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A group of researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have come up with a new way of manipulating electronic voting machines from a remote location. Shockingly, the e-voting machines hacked by the researchers,...

A team of security researchers from Princeton University have listed cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) threats on four prominent websites, including YouTube, MetaFilter, ING Direct and the New York Times.Although, YouTube,...

Social networking websites can turn out to be a potential platform for hacking attacks, a new research claimed. A team of security researchers from the Foundation for Research and Technology, Herakolin, Greece has illustrated...

Now here's an irony. It seems that hackers have broken into the Homeland Security Department's telephone system in the US last weekend and chunked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.According to the Associated...

A major new security risk, concerning ‘DNS cache  poisoning’, has been discovered which can reroute web browser and email traffic to fraudulent criminal servers without the security protection in place being...

Oyster Card Security Issues could join Signal Failures and Trade union disputes in the list of significant problems that Transport for London could be facing in the forthcoming months. A ruling in Netherlands now means that...

Up to 500,000 web pages and thousands of websites including some belonging to the United Nations could have been hacked thanks to a security issue in Microsoft's Web server according to one security firm. The attack started last...

In a new report released by European information technology analysis group, Quocirca, organisations that admitted to being frequently hacked, all outsource at least some of their coding practice, with 90 percent outsourcing more...

"Hannaford supermarket data breach in the US, in which as many as 4.2 million customers card details appear to have been downloaded, was almost certainly the result of malware that exploited a code flaw." reports...

In a hacking contest pitting a Macbook Air laptop loaded with OSX 10.5.2, a Sony Laptop living with Vista Ultimate SP1 inside, or a Linux box running Ubuntu 7.10, the Mac platform was hacked within 2 minutes by one of the...

A New Zealand based security consultant has unveiled a piece of code that can crack most Windows based computers within seconds without the need of a password.New Zealand has a long culture of black hat and white hat hacking and...

GnuCITIZEN has posted a detailed FAQ about a newly found Flash uPNP hack which could eventually lead the attacker to control a victim's router, regardless of the brand and model of the device. The attack does not rely on any...

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet could contain a "serious security vulnerability" according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (Via Wired)."Because of this new passenger connectivity, the...

The Crown Prosecution service has released guidelines that will amend the current Computer Misuse Act and make the creation and distribution of hacking tools illegal, according to The Register.The actual working says...

Here's a spot of good news if you've got a recently-purchased iPhone, or are waiting on the impending release of the iPhone in the UK - it seems that Apple's uncrackable 1.1.1 firmware update has been cracked at last.According to...