New York Post - Martin Kleintjes, the head of the New Zealand police computer-crime unit, said the 18-year-old had written software that evaded normal antispyware systems, then sold his skills to international hackers. He added the youth, who is known by his cyber

QuickTime zero-day attacks intercepted
ZDNet Blogs - The discoveries come as researchers warn that QuickTime has emerged as a big target for vulnerability researchers and malicious hackers. Not counting silent (undocumented) fixes, Apple has patched at least 32 security flaws affecting QuickTime in

MI5 warns over China spy threat
BBC News - China’s highly sophisticated technologies make it a world leader in computing. Earlier this week, China said that it too had been attacked by computer hackers. Meanwhile, other experts say that hackers outside of China may be using the country’s

Cisco Unified Communications
Washington Post - The problem was that these numbers were heavily targeted by hackers, and once a DISA code was hacked, thousands of dollars in long distance charges could be incurred in a very short amount of time. The previous solution was to issue calling cards to

Britons get 20 billion junk emails every day
Daily Telegraph - Graham Cluley, a technology consultant at Sophos, the web security firm, said that hackers had realised that most computer users were no longer fooled by clicking on email attachments that offered cheap Viagra or pornography. Instead they were now

Recipient E-mail
DailyTech - If I were to look into the future, I would guess that as Firefox continues to gain in popularity, it will be attacked more and more by hackers. The question then becomes, if Firefox is for example just as popular as IE, does Mozilla have the

What’s going on with these four?
Chicago Sun-Times - The company said the Chinese government has hired hackers to help in a future “cyber Cold War” to cripple computer systems of other countries. China hotly denied the charge, but Curious Investor is left with a couple of thoughts. One is MFE can kiss

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