The so-called "Howard hacker", who has apparently been reported to the Australian Federal Police, told ZDNet Australia that he is innocent of defacing the Liberal Web site.
China is host to almost half of the world's malware-infected Web sites.
Security experts are predicting a massive increase this year in so-called "Google hacking", whereby malicious Internet users or worms use the search engine to discover resources that are not intended for public consumption.
SCO, the ever-popular Unix company, has come under attack from hackers once again. This time they have replaced the front page of SCO's Web site with their own version that parodies SCO's legal battles over Linux.
A security breach is likely to delay for several days tonight's (AEST) scheduled release of the next version of the popular GNOME open source desktop environment, a member of the release team said.
The apache.org website suffered an intrusion over the weekend that resulted in the site being taken down.
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Australian company directors and officers are being warned of the damaging impact cybercrime can have if they don't address risks effectively.
Handset giant concedes the game-card code on its mobile phone/game deck has been "bypassed."
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