Windows Phone 7 hackers ChevronWP7 are <a href="http://www.chevronwp7.com/post/6629433362/announcing-chevronwp7-labs">soon to release a Microsoft-approved app</a> that allows users to install non-approved software. But that doesn't mean the group and the software giant have kissed and made up.
Keir Thomas | 19 Jun | Read more
A new U.S. military program shares classified information about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061411-despite-years-of-talk-utilities.html?hpg1=bn">cyber threats</a> with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday.
Tim Greene | 17 Jun | Read more
<a href="http://www.virginmedia.com">Virgin Media</a> has warned 1,500 customers that their PC has been infected by malware.
Anh Nguyen | 18 Jun | Read more
Security firm Symantec is warning that more people may end up like Bitcoin user "Allinvain" and find their Bitcoin digital wallets pilfered by malicious hackers.
Just three days after Microsoft patched 11 bugs in Internet Explorer (IE), hackers are exploiting one of those vulnerabilities, a security company said Friday.
Gregg Keizer | 18 Jun | Read more
Hewlett-Packard Co. has become the latest to add its name to the rapidly growing list of high-profile corporate hacking victims.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 Jun | Read more
A model of the Internet where the Pentagon can practice <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-cyberwar.html">cyberwar</a> games -- complete with software that mimics human behavior under varying military threat levels -- is due to be up and running by this time next year, according to a published report.
Tim Greene | 18 Jun | Read more
Hacker collective or, as they put it, "those evil bastards from Twitter" LulzSec has issued an official statement attempting to explain its actions. You can read it <a href="http://pastebin.com/HZtH523f">here</a>.
Pete Davison | 18 Jun | Read more
Once again, Facebook has messed with users' privacy in the name of a new feature.
Jared Newman | 18 Jun | Read more
This week has seen a number of incidents related to hacking and the unauthorized access of information. In some cases, personal information has been compromised, in others, system administrators were able to take their networks down before anything was badly damaged. Following the recent PSN hack, which brought down Sony's systems for over a month and put many users' payment information and personal details at risk, the public eye is very much on hacker activity -- so here's a summary of what's been going on this week.
Pete Davison | 18 Jun | Read more
Fresh from attacking the CIA's CIO.gov website with a denial of service (DOS) attack, hacker group LulzSec has struck again with a leaked list of 62,000 email addresses and passwords, including some harvested from Australian organisations.
Hamish Barwick | 17 Jun | Read more
Hollywood may have <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/12/19/riaa-lawsuits-2/">stopped its massive litigation campaigns</a> against illegal file swappers in 2008, but the piracy lawsuits are still flying. Now teams of lawyers working for certain small businesses are going after illegal file swappers. These businesses, often referred to as "copyright trolls," are attempting to turn the <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/201335/filesharing_suits_about_fear_not_cash.html">threat of suing pirates</a> into a profitable cottage industry.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 17 Jun | Read more
Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission said that 51 websites in the .gov.my domain were attacked beginning late Wednesday, and that 41 of the sites suffered various levels of disruption.
John Ribeiro | 16 Jun | Read more
Orlando, Florida's city Website could be the latest target of hackers at noon EST Thursday if Web chatter between hackers online turns out to be true. Plans of the alleged attack are being circulated on Anonymous-related IRC channels. Anonymous is a group of loosely affiliated hackers that work together to coordinate hack attacks.
Only hours after embarrassing the CIA by downing its website, hacking jokesters LulzSec have issued another self-declared indictment of the Internet's woeful security, leaking a database of 62,000 stolen passwords and user names.
John E Dunn | 17 Jun | Read more
Despite lingering privacy concerns, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is plowing ahead with plans to build a massive centralized database containing detailed healthcare claims information on millions of federal employees and their families.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Jun | Read more
LulzSec has been making headlines on a virtually daily basis for a month or so now. The hacker group has compromised servers and exposed sensitive information from targets ranging from Sony, to PBS, to the FBI, and has even set up a hotline to take requests for which sites to attack next. The irony of the LulzSec hacks, though, is that the group is doing us all a favour whether they intend to, or not.
Tony Bradley | 17 Jun | Read more
They say they're doing it for the "lulz," but there comes a point when it's no longer funny. The latest LulzSec targets are the CIA as well as 62,000 e-mail account holders using web-based services, including Comcast, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail.
With all of the recent <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/052911-lockheed-martin-acknowledges-significant.html">security problems</a> around <a href="http://www.rsa.com/node.aspx?id=3891">RSA's SecurID</a> two-factor authentication technology as a backdrop, Cisco today made it clear that it's still a major supporter of SecurID by including the two-factor authentication token as a main security component in what Cisco calls its "PCI 2.0 Architecture" of assembled <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a>, EMC, RSA, VMware and HyTrust products.
Ellen Messmer | 16 Jun | Read more
The CIA's main public facing web site appears to have been taken down by hacking group LulzSec earlier today.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 16 Jun | Read more