Linux not so pure and safe after all

For almost as long as there has been OS wars the mantra of the penguin herders has been that the likelihood of Linux ever being vulnerable to tings like viruses and trojans was next ... continue

British ex-cop owns a database of 40 million stolen identities

Stolen identities are traded on the web all the time. The information can be as simple as credit card information and email address or in some case complete records. It is this type of ... continue

UPDATE: New information on the Vaserv hack that wiped 100K sites

Earlier I wrote about how the UK based Vaserv.com was hacked and had over 100,000 sites deleted from their servers. At that time I, and other tech news sites, were under the ... continue

Twitter hacked – Again!

Not only is it having problems with their search but is seems that Twitter has once again been hacked if the above screen capture of Thomas Hawk’s Twitter post on Friendfeed is any example. ... continue

Kaspersky site hacked to exposed sensitive data

I can just imagine the howls of laughter and high fives (virtual ones of course) that must have been going on as hackers managed to crack the security of Kaspersky’s website this weekend. Apparently the breach cut ... continue

Revered Shiite Cleric’s Site Hacked

The official website of Iraq's most influential and revered Shiite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, was hacked, defaced, then blocked in what appears to be a sectarian-motivated cyber attack, the NYTimes.com reported. A statement on the ... continue