• UNSW targeted by hackers

  By Hamish Barwick | 21 January, 2013 16:14

  The University of NSW (UNSW) has confirmed that it was subjected to a number of intrusion attacks against its servers by unidentified hackers during December 2012 and January 2013.

• Security researcher shares blow-by-blow account of advanced persistent threat

  By Ellen Messmer | 30 October, 2012 18:35

  Hackers are brazenly infiltrating corporate networks to steal valuable data for purposes of sharing it with other companies or nation-states -- and they're getting away with it, say security researchers sharing war stories at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami this week.

• University of Melbourne gets Green IT benefit from security

  By Hamish Barwick | 29 October, 2012 16:11

  The University of Melbourne has reported an unexpected side benefit from deploying network security — saving money.

• Monday Grok: 600,000 Facebook accounts compromised

  By Andrew Birmingham | 31 October, 2011 09:54

  600,000 Facebook accounts were "compromised" yesterday, or thereabouts.

• Hacking Apple's Siri: Not so easy

  By Ian Paul | 26 October, 2011 03:41

  Hackers looking to port Apple's Siri digital assistant to iOS devices other than the iPhone 4S claim to have a rudimentary version of Siri running on the original iPad. Twitter user Jackoplane recently posted screenshots online showing Siri fully integrated into the iPad's operating system. The only problems is Siri can't do much on the iPad right now since most of Siri's processing takes place on Apple servers. Similar to the version of Siri on the iPhone 4 that hacker Steve Troughton-Smith had up and running earlier in October, the iPad doesn't appear to be able to interface with Apple's servers.

• Top 10 hacking movies

  By Computerworld Staff | 18 April, 2011 10:38

  2011 so far has been filled with news of high-profile hacking - the Epsilon data breach, Microsoft and the various attempts of the nefarious Anonymous. Even the Australian Government copped a little unwanted interest. With this in mind, we thought it was time to track down the top ten Hollywood movies about hacking.

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06

  Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.

• How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?

  By Robert McMillan | 08 October, 2009 18:54

  It seems like a question ripped from the back of a cheap sci-fi novel: What happens when the robots are turned against us?

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