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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

CCC demonstrates photo-based fingerprint reproduction

Advises politicians to 'wear gloves.'

December 29, 2014 | 10:20

Tor-busting techniques pulled from Black Hat schedule

Researcher's employer nixes presentation.

July 22, 2014 | 10:41

Intel pushing Make it Wearable challenge

Big prizes on offer for product ideas.

May 20, 2014 | 07:12

Novena laptop gets new stretch goals

Break-outs, open drivers and SDR promised.

April 24, 2014 | 10:22

Ministry of Defence unveils Joint Cyber Unit

Decides digital offence is the best defence.

September 30, 2013 | 09:43

Project Unity mod combines 15 consoles in one box

Taking retro game hacks to extremes, Project Unity combines 15 original consoles in one box.

April 18, 2013 | 20:02

White House announces National Day of Civic Hacking

Crackers need not apply.

January 24, 2013 | 10:25

'Bunnie' Huang designs hacker-friendly laptop

ARM-based machine boasts impressive power.

December 17, 2012 | 11:44

LulzSec hacking group disbands

Hacking group announces plans to disband, following scores of website security breaches.

June 27, 2011 | 13:19

Sony's Thai and Japanese sites hacked

Sony has succumbed to new hacker attacks in Thailand and Japanese.

May 23, 2011 | 10:21

Deus-Ex: Human Revolution site hacked

Square-Enix suffers hacker attack from Anonymous splinter group.

May 13, 2011 | 14:27

Study warns of UK Wi-Fi risk

A study commissioned by CPP warns that almost half of UK Wi-Fi networks are insecure.

October 15, 2010 | 10:30

HacKid teaches hacking to kids

A new hacker conference - HacKid - aims to teach children the joys of true hacking.

July 13, 2010 | 10:04

Hacker releases NAT traversal tool

The coder behind the Samy MySpace work has released a ulility which allows users to connect to another computer despite both being behind NAT routers - with potential P2P benefits.

April 5, 2010 | 08:11

Pwn2Own defeats Firefox, Safari, IE8, and iPhone

The Pwn2Own contest is under way, and the first day saw Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 8 all used to penetrate host systems.

March 25, 2010 | 14:08

Qi Hardware launches NanoNote

Qi Hardware has launched a $99, ultra-portable Linux-based handheld with an almost-full keyboard and the ability to boot custom operating systems - clearly a challenge to hackers.

March 16, 2010 | 14:01

Pwn2Own 2010 aims at smartphones

Pwn2Own - long a staple of the CanSecWest security conference - is putting more than half of its prize fund towards exploits in popular smartphone platforms.

February 17, 2010 | 11:14

TPM security cracked wide open

California-based security consultant Christopher Tarnovsky wowed audiences at the Black Hat 2010 conference with a presentation on how he broke the Trusted Platform Module.

February 10, 2010 | 13:59

N900 hacked to boot Android

Nokia's flagship N900 smartphone - built around the Maemo 5 operating system - has been hacked and made to boot Google's rival Android platform.

January 25, 2010 | 09:53

Hacker runs Ubuntu on Amazon Kindle

An enterprising hacker has successfully forced his Kindle 2 e-book reader to run the ARM port of popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

September 4, 2009 | 14:05

Researcher plans distributed GSM crack

A security researcher has announced an open-source distributed computing project which aims to generate a rainbow table for the A5/1 algorithm used in mobile 'phones.

August 26, 2009 | 15:15

iPhone SMS hijacking flaw fixed

A bug in the way the iPhone handles SMS messages which can lead to remote code execution - first spotted by security pro Charlie Miller - has been patched by Apple.

August 3, 2009 | 13:12