Spam is everywhere. Its persistence is attributable to gullible internet users, to well-known software giants and, ultimately, to money. Unfortunately, spam is not going to be vanquished through use of…
Cyber crime is a growth industry, if you have the head for it.
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The hacking stories just keep on coming. Of course, The News of the World is the big one at the moment, matched, for the moment at least, by the hacking of The Sun’s website by celebrity – and proficient…
A screenshot showing the Sun’s website after it had been attacked by LulzSec, a clandestine group of hackers and cyber activists.
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An attack by computer hacker group LulzSec has shut down over 1000 websites owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News International, after the group posted a fake story on the website of Murdoch tabloid The Sun declaring…
Not sharing your password is one of the basic rules for online safety.
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On July 4, a hacker took control of one of the Twitter accounts of US broadcaster FoxNews.com and sent out several tweets announcing President Obama had been shot. Because it was a national holiday and…
Imagine a world where spam didn’t exist. It isn’t hard to do.
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We’ve all received them: emails offering special prices on Viagra, offering fortunes we didn’t know we had, offering links to fantastic websites we simply must visit right away. Annoying as! But the technology…
If you’re concerned about the data on your phone, there are a few things you can do.
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The Apple iPhone feature of logging and storing users’ location information has attracted worldwide attention. But discussions about location privacy aside, a more basic question needs to be asked: how…
In the fight against cyber crime, a winning move is proving hard to find.
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Cyber security has been in the news a lot lately. Corporate giants have had their data stolen, intelligence agencies have had their websites taken down and hacker groups have become household names. Closer…
Computer hacker group LulzSec are in the news again. The team has carried out successful hacks on the PlayStation Network, PBS and the US Senate but the latest – which took down the CIA website for several…
Does Sony have unique vulnerabilities, or has it just been unlucky?
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Recent high-profile cyber attacks have dented the image of Japanese technology giant Sony and left millions of customers worried about the security of their personal information. An attack in April resulted…
There’s every chance your computer has been compromised.
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Today, Australia’s Labor Government announced it had started working on a national cyber security strategy, to be released as a white paper in the first half of next year. This comes amid growing concern…
Is it time to get tougher on hackers, whatever their motivations?
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PRIVACY – Who are hackers and what do they want from you? Pop culture would have us believe they live in dank basements, wear black leather from head to toe and have pseudonyms such as Warlock or Neo…