On Christmas Day, perfectly timed for the traditionally slow news week that leads into New Year’s Eve, the cyber hacktivist group Anonymous apparently hacked the Web site and internal servers of security consulting and risk management advisory firm Stratfor.

The systems which switch trains from one line to another could be shut down if encryption keys went astray.

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group said they are getting ready to publish emails stolen from private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc, whose clients include the U.S. military, Wall Street banks and other corporations.

The extra 13p will be added to the airport passenger security charge to help pay for improved security arrangements.

A well-known expert on mobile phone security says a vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones, instructing them to send text messages or make calls.

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Data-stealing malware is typically designed to send information from infected machines, to control them, and/or to open backdoors on them.

The activist hacker group Anonymous says it has stolen thousands of emails, passwords and credit card details from a US-based security think-tank.

This was an exciting year in the Internet security community, with big tech firms like Sony and RSA getting hacked and putting consumer data and corporate networks at risk, and reports of attacks on utilities, among other targets.

A hidden security risk that is often overlooked is the office printing environment.