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The biggest companies in business have been embarrassed by security breaches and many more are guilty of covering this up to guard their clients and customers from knowing. Any small to medium sized business that can claim absolute security from hackers is rare. One of the cover stories of a recent issue of Vanity Fair outline that the threat to American business may stem from Chinese sources. The threat of hacker activity is no longer simply malware exploiters but an orchestrated campaign of strategic business sabotage.

British, French, German, Austrian and Italian sites were down for about 30 minutes on Sunday during a peak pre-Christmas shopping period. A group of cyber activists, Anonymous, is hitting firms that withdrew services from whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. There has been no official comment from Amazon or from Anonymous. Amazon sites ending .it, .de, .uk, .fr [...]

The website of MasterCard, the international credit card, has been hacked and partially paralyzed by hackers, in apparent revenge for the payment network’s decision to cease taking donations to WikiLeaks. A group of online activists calling themselves Anonymous appear to have orchestrated a DDOS (“distributed denial of service”) attack on the site, bringing its service [...]

Apple’s new Apple TV is starting to arrive at buyers’ homes. So it’s time to officially commence the Apple TV hacking and jailbreak movement! That is, it’s time to start tinkering around with making apps for this thing before Apple gives everyone the keys. The new Apple TV does NOT come with an app developer [...]

The PS3 is the only games console that has not been hacked, despite being on the market for more than three years. A group of hardware hackers claim they are about to release the first product to allow gamers to play homemade and pirated games on the PlayStation 3. At this moment, a group called [...]

In all scams involving finance, Check fraud is one of the oldest in the book. Hence, it is humbling when it takes on a millennial spin. According to the Associated Press, the latest trick is: Hack into online servers that store images of scanned checks — the images your bank saves as a convenience for [...]

In Las Vegas, an elite US cyber team that has stealthily tracked Internet villains for more than a decade pulled back its cloak of secrecy to recruit hackers at a notorious DefCon gathering on Sunday. Vigilant was described by its chief Chet Uber as a sort of cyber “A-Team” taking on terrorists, drug cartels, mobsters [...]

Security really matters to everyone who uses computer and internet. The agency responsible of supervising Internet addresses has teamed with online security services firm VeriSign and the US Department of Commerce to provide websites encrypted identification to prove that they are legal. DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) has been tasked to identify code to [...]