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Police arrest alleged 'TeamPoison' hacker in Newcastle

Another alleged teenage member of the ?TeaMp0isoN? hacking group accused of carrying out a jamming attack on Scotland Yard?s counter-terrorism hotline last month has been arrested by police.
Rim promises multi-layered security on BlackBerry 10 OS

RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is intended to be as secure, if not more so, than the OS running on RIM's current crop of BlackBerry devices. Mobile security could become a major selling point for the new platform, for enterprises, carriers and end users alike.
SOCA website still down after suspected DDoS cyber attack

The website of the UK?s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has been downed by what is starting to look like the most serious cyberattack ever to hit the site.
Facebook source code hacker Glenn Mangham on 'what really happened'

The hacker who stole Facebook's source code has gone public with a deeper explanation of how he penetrated the world's most popular social network.
Intel aims new Ivy Bridge processors at ultrabooks

Chip maker Intel has announced the availability of its quad-core 3rd generation Intel Core processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge ? the first to be built using Intel?s latest 22-nanometer tri-gate manufacturing process.
15-year-old suspected of 259 hack attacks arrested by Austrian police

Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old suspected of 259 hack attacks in three months, they said Monday. The youth has confessed, the Federal Criminal Police Office said.
Anonymous targets Home Office and other government websites

Hacktivist group Anonymous is staging a second wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government targets. It began by targetting the Home Office website over the weekend, and moved on to other UK government sites including GCHQ and MI6 yesterday.
Website vulnerabilities fall, but hackers become more skilled

The number of coding mistakes on websites continues to fall but companies are slow to fix issues that could be exploited by hackers working with improved attack tools, a security expert said.
Luckycat hacking attacks by group based in China, says Trend Micro

Security vendor Trend Micro has been tracking a hacking campaign called Luckycat that has been linked to 90 attacks, including some aimed at Tibetan activists, and has tied it to a group based in China, the company said in a report published on Thursday.
Will hacker group Anonymous bring down the Internet on 31 March?

Hacker group Anonymous has been threatening since February to "shut the Internet down" by launching a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) on Saturday (31 March). The attack will target the world?s 13 DNS servers so that Internet users will be unable to perform domain name lookups, thus temporarily disabling the Internet.

Latest Features

How to make your Android more productive, more secure and faster than iPhone

IPhone users love to brag about their phones. They line up around the block and stand in line for hours when a new one is released. Yet, for many users, Android is clearly the superior platform. Yes, its Achilles' heel is a big one: security. Android's openness and large market share mean that it's a juicy target for attackers.
Step aside Anonymous, here comes The Unknowns

The latest shadowy hacker group to strike is calling itself The Unknowns, and they're bragging they've hacked NASA Glenn Research Center, the U.S. Air Force, the European Space Agency and others, posting some network-access details.
Understanding the risks of multi tenancy

Offering user companies, or tenants, access to shared databases, applications or operating systems, can optimise the use of these resources and minimise unnecessary capacity. But herein lies the problem. Offering multiple tenants access to the same database or application raises the possibility of them seeing, and using, each other?s data, either through accident or malice.
Is your printer a security sore spot?

Believe it or not, your network printer or copier could be a serious security liability. After all, theyoften handle very sensitive documents and information and could even be used to gain access to other computers on the network, so you won't want a hacker to get at it. It's time to take printer security seriously.
Geotags in a photo of breasts brought down CabinCr3w hacker

According to the FBI, Ochoa allegedly tweeted in February using the handle @Anonw0rmer, directing followers to a site where he had posted information stolen from various law enforcement agency websites. At the bottom of the site was an image of a woman, now identified as his girlfriend, with a sign reading "PwNd by w0rmer & CabinCr3w".
Why small business is a prime target for hackers

If you run a small business, and think that none of your data was of interest to a hacker, consider this: what if a hacker could take stolen bank account or credit card information from your computer and package it with the same information from a hundred or a thousand other small businesses? Would it be worth something then?
IT pros lack confidence about business security

Results of a new survey speak to the inadequacies of corporate security measures as well as the persistence of ever-growing security threats.
Security in the cloud - Encryption for the enterprise

Many experts are touting encryption technology as the solution ? offering robust protection against the rising cybercrime threat, giving only authenticated users access to enterprise data, and securing data to satisfy compliance requirements.
Can Big Data be used to catch network invaders?

The buzz in security circles about "Big Data" goes something like this: If the enterprise could only unite its security-related event data with a warehouse of business information, it could analyse this Big Data to catch intruders trying to steal sensitive information.
LulzSec bust a blow to Anonymous? Not so fast

Security experts say it's too early to tell how much damage has been done to the hacking groups that operate under the loose affiliation of Anonymous.

How-tos

How to protect yourself from DNSChanger

How to create different, secure and easy-to-remember passwords for every site

What an Internet cyber thief is doing and how to catch them

How to protect online transactions with multi-factor authentication

How to hack an iPad

How to identify an insider threat

Mobile phone hacking - can you stop it?

How to secure your data in the cloud with Dropbox

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