Stephen Fry hit by Twitter ID hack

Hackers are targeting Twitter users in a bid to steal personal information, says Sophos.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 06 January, 2009 03:11

Tags: identity theft, social networking, twitter

Apple's iPhone gets Linux

Hackers have managed to load Linux on to Apple's iPhone.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 02 December, 2008 08:43

Tags: mobile linux, iPhone

BT to kill 100Mbps fibre broadband?

BT is considering shelving its £1.5bn (US$2.2 billion) high-speed fibre optic broadband network.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 20 November, 2008 03:25

Tags: broadband

'Wacky' woman sells her own name on eBay

A UK woman is offering eBay users the chance to choose her name.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 14 November, 2008 10:12

Tags: ebay

US military: Twitter poses terrorist threat

Social networking service Twitter could be used by terrorists as a tool in planning attacks, the US military claims.

By Carrie-Ann Skinner | 29 October, 2008 09:08

Tags: twitter

Online banking fraud losses in the UK hit £21.4 million

Losses from online banking fraud in the UK hit a record £21.4 million in the first half of 2008 - an increase of 185 percent on the previous year, says the UK payments association, APACS.

Study: Common letters get more spam

Those whose names begin with common letter such as A, S, and M are more likely to receive spam that those who start with uncommon ones such as Z and Q, according to research.

Royal Bank of Scotland loses 1 million bank details

A laptop sold on eBay contained personal details of one million Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) customers, the bank has confirmed.

Hackers resort to 'sick' kidnap spam

Hackers are claiming they have kidnapped children in a bid to infect PCs with a Trojan Horse virus, says Sophos.

Scrabulous removed from Facebook again

Scrabulous, the controversial third-party Facebook app, has once again been removed from the social networking site.

Twitter stops SMS alert service in UK

Twitter has removed text message support for its U.K. users, blaming costs as the reason behind the decision.

UK gov't suffers 30 major security breaches

The U.K. government has suffered 30 breaches of security since November 2007, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reported.

Final release of Opera 9.5 goes live

The final release of Opera 9.5 is now available to download.

Linux users get Google Gadgets

Google Gadgets are now available for Linux users.

Britons arrested in illegal file-sharing case

Six Brits have been arrested for illegally sharing music files. Cleveland Police made the arrests on May 23 and 28 'in relation to uploading pre-release music' onto the now defunct BitTorrent tracker OiNK.cd. However, the exact offences they are alledged to have committed remain unknown.