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  • Season over for 'phishing'?

    The latest innovation in identity fraud typically begins with an unexpected e-mail message from a financial institution proclaiming something like: "Your account information needs to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports."

  • Data insecurity woes for Paris Hilton

    Like many consumers, Paris Hilton is having trouble protecting her own data. The entire contents of her mobile phone address book have turned up on the Internet.

  • Hackers divided over response to terrorism

    Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading for calm.

  • Microsoft Hack: The world according to Mitnick

    Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick is skeptical about some claims surrounding the Microsoft attack, including one that Microsoft itself was watching the hacker. Was there something fishy going on?

  • It's getting harder to hide in cyberspace

    The speedy arrest of the alleged author of the "Melissa" e-mail virus underscores a lesson for would-be cyberspace outlaws: It is getting harder to hide in the vast expanse of the Internet, especially for those who actively participate in electronic communities.

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  • Hackers: Under the hood

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

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