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• Step aside Anonymous, here comes The Unknowns

  By Ellen Messmer | 04 May, 2012 05:46

  The latest shadowy hacker group to strike is calling itself The Unknowns, and they're bragging they've hacked NASA Glenn Research Center, the U.S. Air Force, the European Space Agency and others, posting some network-access details.

• Monday Grok: Did Microsoft help hackers by mistake?

  By Andrew Birmingham | 19 March, 2012 10:09

  The words "Microsoft" and "security" are synonymous, but often for all the wrong reasons. It’s the curse of success really. When you own an overwhelming slab of the world’s desktops, naturally the Black Hats will come after you rather than other niche operating system providers. And let’s face it, Windows is hardly Helm’s Deep when it comes to repelling Orcs.

• What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous?

  By Network World staff | 11 January, 2012 09:41

  Anonymous had a busy year in 2011 pushing its hacker-activist agenda on companies around the Web, to the point where just the sound of the hacker group's name can send shivers down the spine of many a CIO.

• 2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

  By Mark Gibbs | 09 January, 2012 16:30

  Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

• Turnbull's card details exposed by hackers

  By AAP | 29 December, 2011 10:22

  Millionaire MP Malcolm Turnbull and billionaire businessman David Smorgon have had their credit card details published on the internet by hackers.

• 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.

• Hacker collective Anonymous strikes at child porn sites

  By Christina DesMarais | 23 October, 2011 00:57

  Hacker collective Anonymous is at it again, and this time it is targeting websites that allow users to share child porn.

• Study: Hackers, IT pros share personal information online

  By Christina DesMarais | 16 October, 2011 04:52

  Hackers apparently can be just as careless as their victims.

• Sony PSN compromise a setback for consumer loyalty: Analyst

  By Hamish Barwick | 14 October, 2011 10:00

  The suspension of 93,000 Playstation Network (PSN) accounts by Sony after a large number of unauthorised sign-in attempts could undo recent campaigns to win back customers and affect long-term confidence in the company, according to an Australian security analyst.

• Android users: Advice to protect your phones

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 26 September, 2011 02:40

  Android smartphone users can take some commonsense precautions to protect their personal data from being stolen -- important advice considering an app developer purports to know how to take the information in under 60 seconds.

• Facial recognition: Facebook photo matching just the start

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 22 September, 2011 11:20

  The Internet was in an uproar earlier this year following Facebook's launch of facial recognition software for its photo services, enabling users to identify their friends in photos automatically--and without their permission. Though critics described that move as creepy, the controversial technology may now be on the verge of widespread use.

• Skype iPhone, iPod Touch app has security hole

  By Eric Mack | 21 September, 2011 02:21

  Skype is working to fix a security hole in its iOS app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows a hacker to steal a person's entire address book. The vulnerability, located in the app's chat message window, can be exploited with JavaScript code. It was pointed out by security researcher Phil Purviance of AppSec.

• US-Australia military pact deemed to cover cyberspace

  By Tim Greene | 17 September, 2011 06:41

  For the first time, the US has interpreted an existing treaty to include aggression in cyberspace as a trigger for international military cooperation.

• Rogue Google certificate used by 300,000 Iranian IPs

  By Stilgherrian | 06 September, 2011 11:02

  Iranian internet users whose security may have been compromised by the forged Google.com digital certificate could number in the hundreds of thousands. An interim report (PDF) commissioned by DigiNotar, the certification authority (CA) at the centre of the hacking incident, also reveals lax security at the Dutch firm.