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Two supposedly secure email services, Silent Email and Lavabit, closed within a matter of hours of each other, with concerns about government pressure over 'high-profile' users of the services.

Paul Ferson · Aug 9, 2013 · Hot! with 18 comments

A DNS change has put 284 webpages at a weakness to hackers. Among the pages defaced by a group of seemingly Turkish hackers are the eBay, Microsoft and Google sites. No groups claim responsibility.

Paul Ferson · Nov 24, 2012 · Hot! with 9 comments

At the ShmooCon hacker conference, researchers with security firm IOActive claimed a design bug in the system used by Windows PCs to obtain proxy settings could let attackers hijack traffic. Internet Explorer on Windows PCs...

· Mar 25, 2007 · Hot! with 11 comments

Marc Schoenefeld has reported a weakness in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose some system information. Opera accesses the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) directly instead of using the Java plugin. The...

· Nov 22, 2004 with -1 comments

Shrinking PlayStation 2 shipments and sales send revenues from the game division tumbling. Sony Corporation reports that the game division of Sony's developement reduced sales of Playstation 2 hardware as well as...

· Jul 28, 2004 with -1 comments

Flaws in the filtering technology used by Web-based email services make it possible for hackers to smuggle viruses past defences. Israeli security outfit GreyMagic Software warned today that this "severe security" vulnerability could allow attackers...

· Mar 23, 2004 with -1 comments

In a 17th-floor corner office in north Toronto, a group of computer nerds is feverishly attacking Corporate Canada -- and getting paid for its efforts. "If you have a system on-line, you will...

· Aug 5, 2003 with -1 comments