UK supermarket Safeway has been hit by a hacker who sent hoax emails to customers on the store's confidential database. The company's spokeswoman claimed that the hackers did not get hold of any personal or credit card details.
Passwords have to be set in a way they cannot easily be guessed because once a hacker gets hold of a laptop, he has all the time in the world to crack the machine open," added Hofacker. Laptops get stolen largely because they are easily targeted...
The denial of service attack on 20 September 2001, which was traced to a computer at Caffrey's home by US police, was allegedly aimed at taking a South African chatroom user called 'Bokkie' offline after she had made comments on IRC attacking the US.
Caffrey was arrested last year after US police traced a denial of service attack that crashed the Port of Houston's website in Texas to a computer at Caffrey's home in Shaftesbury, Dorset. The witness said there was no evidence of an attack and...
On 24 October we published this expose of the hacker chatroom. Hacker chatroom secrets exposed But it was the only one celebrating - for the rest of us it reminded us that the virus is now an indelible mark on the IT landscape.silicon.com threw a...
Wells said FaceTime traced specific signatures within various code associated with the exploit. Experts at FaceTime's security unit reported on Thursday that the hacker group has seized control of at least 17,000 computers across the globe.
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