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Article | 4/02/2013 Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam

A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a US prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused m...

Article | 1/02/2013 French website hits stumbling block indexing Mega files

A French website collecting links to content stored on the Mega file-sharing service is experiencing trouble in what may be an effort by Kim Dotcom's ...

Article | 1/02/2013 Wall Street Journal says it too was hit by Chinese hackers

The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a sim...

Article | 31/01/2013 Hackers unveil latest Apple iOS 6 jailbreak website

Apple software hackers unveiled a website late Wednesday where the latest untethered jailbreak is expected to be released soon.

Article | 30/01/2013 File-sharing site Mega fields 150 copyright infringement warnings

The file-sharing service Mega has fielded 150 copyright warnings since its recent launch as founder Kim Dotcom grows a risky new business while under ...

Article | 29/01/2013 Forrester predicts slower IT spending growth for Asia-Pacific

IT spending growth in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to slow as countries including China and India grapple with emerging economic issues as a re...

Article | 29/01/2013 Phone unlocking services face new legal risk, EFF says

U.S. phone unlocking services face the biggest legal risk from mobile operators keen to enforce a change in copyright law that now makes it illegal to...

Article | 28/01/2013 Privacy messaging tool Wickr adds Dropbox integration

Wickr, a mobile messaging application that electronically shreds communications, has added the ability to send documents from Dropbox, leave video mes...

Article | 23/01/2013 Reporters Without Borders website abused in malware campaign

The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities,...

Article | 23/01/2013 Cuba's Internet speeds up as undersea cable is activated

Cuba's Internet speeds increased on Tuesday, and the country appears to be routing more traffic through a previously dormant undersea fiber-optic cabl...

Article | 22/01/2013 Doubt cast on the security of Kim Dotcom's Mega service

Kim Dotcom's bold new venture, the file-storage and sharing service Mega, is drawing criticism as security researchers analyze how the site protects u...

Article | 21/01/2013 iPhone hackers hint at progress towards iOS 6 jailbreak

Two iPhone hackers hinted they're making progress towards developing a new jailbreak for the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system.

Article | 21/01/2013 Cuba turns on submarine internet cable, but just for one-way traffic

A change in Internet traffic patterns over the past week suggests that Cuba may have turned on a fibre-optic submarine cable that links it to the glob...

Article | 18/01/2013 Malware masquerades as patch for Java

Trend Micro has spotted a piece of malicious software that masquerades as the latest patch for Java, a typically opportunistic move by hackers.

Article | 17/01/2013 Microsoft vows to improve security suite after failed evaluation

Microsoft vowed on Wednesday to improve two of its security products after both failed to pass an evaluation by a Germany security software testing or...