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  • Twitter hack strikes Obama, Britney Spears

    An unknown party has hacked into the Twitter accounts of high-profile users of the micro-blogging and social networking service such as US President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News anchor Bill O'Riley.

  • Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack

    A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.

  • WPA Wi-Fi encryption cracked

    Researchers have found a method of cracking a key encryption feature used in securing wireless systems that doesn't require trying a large number of possibilities.

  • Best Western details hotel hack

    The Best Western hotel chain has given details of a hack involving one of its hotels, but downplayed reports that eight million customers have been affected.

  • London's Oyster card easy to hack?

    A Dutch researcher rode free on the London transit system, having hacked the public transit's card system; he used a clone of a paying passenger's transit cards. His point? The transit smartcards, which are used by millions worldwide, are vulnerable to attack.

  • Georgian president suffers cyberattack

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

  • Lithuanian websites hacked by Russians?

    Last weekend, several hundred Lithuanian websites were defaced with pro-Soviet and anti-Lithuanian slogans, according to The New York Times.

  • Apple's Leopard hacked in 30 seconds

    Apple's Leopard has been hacked within 30 seconds using a flaw in Safari, with rival OSes Ubuntu and Vista so far remaining impenetrable in the CanSecWest PWN to OWN competition.

  • Apple plugs 'gone in 30 seconds' Safari flaw

    Apple has released another round of security patches for its Web browser this week, targeting a vulnerability which allowed a Macbook air to be hacked and two deficiencies in the Windows-only version of the software.

  • DNS disaster: first attacks reported

    The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported.

  • Hackers hijack ICANN sites

    On Thursday, the domains used by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, were hijacked to redirect users to a protest message.

  • Hackers release iPhone 2.0 jailbreak

    A little more than a week after the release of Apple's iPhone 3G, an unofficial development team has announced the release of software that "jailbreaks" the new device, allowing unauthorised third-party applications to be loaded.

  • Australian cybercrime goes under the microscope

    The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has launched a new study into the effects of cybercrime on Australian commerce by commissioning a survey of more than 10,000 businesses across the country, seeking information about their experiences with online transgressions and what is being done to prevent them.

  • Security spend triples, breaches fall 30 percent

    A UK government-sponsored security survey reports that security breaches have fallen by a third in the past two years but spending on security has increased significantly.

  • Macs are easy to hack: researcher

    "Macs are as easy to hack as they are to use", according to researcher Charles Miller.

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