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Hackers are increasingly targeting law firms and public relations companies with a sophisticated e-mail scheme that breaks into their computer networks to steal sensitive data, often linked to large corporate clients doing business overseas.
Federal authorities say they've cracked a sophisticated computer hacking ring that stole more than $9 million within 12 hours last November, securing indictments against eight people from Russia, Estonia and Moldova.
A powerful new type of Internet attack works like a telephone tap, except operates between computers and Web sites they trust.
A security guard is accused of hacking into computers at a Dallas medical clinic where he worked in hopes of launching a massive computer attack before or on July 4.
Hackers have broadcast bogus information about celebrities including Britney Spears and Ellen DeGeneres after breaking into their Twitpic accounts.
For about 90 minutes Wednesday, visitors to the Oregon University System's Web site found themselves taken for a ride they didn't ask for. They were redirected to another site under the control of a hacker, who posted an 89-word screed criticizing the protests in Iran.
T-Mobile USA Inc. said Tuesday that it did not suffer a security breach after a hacker claimed this weekend to have accessed the company's servers.
Cyber hackers nearly two years ago breached a high-tech jet fighter program developed for the Pentagon by Lockheed Martin Corp., but classified information was not compromised, a senior defense official said Tuesday.
Spies hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service, exposing potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities in key pieces of national infrastructure, a former U.S. government official said Wednesday.
Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public Wi-Fi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.
One of the biggest problems with the so-called Web 2.0 movement has been its encouragement of oversharing — which often means underestimating security risks. Adding doodads of varying quality to a home page can add a lot of pizazz, but can also be fraught with danger, since they can open a door for hackers.
Multiple congressional computers have been hacked by people working from inside China, lawmakers said Wednesday, suggesting the Chinese were seeking lists of dissidents.
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday.
China denied accusations by two U.S. lawmakers that it hacked into congressional computers, saying Thursday that as a developing country it wasn't capable of sophisticated cybercrime.
U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try to hack into Commerce computers, officials and industry experts told The Associated Press.
A common new technology for monitoring defibrillators is vulnerable to hacking and even to reprogramming that could stop the devices from delivering a lifesaving shock, according to research to be released Wednesday.
When a small padlock appears in the corner of your Web browser's address bar or the entire bar turns green, it seems like a powerful signal you're safe to proceed.
It's called "Google hacking" — a slick data-mining technique used by the Internet's cops and crooks alike to unearth sensitive material mistakenly posted to public Web sites.
Want to break into a computer's encrypted hard drive? Just blast the machine's memory chip with a burst of cold air.
The Homeland Security Department improperly disclosed details about a serious threat to the U.S. electrical grid to industry researchers just days after it produced a video showing simulated hackers remotely seizing control over a $1 million diesel-electric generator.
Terrorists and other criminals could exploit a newly discovered software flaw to hijack massive computer systems used to control critical infrastructure like oil refineries, power plants and factories, a researcher said Saturday.
Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.
Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files releasedThe details on this are still sketchy, we'll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown.
Lazy Workers May Be Deemed HackersThe test is no longer whether you "broke into" a computer, or "stole" information. Any use of a computer in excess of what you have been told you are allowed to do becomes a crime.
"Anonymous" Declares War on Australia Over Internet FilteringHackers identifying themselves as "Anonymous" launched a denial-of-service attack Wednesday against a web site for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to protest a government proposal to filter internet content, according to the Australian Associated Press.
Services' E-Mail Hacking Illegal, but Officials Need More Than That to ProsecuteWhen Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com.
New breed of spycams pose threat to privacy - cyber spying boosted by WiFi camerasA FEW YEARS AGO a security expert, enraged at discovering that his PC had been hacked, managed to trace the intruder’s computer and take remote control of it.
Hacking for Mother Russia | RussiaThe attack on the Russian-speaking Georgian blogger who calls himself Cyxymu, or Georgi (interviewed here by my Faster Times colleague Will Dunbar) was, by the standards of previous episodes, small-scale and isolated.
Police Woman Fights Quantum Hacking And CrackingQuantum computers not just a pipe dream. The new computer threat on the horizon that needs our complete attention.
UK's unhackable national ID card hackedThe newspaper hired computer expert Adam Laurie to test the security that protects the information embedded in the chip on the card.
Hacker hits Dutch sites with anti-Wilders slogansA Turkish hacker has defaced dozens of Dutch websites with pro-Islamic slogans and pictures of right-wing politician Geert Wilders edited to make him look like a monkey, a website that tracks hackers said.
Humane python killing urged by PETAA national animal rights group is urging Florida wildlife managers to require a two-step method for dispatching pythons: whacking, then hacking.
Program For Cyber Security 'Neighborhood Watch' DevelopedThis sounds interesting. Neighborhood watches has worked for ages, now how about cyber-neighborhood watch - Now theirs an idea.
Twitter Hack Raises Flags on Security of Web ToolsThe Twitter breach occurred about a month ago, Twitter said.
Computer hackers could use power sockets to eavesdrop on people typingBy analysing different voltage changes caused by each keystroke, researchers were able to piece together what a computer user had written.
Hackers' Next Target Your Brainsome scientists are concerned that "brain hacking" or "mind hijacking" is a real possibility that needs to be taken seriously.
Technology: Hacking the iPhone for Espionage No, it's not enough that you can hack your iPhone to operate on the T-Mobile network, or launch third-party applications, or play games.
Modify a Holga CameraHack a Holga: How to wring great photos out of cheap Chinese plastic.
Jury rules against Minn. woman in download case - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsFree downloads are getting very costly.
High school student charged with designing computer software to shut teachers out of grading A high school computer whiz didn't get a high grade for a recent feat: designing software to shut teachers out of the grading system.
The internet - a new weapon for terrorists The era of the internet has revealed over the previous years of the real dangers associated by the use of it by terrorist groups that have managed to gain strength and much valuable information for their attacks.
Government's urgent push into Cyberwarfare has the Biggest Military companies vying for billions of dollars in new defense contractsThe exotic nature of the work, coupled with the deep recession, is enabling the companies to attract top young talent that once would have gone to Silicon Valley.
Quantum computers get commercial - and hackable - tech Quantum computers have arrived at last, experts say – but instead of replacing standard computing methods, they are complementing them.
China denies its cyber-spies hacked into the Pentagon's most expensive weapons programme Computer spies have repeatedly breached the Pentagon's costliest weapons program, the $300billion (£206billion) Joint Strike Fighter project.
Cyberspies Hack Into U.S. Fighter Project: Report Computer spies have repeatedly breached the Pentagon's costliest weapons program, the $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter project, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
In India, votes are cast on an electronic voting machine (EVM). The EVM seems to have been touted as the ultimate solution to all ills of the Indian voting process.
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