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Computer Crime

Criminals use the Internet too

It was only a matter of time before criminals figured out how to use social networking sites. Late yesterday, the AFP reported that there's a new phishing attack afoot that spoofs a YouTube link, and takes users to a page that...

World Bank Hacked, Sensitive Data Exposed

Hacked Web servers, a stolen administrative account, and lot of unanswered questions By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading The World Bank Group has been hit by a series of hacker attacks on its network over the...

Spurned by Apple, developer thrives in hacked iPhone market

Alex Sokirynsky, whose Podcaster application was rejected by Apple, has started successfully selling the app to iPhone owners who have hacked their devices to accept unauthorized third-party programs. The iPhone developer whose...

Photo Hack - How to Batch-Crop Photos!

Here’s a cool free Windows program called JPEGCrops that will let you batch-crop your photos while maintaining the aspect ratio. This sure beats editing each photo one by one with Photoshop. JPEGCrops is a Windows program,...

New Anti-ID Theft Effort Launched

Following on news from the Identity Theft Resource Center that data breaches have reached an all time high over the first eight months of 2008, a new venture involving government, private and educational constituents has been...

Smartphones and PDA users are more concerned with theft than hacking

According to a recent WStore survey, users of smartphones and PDAs are more concerned about losing their mobile computing device, or having it stolen, than they are about the risks posed by viruses, hackers, and other IT...

Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses

SAN FRANCISCO: Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker. But even...

U.S. proposes digital signing of DNS root zone file

It wants to make the DNS less susceptible to hackers October 10, 2008 (IDG News Service) The U.S. government is seeking input on a way to make the Internet's addressing system less susceptible to tampering by hackers. Under the...

Secure Wi-Fi

The whole aspect of security of wireless networks has become very important ever since terror e-mails were sent to media by alleged terrorists. We would advice corporates to go for WPA with EAP Authentication, TKIP / RC4...

Our Hackable Democracy

Want to be sure that your vote won't be miscounted, redirected or sabotaged in November's election? If you live in New Jersey, Dick Kemmerer suggests you might want to deliver your vote to the county clerk--written on a paper...

               

Subcategories

Hackers , Identity Theft