News

• 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.

• Alleged members of hactivist group LulzSec busted

  By Ellen Messmer | 07 March, 2012 04:43

  The FBI and law enforcement counterparts abroad have arrested members of the LulzSec hacker group now affiliated with the broader hactivist collective Anonymous, according to news reports that also say LulzSec leader "Sabu" turned in his fellow hackers.

• Privacy Commissioner opens investigation into Fairfax site hack

  By Computerworld Staff | 03 February, 2012 11:56

  The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has launched an investigation into the recent hacking of Fairfax microsite, Herald Education. Fairfax’s Young Writer was also hacked.

• Many pcAnywhere systems still sitting ducks

  By Robert Lemos | 31 January, 2012 22:15

  Despite warnings from security software maker Symantec not to connect its pcAnywhere remote-access software to the Internet, more than 140,000 computers appear to remain configured to allow direct connections from the Internet, thereby putting them at risk.

• Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors

  By Paul Krill | 10 January, 2012 22:24

  Oracle, which officially took on the big job of shepherding Java two years ago this month, is traveling bumpy roads lately, with its modularization and licensing plans for Java raising eyebrows and security concerns coming to the fore as well.

• 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.

• Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness

  By Mark Gibbs | 16 December, 2011 12:27

  Before I get to this week's main topic I must give a big thumbs-up to a book that all of you who like to cook will thoroughly enjoy: "Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food" by Jeff Potter (pub. O'Reilly).

• Monday Grok: 600,000 Facebook accounts compromised

  By Andrew Birmingham | 31 October, 2011 09:54

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

• Top four security predictions for 2012: ISF

  By Hamish Barwick | 27 October, 2011 15:43

  While 2011 is coming to an end, security threats show no sign of slowing down. UK-based Information Security Forum (ISF) vice president of sales and marketing, Steve Durbin, shared his four security predictions for 2012.

• Stupid hacker tricks: Exploits gone bad

  By JR Raphael | 24 October, 2011 21:12

  If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.

• 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.

• Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) customers to pay for identity protection?

  By Hamish Barwick | 15 August, 2011 08:44

  SonyPlayStation Network (PSN) customers may be asked to pay for their own account and identity security in 12 months' time following a free year-long trial of a range of CSIdentity's anti-fraud services.

• Hacker group's cyber war on US police

  By AAP | 08 August, 2011 09:20

  A hacker group says it's "defaced and destroyed" websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspects accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony.

• NBN provider one of many cyber breaches

  By AAP | 28 July, 2011 08:27

  Police have flagged more arrests over one of Australia's biggest online hacking attacks, which they say could escalate to companies overseas.