Warnings from Washington about a "cyber Pearl Harbor" envision a single surprise strike from an enemy that could destroy power plants nationwide.
Jon Tullett shares some online security tricks that will keep the web wolves from your door.
It’s easy to grow paranoid researching an article on Anonymous. Some terrible things have happened to people who have tangled with them.
Activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption.
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/ 22 September 2011
Spam, phishing, viruses, malware and identity theft … cyber criminals are getting more audacious. Can anything be done?
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/ 20 September 2011
Japan told its biggest weapons supplier, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, to investigate a cyber attack on its computers on Tuesday.
Dozens of countries, companies and organisations have had their computers systematically hacked over the past five years by one country.
Not by land, air, sea or space but on the internet. Hackers are plotting to attack in more sophisticated ways than you realise.
South Korea’s military will create a cyber warfare school to help combat growing internet attacks from North Korea, an official said on Wednesday.
Security experts say any sophisticated state in the 21st century has formidable powers to read almost any electronic information it wishes.
Google has become a "political tool" vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper has said of Google’s hacking attack claims.
The Chinese military has accused the United States of launching a global "internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer faced criticism of his leadership after the consumer electronics giant revealed a second massive security breach.
More than one million website pages have been hit by a attack that injects code into sites that redirect users to a fraudulent software operation.
In what may be an early April Fool’s Day joke, the website of the outspoken youth wing of the ruling ANC was hacked on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 4 December 2010
A group calling itself the ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ has hacked into the website of India’s federal crime investigation bureau.
Former economics student David Kernell faces up to 50 years in jail if convicted of hacking into email account.
China’s military warned the United States on Thursday to "speak and act cautiously" to avoid reigniting tensions between the two superpowers.
A British ”UFO eccentric”, wanted in the US for breaking into Nasa and Pentagon computers, lost his latest battle to avoid extradition on Friday.
A tribunal heard claims of hacking and alleged attempts by a senior judge to influence SA’s highest court in a case involving Jacob Zuma on Wednesday.
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/ 28 October 2008
Does teaching computer hacking skills at university boost net security or set up students for a life of crime? asks Jackie Kemp.