/03/2011 Hackers hit Gillard, ministers' computers
The parliamentary computers of the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and at least two other senior ministers are suspected of being hacked.
Article | 18/03/2011 EMC: RSA SecurID info swiped via sophisticated hack attack
EMC issued a warning today that hackers have stolen information about its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication that could be used by cybercriminals t...
Article | 14/12/2010 Website attackers could be easily traced, researchers say
People using a tool to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other websites in support of WikiLeaks can easily be traced, accor...
Article | 14/12/2010 Gawker Media hacked, warns users to change passwords
E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weeke...
Article | 6/08/2010 Hackers find a new target in payroll processing
Depression-era bank robber Slick Willie Sutton is famous for saying that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is." If he were around today,...
Article | 17/05/2010 Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer
A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital.
Article | 21/04/2010 Drug-dealing spammers hit Gmail accounts
Google is investigating a growing number of reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Gmail accounts and then using them to send spam messages...
Article | 20/04/2010 Network Solutions sites hacked again
A week after Web hosting company Network Solutions dealt with a large-scale infection of WordPress-driven blogs, the company acknowledged that other s...
Article | 20/04/2010 Your BlackBerry's dirty little security secret
Tyler Shields, senior member of the Veracode Research Lab, spends a lot of time <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/podcast/533263">picking apart those ...
Article | 12/04/2010 Hacker conference to address emerging Web threats
The Black Hat security conference will kick off next week in Barcelona, with training sessions and briefings from some of the most talented security r...
Article | 31/03/2010 E-mail accounts of foreign journalists in China hacked
The e-mail accounts of eight foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan were hacked recently, leading Yahoo to suspend several of the accounts la...
Article | 19/03/2010 IE8, iPhone will fall first day of hacking contest, predicts organizer
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, not Apple's Safari, will be the first browser to fall in next week's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer...
Article | 15/03/2010 Iran hacks opposition Web sites, arrests cyber activists
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps hacked into 29 Web sites affiliated with U.S. espionage networks, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency repo...
Article | 22/02/2010 Chinese schools deny role in Google hack
Two schools in China where computers were reportedly linked to cyberattacks on Google and other companies have denied involvement in the hack, Chinese...
Article | 15/02/2010 Criminal hacker 'Iceman' gets 13 years
A former security researcher turned criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for hacking into financial institutions and steal...

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