hackers

'WoW' accounts still susceptible to attack

News When the players visit the sites -- which are often unrelated to WoW, but that players frequent, Thompson said -- the software is quietly installed on their computers, allowing the hackers to spy on keystrokes and steal players' WoW passwords.

11 April 2007, 11:20 > More matches in News

New security proposed for do-it-all phones

News As mobile phones become digital do-it-alls, handsets need better protection from hackers and from unauthorised access when they're lost or stolen, says an industry group proposing new, hardware-based security standards for the devices.

28 September 2005, 9:50 > More matches in News

Invisible Security

Downloads A quick and easy way to protect sensitive information on your computer from children, employers, and anyone else who uses your computer, including hackers! Prevents all file access, even from the command prompt, and even from hackers.

17 February 2007, 23:31 > More matches in Downloads

Cisco warns of VoIP security flaws

News These weaknesses haven't been exploited widely by hackers yet. The most noteworthy flaw was reported on Tuesday when Cisco warned that hackers could cripple its IP telephony networks by exploiting flaws in its CallManager software, an essential...

15 July 2005, 9:33 > More matches in News

Delete Temp Files

Downloads The problem lies with hackers. Hackers are always trying to steal your personal information. Hackers know how to do this. Delete Temp Files is a program designed to delete all of your temporary files.

6 December 2006, 7:46 > More matches in Downloads

Mac OS X hacked in half an hour

News On 22 February, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set up his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer and delete files and...

7 March 2006, 11:05 > More matches in News

Microsoft confirms Vista hack

News According to a post by Microsoft senior product manager Alex Kochis on the Windows Genuine Advantage developers' blog, Microsoft has identified two ways in which hackers have broken the product activation security feature on original equipment...

13 April 2007, 10:28 > More matches in News

Gamers hacked off at Blizzard's 'invasion of privacy'

News Players sometimes cry foul about such practices, though, arguing that a game developer's need to keep out hackers doesn't outweigh customers' rights to privacy. Now you must fully trust that company with any data on your computer, because it's at...

15 August 2005, 10:27 > More matches in News

Apple: Avoid death -- integrate iPod with your car

Crave It's interesting that Apple is keeping an eye on what these hackers are up to with their Macs. Enterprising hackers without a trust fund and a flat in Chelsea could try examining the pinouts and rigging up their own interface.

Tags: apple, integration, mini, car

17 July 2006, 12:51 > More matches in Crave

Security guru slams the misuse of 'cyberterrorism'

News Schneier said governments around the world, despite having teams of specialist hackers on hand, were not attacking each other. Schneier added that worms and viruses are likely to become more sophisticated as hackers develop reconnaissance viruses...

27 April 2005, 15:31 > More matches in News

Build-it-yourself mobile phones do more

News But the mobile world is in a way the inverse of that curve: mobile phone use has already exploded all over the world, but it is only recently that falling component prices have made it practical for homebrew phone hackers to build their own.

16 November 2005, 8:59 > More matches in News

Sony's antipiracy scheme branded 'ineptware'

News Furthermore, say the antivirus companies, the rootkit software can be exploited by hackers and viruses and used to cloak any file from the operating system. Sony's use of techniques usually employed by hackers and virus writers makes it much more...

7 November 2005, 9:37 > More matches in News

Cybercrime threat keeps spiralling

News High-speed broadband connections, the proliferation of established PC technology, PDA devices and Wi-Fi and WiMax access all mean hackers have increasingly complex interfaces to attack. Schmidt said that whereas five years ago an attack might...

22 November 2006, 8:39 > More matches in News

Cyberterror 'overhyped', security guru says

News Cummings also said that hackers are already being employed by both organised criminals and government bodies, in what he termed the "malicious marketplace". It's a bad development, but there are definitely conduits between hackers and criminals...

24 November 2005, 8:47 > More matches in News

Foreign powers are main cyberthreat to UK

News Hackers motivated by kudos or money have "a variable capability" when it comes to attacks, Cummings said. The risk from criminals increases when they get into bed with hackers. The capability of terrorists will increase if they employ hackers," he...

23 November 2005, 8:58 > More matches in News