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• Article | 19/05/2011 Personal data of Massachusetts' unemployed stolen

  As if being unemployed isn't bad enough, 210,000 unemployed residents of Massachusetts may have had personal data about them stolen from the state age...
• Article | 15/04/2010 Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

  Hackers broke into a server used by the Apache Software Foundation to keep track of software bugs.
• Article | 12/02/2010 Twitter application Grader.com hacked

  A popular Twitter application used to measure the influence of Twitter users has been hacked and used to send spam messages.
• Article | 25/01/2010 TOR issues updated software after server breach

  The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.
• Article | 21/01/2010 Security researcher IDs China link in Google hack

  The malicious software used to steal information from companies such as Google contains code that links it to China, a security researcher said Tuesda...
• Article | 15/01/2010 Ballmer: Microsoft will stay in China

  Microsoft does not plan to follow Google’s lead in pulling out of China, the software giant’s CEO told news outlets on Thursday.
• Article | 15/01/2010 China emphasizes laws as Google defies censorship

  China said Thursday that foreign Internet companies are welcome to operate in the country in accordance with local laws, after Google defied authoriti...
• Article | 14/01/2010 Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google -- and Adobe, says researcher

  Adobe today confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks Google cited yes...
• Article | 13/01/2010 McAfee peddles wares to millions in Facebook deal

  McAfee has beat off rivals in a deal with Facebook which will allow it to promote its security suite to the website’s 350 million users and make it ma...
• Article | 13/01/2010 Group behind Twitter hack takes down Baidu.com

  The group that took down Twitter.com last month has apparently claimed another victim: China's largest search engine Baidu.com.
• Article | 3/12/2009 Restaurants sue vendors after point-of-sale hack

  When Keith Bond bought a computerized cash register system for his Broussard, Louisiana, restaurant, he thought he was modernizing his restaurant. Tod...
• Article | 21/11/2009 Global warming research exposed after hack

  An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate be...
• Article | 17/11/2009 SSL flaw could have been used to hack Twitter

  A flaw in the protocol used to secure communications over the Internet could have been used to hack Twitter accounts, according to an IBM security res...
• Article | 11/11/2009 Eight indicted for $9 million hack

  A U.S. grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight people related to hacking into a computer network operated by credit-card processing vendor RBS WorldP...
• Article | 3/11/2009 iPhone cellular unlock promised by hacker this week

  Ace iPhone hacker George Hotz, know as Geohot, is planning a release this week of new code that promises to let users run their iPhone on the GSM cell...