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Category: Ethical Hacking

Cryptic Hack

Microsoft and Cryptography Research have joined a partnership in order to make security systems against security threats…in this case, Differential Power Analysis (DPA) hacking.
DPA hacking is what’s known [...]

Organised Crime and Data Protection

This year’s 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations report has turned up some surprising facts about data security and data breaches. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report garners information from the [...]

Facebook – Another Privacy Concern

A new list published on Pirate Bay has once again caused a furore about data security and social networking. The list was created by an online IT security consultant named [...]

Cyber Security Challenge

The current pool of IT security professionals is highly talented, it’s exceedingly small. At the Cyber Security Challenge UK launch on 26 July 2010, Baroness Neville-Jones, the minister for security [...]

Beware the Hacker

Cisco has just released a mid-year report that shows IT security is losing the war against hackers.
According to the Cisco report, hackers are more talented, better funded and simply [...]

SmartScreen Filter

Microsoft has had reason to celebrate as it revealed its web browser spam filter technology – also known as Internet Exploer 8’s SmartScreen Filter – has blocked its one billionth [...]

The New Kraken

The Kraken botnet, the biggest zombie network until it was disabled last year, has risen from the depths again. IT security staff need to be vigilant as the Kraken botnet [...]

Twitter Needs More Honesty

Last year Twitter suffered an unfortunate hacking incident where user’s accounts were compromised. The hackers gained access to emails and private information, were able to reset passwords and gain access [...]

Hacker Gets Suspended Sentence

French hacker Francois Cousteix aged 23, aka Hacker-Croll, has received a five month suspended sentence after being convicted of breaking into the Twitter accounts of celebrities like Lily Allen and [...]

Police Arrest London Teens

Two teenagers in London, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police.
The teenagers were arrested yesterday for their role in an internet [...]