You’ve Been Hacked : Lessons to be learnt

At the Pwn2Own competition held in Canada, some French hackers were able to crack open Google's chrome sphere, quicker than any other browser - in under five minutes. The hackers in question were no underground anons, or roller...

Details regarding hacktivist group Anonymous' latest strike on Stratfor, a US based security think tank, have started emerging. Anonymous hackers breached into the network of Stratfor earlier last week, and managed to steal...

Industry experts have predicted that Apple's Safari web browser will be the first to succumb at next month's Pwn2Own hacking challenge in Vancouver. The event sees hackers from the world over take a crack at the latest web...

A handful of geeks have managed to make what appears to be the first iTouch call. They relied on a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) application developed for the Nintendo DS gaming console to conduct the hack.The user...

In a 4 day event spanning from the 22nd to the 25th of September, Terra Soft will host a 6 node PS3 cluster and hands-on workshop for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux, compute image deployment via Y-HPC, and use of Torque and...

Accused NASA and Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon has won the right to appeal to the House of Lords over his extradition to the US. The Lords will hear his case, even though they recently refused to hear another US extradition case,...

Privacy has got to be the security buzzword of 2007.  All out war has been declared by the subversives to use any means necessary to capture everyone’s personal details. Privacy is so paramount that even the...

Well, now there's a surprise. The Playstation 3 has been hacked to allow users to play copied versions of PS3 games, which I'm reliably told can be downloaded and burned to disk for under a fiver.Compared to the 50 quid or...

I was mildly amused to read that the Angry Young Hackers, a hacker group from Sweden have hacked into The Pirate Bay (TPB), the well-known BitTorrent indexing site.According to the UPI newswire, the hackers have stolen a database...

Scientists in Germany are reported to have developed a utility that allows an unauthorised PC to disguise itself as a legitimate client in a Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) environment.The result, speakers at the Black Hat...

I was interested to read on the wires that Apple's multimedia box, the $300 Apple TV, released in the US last week, is already being hacked to turn it into a fully-fledged computer.The unit, which has a 40 GB hard drive and...

It seems that the hack of TJX Group's computer system reported last month was more serious than the company first thought.Investigations by IBM and General Dynamics into the company's systems - which covers store chains TJ Maxx,...

Silicon.com reports that Russian hackers have stolen €800,000 from Sweden's largest bank Nordea after a sophisticated phishing attack tricked some of its internet customers into downloading a Trojan horse that recorded their...

Terra Soft Solutions is proud to host the first ever Cell processor "hack-a-thon" at Terra Soft's headquarters in Loveland, Colorado, January 20-26.Glen Otero, Ph.D., Chief Scientist at Terra Soft describes this week long event...

A man in Manchester has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people's money after using the machine to read card details.Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the...