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Article | 27/02/2013 Australian hacker fears possible arrest after raid
Dylan Wheeler, a computer security and gaming enthusiast who lives near Perth in Western Australia, could very well be in a lot of trouble.
Article | 22/02/2013 Zendesk says breach compromised email addresses
Zendesk said Thursday a hacker gained access to support information for some customers of its online help desk software.
Article | 20/02/2013 Many companies likely affected by compromise of popular iOS developer forum
The administrators of a popular iOS developer Web forum called iPhoneDevSDK confirmed Wednesday that it had been compromised by hackers who used it to...
Article | 20/02/2013 China's Defense Ministry calls accusations of state-sponsored hacking groundless
China's Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday refuted the accusations that the nation's military supports cyberespionage, and said a recent securi...
Article | 20/02/2013 Twitter calls for smarter password habits following Jeep, Burger King hacks
Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep that...
Article | 17/02/2013 Adobe to release emergency patches for Reader, Acrobat
Adobe Systems said it will release patches for two critical vulnerabilities disclosed last week that are actively being used by attackers.
Article | 15/02/2013 Facebook targeted by hackers, says no user data compromised
Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised.
Article | 14/02/2013 Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA
Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S...
Article | 14/02/2013 EU cybersecurity agency warns about over-reliance on cloud
Europe's top cyber security agency warned on Thursday that the growth in cloud computing is a “double-edged sword”.
Article | 14/02/2013 Targeted online attacks rise against Uyghur minority
Two security vendors have detected an uptick in targeted malicious software attacks against the Uyghur community, an ethnic group in western China tha...
Article | 6/02/2013 US Federal Reserve admits to breached system
Malicious attackers gained entry to internal U.S. Federal Reserve System computers, illegally copying a database of banking executive contact informat...
Article | 6/02/2013 Japan foreign ministry says PC leaked docs to external server
Japan's foreign ministry said that a computer was compromised and documents were probably copied to an external server.
Article | 4/02/2013 US Department of Energy hack disclosed employee information
The U.S. Department of Energy said Monday that personal information about several hundred employees and contractors was stolen in a mid-January hack, ...
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 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...