Hackers news stories - Page 5

Smartphone
South Korean mobile network hacked
Millions of mobile phone users in South Korea suffer security breach during five month hacking spree across the country.

Amazon
Web hacker faces US extradition
'Cyber bandit' arrested amid allegations of security breach.

Cybersecurity
Symantec patches up pcAnywhere
Remote access tool good to go provided it's fully updated and patched, software vendor says.

Google
How safe is your password?
If it's on this list of the 25 most common passwords, the answer is, not very.

Gaming
Hackers strike Steam
Gabe Newell, one of the founders of the game distribution site, says it is as yet unknown whether or not the information has been used.

Robotics
Happy Nerd New Year!
Spinal Tap fans will want to turn it up today, because it is the eleventh of the eleventh of 2011, or what one Californian group has dubbed Nerd New Year.

Cybersecurity
LulzSec claims an end to hacking campaign
One LulzSec member said over a Skype interview that the dissolution due to boredom, not FBI.

Cybersecurity
Hacker vigilante hits the slammer
48 year old Bruce Raisley, a computer hacker once involved with the NBC show To Catch a Predator was sentenced to two years in jail.

Cybersecurity
Hackers likened to drug dealers
Today’s cyber warriors are still focused on stopping bad guys at the gates and continue to lose the hacking war.