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Article | 14/12/2010 Website attackers could be easily traced, researchers say
People using a tool to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against other websites in support of WikiLeaks can easily be traced, accor...
Article | 14/12/2010 Gawker Media hacked, warns users to change passwords
E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weeke...
Article | 14/12/2010 Operation Payback has new target: Corporate fax machines
The activists behind Operation Payback have come up with a new way to annoy corporations that have severed their ties with WikiLeaks: bombard them wit...
Article | 13/12/2010 Crowdsourcing group targets NTP mobile e-mail patents
A company using crowdsourcing methods to challenge patents has targeted three mobile e-mail patents held by NTP, a Virginia company that has filed mor...
Article | 11/12/2010 Oracle seeks $212 million in interest from SAP
Oracle wants SAP to pay it US$212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies' TomorrowNow laws...
Article | 10/12/2010 Has progress been made in fighting DDoS attacks?
As the distributed denial-of-service attacks spawned by this week's WikiLeaks events continue, network operators are discussing what progress, if any,...
Article | 10/12/2010 Group used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks
PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationsh...
Article | 10/12/2010 Dutch arrest 16-year-old related to WikiLeaks attacks
Dutch authorities arrested a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday in relation to the cyberattacks against Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, which were aimed at pun...
Article | 9/12/2010 Former Microsoft CTO's firm files patent lawsuits
Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio developer and broker started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine...
Article | 8/12/2010 WikiLeaks' Assange arrested in London, denied bail
WikiLeaks' chief spokesman Julian Assange was arrested on Tuesday by U.K. police after turning himself in to authorities and was denied bail later in ...
Article | 7/12/2010 Retailer accused of inflating Google ranking is arrested
An online retailer who boasted that complaints about his business helped boost its standing in Google search results was arrested Monday.
Article | 3/12/2010 Hackers issue bogus Amber Alert
Hackers broke into the state of Iowa's Amber Alert website and issued a bogus alert over the weekend.
Article | 4/12/2010 Web sites are stealing browser histories
Certain Web sites probe visiting browsers for data that can be used to help criminals craft phishing attacks that compromise the accounts of online ba...
Article | 4/12/2010 Google pledges improvement in copyright protection
Often accused of being lax about copyright protection in its online services, Google is pledging to sharpen its anti-piracy policies and procedures.
Article | 3/12/2010 2010's biggest security SNAFUs
That old phrase SNAFU ("Situation Normal, All F---ked Up!") certainly describes our choices for 2010's top 10 security screw-ups.