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  • Alleged Palin hacker indicted

    A 20-year-old college student suspected of hacking into one of US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email accounts was indicted Tuesday in the US, a district court announced.

  • NASA hacker loses legal challenge

    UK resident Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the US to face charges of hacking NASA and military installations.

  • Georgian president suffers cyberattack

    The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend.

  • Top 10 network hackers named

    Ten hackers or hacking groups have tried in total more than 1,000 times this year to breach the network security of Australian-based organisations, according to research by networking vendor 3Com.

  • Chinese gamer wins back virtual swag

    An online gaming company in China was ordered to return a player's virtual goods that had been hacked and stolen.

Blogs (4)

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    McKinnon's magician

    Who exactly is new Westpac IT executive Sarv Girn, who has newly been poached from Commonwealth Bank of Australia? Is he just a point man for the IT integration of St George, or is he "McKinnon's magician", the boy genius who will lead the bank to its IT nirvana?

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Baiting the Black Hats?

    The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?

  • Confessions of a naked Mac user

    I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    It's phishers, Doctor Jones!

    The new film Firewall is the latest in a long line of Hollywood hacker movies. But how do they rate in terms of accuracy and entertainment value?

Features and Case Studies (41)

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

  • Who's really responsible for hacker attacks

    A new book postulates that it's human error--not hardware or software glitches--that leaves networks vulnerable to attack.

  • Exposed server--magnet for hack attacks

    The amount of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one company set up an anonymous 'dummy test' server--and found it was maliciously attacked 467 times within 24 hours of being installed.

  • Hackers' code exploits Sendmail flaw

    A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list that can take advantage of a major vulnerability in the Sendmail mail server.

  • You've been hacked: what to do in the first hour

    The hair stands up on the back of your neck, and you feel the first bead of sweat roll down the side of your face: You've been hacked. But what do you do first?

Reviews (10)

  • Wireless security: Pringles peril

    Tracking down wireless hackers is getting easier, but there are still bugs to work out.

  • PC army tackles Xbox security code

    A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.

  • Naked network

    You may be enjoying the convenience of a newly installed wireless solution, but how many strangers are doing the same with your network?

  • Mobile phone hacking set to spread: AU experts

    United States-based security company @stake (atstake.com) has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.

  • Microsoft moves into chip world with Xbox

    There's a multibillion-dollar company moving into the chip business: Microsoft.

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