Items tagged with hackers

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The Next Hacking Frontier - Your Brain? Monday, July 13th, 2009 - 14:36:12 - Sarah Gingichashvili Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain. In the past year... read more

Twitter All Clear After Worm Wave Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 - 10:21:58 - Sarah Gingichashvili Twitter has been given the all clear after a worm infected "tens of thousands of users". But experts say the attack could have been much... read more

Security Experts Eye Worm Attack Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - 10:23:14 - Sarah Gingichashvili Security experts are downplaying the potential impact of a virus which some believe is set to strike on 1 April. Conficker has infected up to 15... read more

No Joke in April Fool's Day Computer Worm Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 - 10:01:53 - Sarah Gingichashvili A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from... read more

'Scareware' Scams Trick Searchers Monday, March 23rd, 2009 - 10:16:14 - Sarah Gingichashvili Makers of fake anti-virus software are exploiting search engines to drive people to sites peddling 'scareware'. Using popular and mis-spelled search... read more

Facebook Users Suffer Viral Surge Monday, March 2nd, 2009 - 14:03:59 - Sarah Gingichashvili Facebook has been targeted by malicious hackers seeking to steal valuable data from members. The social network site has been hit by five separate... read more

Hackers Target Xbox Live Players Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 - 13:30:32 - Sarah Gingichashvili Xbox Live is being targeted by malicious hackers selling services that kick players off the network. The booting services are proving popular with... read more

Parking Ticket Leads to a Virus Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 - 10:12:39 - Sarah Gingichashvili Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: fake parking tickets. Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed... read more

Monster.com Reports User Data Theft Saturday, January 24th, 2009 - 12:34:22 - Anuradha Menon Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its... read more

Privacy Check with DI-HOPE-KD Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 - 10:03:29 - Anuradha Menon We've all seen the movies and television shows where police detectives and anti-terrorist teams plug a suspect's name into a computer and receive all... read more

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