A Chinese court announced imprisonment of up to three years to 11 persons on December 16, 2009 for their alleged role in the creation and distribution of computer virus that had the capability of stealing usernames and passwords of online games.

21-year-old Mormon college student from Nauvoo has shut out scores of other gifted computer hackers to win the U.S. Cyber Challenge.

Watching the feeds, one’s can often face the news that another Twitter account of some Britney Spears, John McCain and others of that ilk was hacked. Typically, these hacks do not make much effort and are hacked using “brute force” (stars like to set some simple passwords). But brute force – is not our method. British comedian, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "V - for Vendetta" film star, Stephen Fry, can be taken as an example

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A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and has since gone offline, according to screenshots posted on the Web.

Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over the past week.

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated.

A San Francisco startup plans to release software for the five major smart-phone operating systems to protect data, detect malicious software and allow remote backups.

Security experts are warning that hackers are now using Microsoft’s Live Spaces blogging platform in order to push up the popularity of fraudulent online pharmaceutical sites in a strategy known as search engine poisoning.

With increasingly stringent compliance mandates, the explosion in virtualization interest and adoption, demands for audit reporting, and a spike in security breaches, 2009 has been a dynamic year for the IT security and compliance world.

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the criminals have taken the next step and begun setting up their own virtual data centers.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued new internet regulations which could mean that many overseas web sites will be unavailable to Chinese readers.

Do you enjoy dominating your house like the Trinity killer on Dexter, knowing exactly what each of your family members are doing at all times? Then Swann has the four camera security system for you.

U.S. authorities are investigating the theft of an estimated tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by hackers partly using Russian software tailored for the attack, according to a news report.