December, 2010

The top 50 passwords you should never use

Are you one of the many people who is using a dangerously easy-to-guess password?

Google Adds Warnings About Hacked Sites

Google said it hoped to improve this situation for its search engine.

Pro-Wikileaks activists abandon Amazon cyber attack

These Anonymous attacks are like riding a bull, they can change wildly and at a moment’s notice”

Royal attack prompts questions on UK security

It was a wrong-place, wrong-time brush with danger: Protesting students – some chanting “Off with their heads!” – attacked Prince Charles and his wife Camilla as they rode in their vintage Rolls-Royce to a charity event at a London theater.

Web Attackers Find a Cause in WikiLeaks

They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making mischief than political statements.

Hackers hit Mastercard and Visa over Wikileaks row

The attacks came after the Anonymous group of hackers pledged to pursue firms that have withdrawn services from Wikileaks.

Wikileaks: Australia FM blames US, not Julian Assange

Mr Rudd said he did not “give a damn” about criticism of him in the cables.

Russian man pleads not guilty to global spam scheme

A Russian man accused of operating an e-mail spam business that at times accounted for one third of global spam has pleaded not guilty in a federal court in the US state of Wisconsin.

WikiLeaks: Chinese Politburo responsible for Google hacking

You had to know something interesting would come out of the quarter million diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks just, well, leaked late on Sunday, and the New York Times has picked out a doozie for us.

Safety body pinpoints Rolls aero engine defect

Australian safety officials stepped up pressure on aero engines maker Rolls-Royce on Thursday, pinpointing a “potential manufacturing defect” in its Trent 900 engines and demanding it make them safe.