hackers

Hackers crash 'EverQuest II' economy

News Sony claims that a group of hackers illegally created a huge amount of EverQuest II currency over the weekend, and says the players caused the game's economy to suffer 20 per cent inflation in just 24 hours before being caught.

12 August 2005, 10:55

News.blog: Hackers 'jailbreak' iPhone 2.0

News It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said on Tuesday it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone's bootloader by taking...

Tags: apple, released, memory, iphone

13 March 2008, 9:30

Hackers find chinks in Xbox 360's armour

News Only weeks after the introduction of the Xbox 360, hackers appear to have cracked their way into the software that runs the next-generation Microsoft game console. We hope this encourages all hackers, coders and crackers out there to take up the...

19 December 2005, 9:52

Microsoft wants to meet more hackers

News Microsoft wants its 'Blue Hat' date with hackers to become a regular affair, with twice-yearly events where outsiders demonstrate flaws in Microsoft's product security. In March, Microsoft invited several hackers to its Redmond, Washington...

2 August 2005, 10:11

Sony struggles to keep hackers off PSP

News Hackers have cracked piracy protections on Sony's PlayStation Portable in the US, the latest chapter in the company's battle to block unauthorised game use on its new handheld device. The world's top maker of video game consoles has rolled out a...

7 July 2005, 13:29

Mobile porn sites likely target for hackers

News Speaking at the Virus Bulletin conference in Dublin, Graham Cluley of Sophos questioned whether malicious hackers would be able to target mobile phones in the same network cell. Network operators and companies looking to provide pornography or...

25 October 2005, 11:44

Microsoft shows Vista security to hackers

News This year's confab is expected to draw about 3,000 people, a mix of security professionals, underground hackers, federal agents and vendors. Cisco and ISS sued Lynn after his presentation, and hackers rallied behind the researcher.

2 August 2006, 11:26

University entices hackers with new course

News In the same way that police detectives need to know how thieves can steal, computer systems administrators need to know what hackers can do," states the university prospectus. A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish...

20 June 2006, 11:03

World Cup braces for hackers

News FIFA's networking partner Avaya is expecting hackers to launch attacks against the World Cup's network, as the first game of the long-awaited football tournament in Germany draws closer. He earlier told a group of journalists that white hat hackers...

9 June 2006, 11:31

Hackers should spend more time in prison, say MPs

News A committee of MPs has thrown its weight behind an attempt to introduce longer jail terms for hackers. The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), a group of tech-savvy MPs, said it welcomed a Ten Minute Rule Bill presented by MP Tom Harris...

15 July 2005, 10:45

Pentium 4 loophole could let in hackers

News Intel is acting to calm fears that technology in its Pentium 4 processors will enable hackers to steal passwords by reading 'footprints' in the cache. Hyperthreading, introduced in Intel's Pentium 4, could allow hackers to access secure information...

17 May 2005, 10:27

'San Andreas' publisher blames sex mod on hackers

News Instead, the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary said the mod was the result of "the work of a determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game".

14 July 2005, 10:55

Hackers to test OS vulnerability

News Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The contest is being run by the organisers of the CanSecWest security conference as a repeat of 2007...

Tags: laptops, linux, operating systems, macbook

8 February 2008, 9:17

Java flaws open door to hackers

News Sun Microsystems has fixed a pair of security bugs in Java that could be exploited by attackers to take over computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris. The flaws are 'highly critical', security monitoring company Secunia said in an advisory...

15 June 2005, 10:10

Firefox promo site taken down by hackers

News SpreadFirefox.com, the marketing Web site for the open-source Firefox Web browser, has been hacked again and is expected to be offline until later this month. The cyber break-in was discovered this week, according to a notice sent on Tuesday by the...

5 October 2005, 10:26