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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

YouTube strikes infosec channels for 'instructional hacking' content

New rule sweeping up the white-hats.

July 4, 2019 | 11:29

'Inception Bar' hack tricks Google Chrome users

Android variant vulnerable to forgery.

April 29, 2019 | 11:35

Google begins targeting Safe Browsing 'repeat offenders'

Sites to be blocked for a month.

November 9, 2016 | 10:43

LastPass hit by LostPass phishing toolkit

Company claims browsers to blame.

January 18, 2016 | 16:34

Vodafone hit by data breach

1,827 customers affected, company says.

November 2, 2015 | 11:59

Microsoft denies Minecraft server breach

Leaked accounts likely phished.

January 22, 2015 | 09:17

Google hit by leak of five million accounts

Claims only a fraction are valid.

September 11, 2014 | 10:48

Sony's Thai and Japanese sites hacked

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

May 23, 2011 | 10:21

MS releases teen safety guide

Microsoft has released an e-book called "Own Your Space" to teach teens 'net safety.

September 10, 2010 | 09:26

Websense warns over OWA attack

Security firm Websense has issued a warning regarding a major attack against Outlook Web Access portals, designed to install a banking Trojan into company systems.

October 19, 2009 | 13:07

Spammers ramp up for Easter

Spammers are increasing their efforts as Easter approaches, with the percentage of messages rated as spam the highest since McColo was shut down.

April 7, 2009 | 10:01

4,000 Comcast passwords leaked

The e-mail addresses and passwords for over 4,000 Comcast customers found their way on to document sharing site Scribd.com for over two months.

March 17, 2009 | 11:10

Crackers steal Monster.com database

Crackers have successfully made off with a full copy of the user database for job site Monster.com - with all of its users' personal details stored therein.

January 27, 2009 | 10:03

Infinitiy Ward: Beware fake COD5 beta invites

According to Infinity Ward there are a number of faked Call of Duty 5 beta invites doing the rounds which are actually just phishing scams.

January 13, 2009 | 12:41

Twitter users attacked by phishers

Twitter users have been subjected to attack from a phishing gang operating out of China looking to harvest usernames and passwords, according to reports.

January 6, 2009 | 08:59

Apple releases Safari 3.2

Apple has released the latest build of its Safari browser, version 3.2, with anti-phishing protection from Google included alongside numerous security fixes.

November 20, 2008 | 09:45

Phishing attacks on the rise

In order to help combat the rise in phishing attacks across the web, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an educational game called Anti-Phishing Phil.

October 1, 2007 | 12:12

Think you're good at identifying scams? Try this!

McAfee has created a 10-question test to see if your scam-detecting skills are up to par.

July 27, 2007 | 12:44

Google anti-phishing gave out passwords

Quite a few people have been happy to trust Google's recent Anti-phishing plugin. What a surprise when it actually collected email addresses and passwords, which was available for all to see. Whoops!

January 23, 2007 | 14:51

Microsoft goes after phishers

Microsoft is taking even more people to court - but this time, it's a good thing. Gates' firm is going hammer and tongs after scammers.

November 23, 2006 | 10:32

Artists Against 419

Fed up of Nigerian 419 scam emails? A group called Artists Against 419 certainly are - they perform a virtual Flash Mob and aim to take down the fake banks' web hosting. White Hat or Black Hat? You decide.

November 8, 2005 | 13:12