Computer Security News

Hackers have once again turned to cracking iTunes accounts to obtain a ton of content paid content and leave you with the bill.

With rapper KRS-One's now all-too-familiar "Sound of Da Police" music video intermittently popping up, Boston Police officers satirically discuss the "emotional trauma" they felt after the police department's website, BPDNews.com , was hacked last Friday , in a light-hearted, video comeback of sorts at the hacking group "Anonymous." "Normally, I ... (more)

Hackers claimed to have stolen internal data from Apple supplier Foxconn, and leaked the information online, in response to media reports of poor working conditions at the electronics manufacturer's factories in China.

Don't miss our 3rd annual HITB Security Conference in Europe featuring keynote speakers Bruce Schneier and Andy Ellis ! Politics, rather than good old-fashioned theft, is increasingly the motivation of malicious hackers who attack websites using DDoS techniques.

NEW SETTLEMENTS: Nine more phone hacking lawsuits against Rupert Murdoch's News International have been settled, including a case brought by comedian Steve Coogan.

MOSCOW: A pro-Kremlin youth group runs a network of internet trolls, seeks to buy flattering coverage of Vladimir Putin and hatches plans to discredit opposition activists and media, according to private emails allegedly hacked by a group calling itself the Russian arm of Anonymous.

A Romanian citizen faces federal charges for allegedly hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena in an attack that caused more than $500,000 in damage, prosecutors said today.

Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne suffered "mental harm and distress" after his phone messages were hacked by the News of the World, the High Court has been told.

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is "unable to control the terror that consumes his every waking moment" as he fights extradition to the US, his mother said.

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online.

Users have claimed on customer forums that their iTunes store credit or gift cards have been spend using their PayPal accounts fraudulently by others.

After the flaw was discovered user "Gl0we" on the social news website Reddit posted this image, claiming it took less that 2 minutes to create from cameras they had found to be exposed.

PC World - Hacktivism has replaced financial gain as the prime motivator for disrupting a website's operation with traffic with a Distributed Denial of Service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks, a network security company in Chelmsford, Mass.

James Harding, editor of the Times, at court in London where he was giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry.

Hackers broke into the Dallas Police Department's website over the weekend and stole sensitive information -- including the usernames and passwords of some officers.

Did Chinese cyber spying cause the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's cost spikes and production delays? That's the question Pentagon budget officials are asking according to Aviation Week.

Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the its flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening.

Don't miss our 3rd annual HITB Security Conference in Europe featuring keynote speakers Bruce Schneier and Andy Ellis ! Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned.

One afternoon recently, a hacker took a tour of a dozen conference rooms around the globe via equipment that most every company has in those rooms: videoconferencing equipment.

Network World - The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats.