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Why global action on cybercrime needed
International action to snuff out cybercrime is desperately needed, officials and business leaders say, warning that criminals move at internet speed while countries drag their feet.
By AAP | 27 January, 2012 12:16
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What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous?
Anonymous had a busy year in 2011 pushing its hacker-activist agenda on companies around the Web, to the point where just the sound of the hacker group's name can send shivers down the spine of many a CIO.
By Network World staff | 11 January, 2012 09:41
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2012 Outlook: The end of everything?
Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.
By Mark Gibbs | 09 January, 2012 16:30
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Turnbull's card details exposed by hackers
Millionaire MP Malcolm Turnbull and billionaire businessman David Smorgon have had their credit card details published on the internet by hackers.
By AAP | 29 December, 2011 10:22
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Hackers, like security vendors, are embracing the cloud; can you?
Large-volume hackers have become cloud pioneers, utilising public infrastructure to threaten companies that often effect ambitious but poorly-considered cloud-computing strategies, a security industry technologist has warned.
By David Braue | 01 December, 2011 08:40
Features about hackers
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Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs
Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.
By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06
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Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT
Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day.
By Dan Tynan | 16 March, 2010 04:01
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Are Hollywood hackers bogus or bright?
Quick: What's a hacker? A pimply faced teenager in a dark bedroom trying to start World War Three, or a thirty-something professional with mad computer skills?
By Robert McMillan | 25 February, 2010 14:08
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How dangerous could a hacked robot possibly be?
It seems like a question ripped from the back of a cheap sci-fi novel: What happens when the robots are turned against us?
By Robert McMillan | 08 October, 2009 18:54
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Steganography meets VoIP in hacker world
Researchers and hackers are developing tools to execute a new data-leak threat: sneaking proprietary information out of networks by hiding it within VoIP traffic.
By Tim Greene | 14 September, 2009 07:08
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