A boy who lives in the Notre-Dame-de-Grace suburb of Montreal has just pled guilty to hacking websites and costing about $60,000 worth of “damage”. In a story that sounds somewhat similar to the beginning of the old 90...
Think the NSA’s site was the only one attacked or hacked recently? Think again. According to Ars Technica, there has been a hacking spree on US government websites and databases and it’s been going on for over a year. Accused of t...
Rebekah Brooks, who used to work for News Corp as an executive, as well as some of her former colleagues on News of the World, are going to trial this week for the phone hacking scandal they were hit with a few years ago. The form...
There have been a string of government site hackings lately, the most recent is President Obama’s own Twitter account. The account is used by the president’s Organized for Action (OFA) campaign and was recently the victim of foul ...
If you’re an Adobe customer, you might want to change your password today. Following up an initial report earlier this month where Adobe said hackers acquired data from 3 million customer accounts, the company is now saying ...
The website for U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), an institution now at the center of a huge international scandal for its espionage activities, was inaccessible Friday night, according to an agency spokesman. NSA is trying to ...
Now there are many in the world who claim that as technology is evil and is separating us more and more in a community sense, despite the fact that for humanity to have gotten anywhere, even the Bronze Age, required the use of som...
Experts are saying that the system used to track sea vessels is outdated and can be easily hacked, according to BBC News. The technology under investigation is the Authentic Identification System, or AIS for short. It is used to t...
The websites of web and PC security software manufacturers AVG and Avira were hacked by Palestinian hactivists earlier this day, courtesy of a major DNS breach into Avira and AVG. When users visited the websites of both of these s...
Anti-virus software creator, McAfee, has come out with a warning to computer users to beware of phishing attacks by hackers who want to take advantage of the rollout of ObamaCare exchanges. Phishing attacks is one of the most dang...
Germany’s Chaos Computer Club has apparently broken through the security on Apple’s Touch ID system. Touch ID was introduced along with the iPhone 5s as a means to secure and unlock your phone through the use of a fing...
While the NSA is busy taking a peek at what Brazil is up to, Chinese hackers are making a meal from hacking into American systems and getting away with it. According to a Symantec report, these hackers are not from the Chinese Mil...
In the years to come, your car will likely be a full-blown computer running on either Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, or a yet-unknown contender. Even today, many cars are heavily computerized. This also means your precious lit...
The New York Times website was down today due to a “malicious external attack,” with the group responsible alleged to be the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The attack involved redirecting requests from nytimes.com to a ...
Washington Post, which was recently purchased by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, was briefly disrupted by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) this past Thursday. The SEA successfully redirected readers from the Washington Post’s website...
