Displaying items by tag: hacking

Tech titans Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Yahoo! have each provided additional data on government requests for user account data from the US government, after President Obama changed the reporting regulations.

Victoria's public transport system is under attack but not from the opposition or commuters - a Melbourne schoolboy has exposed a security flaw in its website.

Thirteen members of the hacking collective Anonymous have pleaded guilty to disabling Paypal's servers in 2010, after the payment site severed ties with Wikileaks.

Chinese hackers attacked five European ministries before the G20 summit in September, according to new research.

MYOB and Millipede have taken out Ford Australia’s first SYNC AppLink Hackathon, held last week in Melbourne.

A hacker claiming to be an Indonesian member of the loose hacking collective Anonymous has claimed responbility for attacks on the AFP and Reserve Bank websites, which were down for a number of hours this morning.

Australia's Secret Intelligence Service has come under attack from Indonesian hackers, and its website remains down.

A young Australian entrepeneur has lost more than $1 million in Bitcoins in what is possibly the biggest online theft in history.

Queensland premier Campbell Newman has had his mobile phone number and home address leaked online amid bitter controversy over his new "fascist" anti-biking laws.

One plucky hacker has earned  a massive payday courtesy of a bug in Microsoft's Windows OS, pocketing a $100,000 reward for discovering a critical vulnerability.

A Danish-based startup is taking a fresh approach to security testing, recruiting white hat hackers to test vulnerabilities for a reward.

One of the biggest unknowns around the new iPhone 5s was how long it would take for the fingerprint scanner to be hacked. Well, as it turns out, not long at all, if new reports are accurate.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has revealed she feared being jailed for treason if she refused to comply with NSA data requests, while Mark Zuckerberg said the NSA "blew it."

Our inboxes are often clogged with offers for cheap viagra, penis enhancers, dating websites and get rich quick schemes. But who are the people actually behind the spam we deal with every day?

The so-called Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has taken down The New York Times website by attacking it through Australian company Melbourne IT, its domain name registrar. It has also attacked Twitter.

Facebook may not be willing to compensate the Palestinian researcher who found a bug in its systems, but the Internet community definitely is.

What do you do when Facebook's security team ignores a bug you've found? Post it to Mark Zuckerberg's wall, of course.

Twitter is ramping up its security even further, today launching an iOS and Android app update with 'login verification'.

Box office king Will Smith made waves at Defcon on the weekend, after he made a surprise appearance to do research for an upcoming movie.

A group of Chinese hackers, possibly linked to the Chinese Army, have been caught red handed breaking into a fake US water system.