Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Sunni-Shiite tensions have been on vivid display in cyberspace as hundreds of religiously oriented websites on both sides have fallen prey to retaliatory hacking raids. The cyberassaults temporarily defaced websites of

Researchers expect hackers to prey on cell phones - Boston Globe
SAN FRANCISCO Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into “botnets” to pump out spam or attack other computers. Now security researchers say cell

Hackers ‘target mobile phones’ - MSN UK News
Mobile phones are likely to be the next target of criminal computer hacking gangs, scientists warned. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology said the growing power of phones has opened a new avenue of attack for hackers. Of particular

Smartphones hackers‘ weapons of choice? - Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Some of the most vicious internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into “botnets”to pump out spam or attack other computers. Now security researchers say cellphones

Hackers delight — A history of MIT pranks - Boston Globe
MIT’s legacy as one of the world’s most prestigious technical universities has a curious byproduct — a history of clever pranks, or “hacks.” For example, in 2007 MIT pranksters transformed a statue of John Harvard — the founder of Cambridge’s other

Hackers could target mobile phones, security experts warn - Daily Telegraph
As cell phones get more computing power and better Internet connections, hackers could capitalize on vulnerabilities in operating systems to create armies of “zombie phones,” according to a report from experts at Georgia Tech. Botnets, or networks of

Students hackers change FAMU grades - 10 News
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Three Florida A&M University students are facing federal charges of hacking the school’s computer system. A five-count indictment released Tuesday accused them of changing the grades of about 90 students, including raising

Al-Qaeda websites blocked - Straits Times
DUBAI - TWO of the main Internet sites used by Al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups have been blocked for the past six weeks, one totally unoperational the other pointing readers to the joker.com website. The sites, which had been used by Al-Qaeda to

Phishing goes back to basics for attack methods - Securecomputing.net.au
Phishers are adopting a back to basics’ approach with attacks. According to analysis of more than 20 billion internet threats by Network Box, the majority of emails sent by cyber criminals still deploy tactics designed to persuade the recipient

Hackers use top news stories from Google Trends Labs to increase their - Security Park
A new technique is being used by hackers to lure PC users to fake blog sites containing malware. For the first time, hackers are capitalising on the top news stories from Google Trends Labs, which lists the day s most frequently searched topics

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