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MELBOURNE: Hackers Union of India is reportedly believed to be the mastermind of alleged hackings of several Melbourne business servers in a retaliation to the attacks against Indians here.
Businesses have been locked out of their computer networks with servers encrypted and encoded, making it impossible for employees to do their work, an ABC report said, [...]

Sydney, Sept 16 (ANI): Hackers are using Patrick Swayze’s death to push off spurious anti-virus software to Internet users and infect their computers with viruses.

The 57-year-old Swayze died of pancreatic cancer on Monday.

Many bogus websites claiming to provide information on the death of the Dirty Dancing star have mushroomed up.

Computer [...]

Melbourne, Aug 20 (ANI): Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with malware.

Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner’s consent.

Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the [...]

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Many have heard of “swatting” it is commonly associated with fairly harmless pranks.  However, [...]

London, June 27 (ANI): Harry Potter fans are being conned with a phoney link placed by cyber criminals that claims to lead them to a free sneak preview of the new film.

Hackers have been trying to trap fans into watching the soon to be released Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with the link.

Viewers are [...]

Beijing, May 21 (ANI): An acclaimed Internet scientist has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military on government networks.

Former National Computer Network Emergency response team’s Director Professor Fang Binxing said there is no scientific basis to blame either China’s military or the government for hacking [...]

London, May 15 (ANI): In the latest phishing scam to hit Facebook, almost 200 million users of the social networking site are at the risk of being robbed of their passwords.

A Facebook spokesman has said that Internet fraudsters have stolen the passwords of a number of members in a successful attack on May 14.

Users were [...]

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Contrary to previous rumors, President Barack Obama hasn’t gotten his super-secure BlackBerry.

According to The Washington Times, the American leader will have to long for his souped-up smartphone for a little while, and has instead been forced to use an ungainly hybrid.

As for the reason why it [...]

New Delhi, Apr 24 (ANI): China has said that it was irresponsible on the part of other countries to allege that cyber-attacks originated in China without having thorough [...]

London, Apr 21 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Facebook profile set up to promote his charity foundation has been hijacked by computer users who have launched personal attacks on him and his wife.

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation on Facebook, which is accessed via a link from the charity’s official website, is supposed to [...]

Bonn – Hackers have started trying to hit people where they live by distributing e-mails with fake news of local atrocities in the hope of getting people to open a link and expose their computer to danger. One trick is to send out an e-mail with a subject line reading, “At least 18 killed in [...]

London, Mar.27 (ANI): The IT system in the British Parliament has become infected with the Conficker computer virus, The Telegraph reports.

The worm virus, which has affected more than 15 million computers around the world, has become established on computers used by MPs, Lords and parliamentary staff.

Known variously as Conficker, Downadup, and Kido, it buries itself [...]

Wellington – A New Zealand teenage whizz-kid who admitted developing software that infected a million computers around the world has been hired by telecommunications company TelstraClear to advise companies how to avoid hackers.
Owen Walker, 19, who was tracked down by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, is advising on “botnets” – networks of computers [...]

It was Charlie Miller’s day again! The security researcher known for hacking a Mac in just 2 minutes at CanSecWest’s PWN2OWN contest last year – Charlie Miller improved his record by hacking a Mac in just under 10 seconds, at this year’s CanSecWest security conference, on Wednesday.
Charlie Miller won $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air last [...]

A computer breach at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has led to the theft of personal information on more than 45,000 employees and retirees, the agency confirmed this week.
All told, the FAA said the hackers hijacked 48 files, two containing sensitive personal information that could expose the employees and retirees to identity theft.
From the statement:
Two [...]

London, Jan 8 (ANI): Hijacking a web feed of the Macworld 2009 conference, hackers have made spoof announcements about the death of Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple.
Earlier this week, Jobs clarified persistent rumours about his health saying that he is suffering from health problems caused by a hormone imbalance.
However, the entire web world was [...]

New York, Jan.7 (ANI):Cyber attacks pose the greatest threat to the United States after nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction – and they are increasingly hard to prevent, FBI experts say.
Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI’’s cyber division, told a conference in New York that computer attacks pose the biggest risk “from a [...]

By Sandeep Datta
New Delhi, Jan.7 (ANI): Some Pakistani individuals, who are on the prowl to hack important websites and misuse them by giving it Islamic or Pakistani colour, have targeted Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s famous community group on orkut, the social networking site.
The community group holds significance for the orkut members, as it is probably [...]

Washington, January 6 (ANI): One of pop diva Britney Spears’ social networking pages was hacked by some rude internet pranksters on Monday morning.
The hackers posted an awful adult-only message on the page on Britney’s official site on Twitter.com.
“Hi y”all! Brit Brit here, just wanted to update you all on the size of my [...]

Bonn, Germany – If you use Internet Explorer, you should either deactivate JavaScript or temporarily switch to another browser to combat a newly discovered vulnerability, according to the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI)
The security hole allows hackers to execute programs on your computer without your knowledge or permission, says the [...]