May 17, 2012 - Who doesn't love a good romance story? Oh, probably those who have ended up losing out on a lot of money. Read more
May 17, 2012 - A British man who spread a spyware Trojan horse posing as a patch for the popular video game "Call of Duty", has ended up with an 18 month jail sentence. Read more
May 17, 2012 - 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. Read more
May 15, 2012 - You don't have to be a criminal to realise that it's important to protect your Facebook account. So remember not to leave it open for anyone to access on an unattended computer. (continue reading...) Read more
May 15, 2012 - The judge who ordered blocks to Pirate Bay sites is alleged to have 1) a history of handing down verdicts that violate free speech and 2) been making some cash on the side by teaching alongside the plaintiff in an (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2012 - The Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica took its servers offline after they discovered $90,000 USD worth of bitcoins was stolen from its systems. This is the second time this year Bitcoinica have been targeted. (continue reading...) Read more
May 14, 2012 - The FBI, investigating bomb threats, seized the server of a group, known as May First/People Link (MF/PL), that offers encrypted data services to people fighting oppressive regimes. Four days later, they returned it. What is going on? (continue reading...) Read more
May 11, 2012 - File-sharing site The Pirate Bay has denounced an Anonymous DDoS campaign that took down Virgin Media, calling it an "ugly" method that's no better than the UK court order for ISPs to block users from getting to The Pirate Bay. (continue reading...) Read more
May 11, 2012 - Dutch court orders the Pirate Party, a political party in favour of free sharing of information and data, remove all links and workaround instructions on how to bypass the ISP block on The Pirate Bay. (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2012 - A teenage boy, believed to go by the online handle "MLT" and to be a member of the notorious TeamPoison hacking gang, has been arrested by British police. Read more
May 10, 2012 - Myspace settles charges with The FTC for sharing the private information and web browsing habits of its 25 million users with advertisers. Do you think it's enough of a slap on the wrist? (continue reading...) Read more
May 10, 2012 - Do you use the internet in hotels when travelling abroad? Do you think it's safe to do so? The FBI thinks you should be careful.. but is being surprisingly coy about the details. (continue reading...) Read more
May 9, 2012 - Two teenagers have been arrested in Norway in connection with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against websites in the country, and elsewhere around the world. Read more
May 9, 2012 - US neurosurgeon and low-carbohydrate diet guru Dr. Jack Kruse found himself unceremoniously plucked off a cruise ship and deposited on the shore after a tweet including his name mentioned a bio-terrorist attack against the ship. (continue reading...) Read more
May 8, 2012 - A firm at the centre of allegations that its affiliates flooded Facebook with spam and clickjacking attacks has agreed to clean up its act - after earning up to $1.2 million per month in gross monthly revenues. (continue reading...) Read more
May 8, 2012 - A 31-year-old US man from Atlanta, Georgia, admitted last week that he and his gang stole more than $1.3 million USD by phishing confidential account information from e-commerce sites. Read more
May 4, 2012 - With the Olympics coming to London, there may be opportunities for criminals, hacktivists and mischief-makers to make a high profile attack against the event's computer systems. But what about your own computers, and your personal data and finances? (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2012 - Hackers break into a Belgian bank, steal confidential customer information, and then blackmail the bank: pay us or we expose your customers' confidential data. Who is the real victim here? Read more
May 3, 2012 - Ooops. If you're running a terrorist organisation, it might make sense to encrypt your files. Clearly Osama Bin Laden didn't realise that - as some of the documents seized during the raid on his hideout in Pakistan have been made public (continue reading...) Read more
May 3, 2012 - UK Courts have forced big ISPs to block access to Pirate Bay, but the effort seems to have backfired spectacularly: the file-sharing site enjoyed "12 million more visitors than it has ever had" yesterday. Find out why... (continue reading...) Read more