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Article | 4/06/2011 UK man arrested on Facebook hacking charges

A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested Thursday on charges that he tried to hack into the Facebook social-networking site.

Article | 4/06/2011 Sony PlayStation Network's post-hack freebies now available

Sony has made a promised "Welcome Back" promotion available to PlayStation Network users who lost access to the company's online gaming service, some ...

Article | 3/06/2011 Hotmail and Yahoo users also victims of targeted attacks

Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to...

Article | 2/06/2011 Facebook video scam puts malware on Mac and Windows

Facebook seems unable to stop scammers from circulating malicious Web links that install fake antivirus software on victims' computers.

Article | 2/06/2011 Google says phishers stole e-mail from US officials, others

Google has disrupted what it believes to be a targeted phishing campaign aimed at stealing e-mail from government officials, contractors and military ...

Article | 28/05/2011 Mobile phones are great for phishers, researchers find

Computer users seem to be getting better at spotting fake websites that are trying to steal their passwords, but when it comes to mobile phones, the d...

Article | 26/05/2011 Insider data theft costs Bank of America $10 million

A Bank of America insider who sold customer data to criminals cost the bank at least US$10 million in losses.

Article | 25/05/2011 Hackers steal Hotmail messages thanks to Web flaw

Criminals recently spent more than a week siphoning e-mail messages from Hotmail users' accounts, thanks to a programming bug in Microsoft's website.

Article | 25/05/2011 Sony says hacker stole 2,000 records from Canadian site

The problems keep coming for Sony. On Tuesday the company confirmed that someone had hacked into its website and stolen about 2,000 customer names and...

Article | 24/05/2011 Windows 8 is coming in 2012: Ballmer

Microsoft's next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed Windows 8, will debut in 2012, company CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.

Article | 20/05/2011 Siemens says it will fix SCADA bugs

Siemens is working on a fix for some serious vulnerabilities recently discovered in its industrial control system products used to manage machines on ...

Article | 19/05/2011 Siemens SCADA hacking talk pulled over security concerns

A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled Wednesday over worries that the information in the...

Article | 19/05/2011 Sony takes down PlayStation Network after URL error

Nothing comes easy to Sony these days. The company was forced to take part of its Sony PlayStation Network offline briefly on Wednesday as it fixed a ...

Article | 18/05/2011 Microsoft: One in 14 downloads is malicious

The next time a website says to download new software to view a movie or fix a problem, think twice. There's a pretty good chance that the program is ...

Article | 18/05/2011 As consumer sales decline, Dell sees silver in the cloud

Dell is reporting some success in its struggle to retool itself as a cloud and enterprise services provider, even as the company's consumer business c...