Tagged: Hacking
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Facebook staff gears up for IPO with an all-night hackathon News
18.05.2012 With Facebook’s IPO tantalisingly close, employees at the social networking site’s Menlo Park campus are in the midst of an all-night hackathon to code new programs. -
NASA and ESA confirm hacking attack from ‘The Unknowns’ group News
08.05.2012 A new hacking group calling itself The Unknowns managed to breach the security of sites belonging to NASA and the European Space Agency in recent weeks. The group, which claims... -
Irish public is failing to report online racism, Hotline.ie says News
10.04.2012 The Irish internet watchdog for illegal content, Hotline.ie, is claiming the Irish public is failing to use the service to anonymously report incidents of incitement to hatred... -
Anonymous hackers take down UK government sites News
10.04.2012 Hackers associated with Anonymous apparently caused three UK government websites to crash over the weekend, in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to protest the... -
European Cybercrime Centre to crack down on cyber threats News
05.04.2012 The European Commission is proposing to set up a European Cybercrime Centre in the Hague to focus on online fraud, e-crime and identity theft.Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Search Engines, Science, Online Business, Mobile, Internet, Government, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Computers, CIO -
LulzSec hackers reborn with military dating website attack? News
28.03.2012 Hacker group LulzSec has apparently undergone a type of resurrection. A new flurry of hackers, calling themselves LulzSec reborn, are claiming to have exposed more than 170,000... -
Florida man to plead guilty to celebrity account hacking News
23.03.2012 Christopher Chaney, a 35-year-old from Jacksonville in Florida, is set to plead guilty to federal charges in the US that are accusing him of hacking into the email accounts of... -
Google awards student US$60,000 for Chrome hack News
08.03.2012 A Russian student has won US$60,000 for hacking into a fully patched Windows 7 machine using a remote code execution exploit in Google Chrome as part of Google's Pwnium hacker... -
Google offering US$1m in prizes for hackers who exploit Chrome News
28.02.2012 Google is offering up to US$1m worth of prizes to people who can exploit its browser Chrome at this year’s CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver. -
Juniper Networks buys web-security firm Mykonos for US$80m News
23.02.2012 In a deal worth about €80m, Sunnyvale, California-based Juniper Networks has acquired Mykonos Software, a provider of intrusion deception systems that protect websites and web...Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Security, Mobile, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Top tips to avoid being a cyber crime victim News
07.02.2012 Today is Safer Internet Day, with countries around the globe holding events to educate parents, teachers and children about using the web, especially social media, more safely....Tags: Hacking, Gaming, Cyber Crime, Phishing, Microsoft, Trend Micro, Twitter, Internet, Bullying, Facebook -
Google to educate consumers about cyber crime News
18.01.2012 To combat the growing problem of cyber crime, Google has decided to take matters into its own hands. Yesterday in the US, it started Good to Know, a consumer education campaign...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Global CIO, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, ComputersTags: Hacking, Google, Cyber Attack, Cyber Crime, Cookies, IP, Cyber Criminals, Internet Security, Online, -
UK’s GCHQ seeking new cyber spy talent with code challenge News
02.12.2011 The UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a site to recruit cyber security specialists by asking applicants to crack a code on their website. -
Porn and violence flood Facebook news feeds News
15.11.2011 An influx of graphic images which depict pornography and extreme violence have flooded numerous Facebook users’ news feeds, reports suggest. -
Online gaming platform Steam has been hacked News
11.11.2011 Hackers have accessed online gaming site Steam's database, which has user names, credit cards, email addresses and billing addresses. No evidence of credit card misuse has been... -
The week in gadgets News
17.10.2011 A look at the gadget happenings, as Sesame Street’s YouTube channel gets hacked, Google Buzz will shut down and RIM will offer free premium BlackBerry apps to users affected by...Tags: Google+, Google Buzz, Social Networking, Google, YouTube, Porn, Hacking, BlackBerry, RIM, Smartphones, Week in gadgets -
LulzSec activities highlight importance of security News
17.10.2011 Data security concerns were highlighted recently from the activities of hacking group LulzSec this summer. -
Security and data protection in the cloud News
16.10.2011 With the recent high-profile security breaches of Sony’s PlayStation Network, along with outages at Amazon’s data centres, LAURA O’BRIEN asks providers how secure data is in the...