Southwark Crown Court has sentenced a 21-year-old British man to a year in prison after he admitted hacking into the Facebook account of a US citizen, and accessing private messages.
Gareth Crosskey, of the village of Sompting, near Lancing, in West Sussex, was jailed yesterday after admitting he had hacked into a private Facebook account. [Read more...]

File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

The site has been largely inaccessible for the last 24 hours, and the service is intermittent in the UK. [Read full story...]

Agari released its first TrustIndex, a quarterly measurement that applies Agari’s big data insights to score email attack vulnerability and email trust by industry.

Similar to a credit score, the TrustIndex is a composite score on a scale of 1, lowest level of security, to 1000, the highest level of security.
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Here’s a tip for anyone planning to rob an internet cafe: remember to log yourself off Facebook before you make your getaway.

According to media reports, that was precisely the mistake made by one man who (with an accomplice) robbed an internet cafe at gunpoint north of Cali, Colombia recently. [Read more...]

Scytl announced today the successful implementation of its online voting encryption technology for use on Android and iOS.

By encrypting the ballot on the voter’s device before it is cast, Scytl is now able to guarantee end-to-end security – from the voter to the final tally – not only for computer-based online voting but also for mobile voting. [Read full story...]

Social media sites like Facebook are regularly being used to abuse teachers, says a survey.

Of the 1,500 teachers who responded, 42% reported things like insulting comments, allegations of inappropriate behaviour and having photos passed around the internet. [Read more...]

Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy alleged to be the spokesman for a notorious hacking group.

The boy is said to be a member of Team Poison, a group which claimed responsibility for more than 1,400 illegal activities.
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Two teenagers in Norway have been arrested in connection with a series of computer attacks.

Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) is believed to have been among their suspected targets. [Read full story..]

With desktop computers and Android mobile devices still big targets for hacks and cyber criminals, and Apple posting the highest number of reported vulnerabilities for its devices, IT security should be a prime concern at businesses large and small. [Read full story...]

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