Palin’s e-mail account hacker faces three fresh charges

May 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Twitter, the micro-blogging service, suffered another hole in its security after a French computer hacker got into its internal system and accessed accounts including that of US President Barack Obama. The hacker, posing as "Hacker Croll", uploaded a string of screenshots showing his access to the internal website settings.

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - Criminals are going to have a really tough time hiding their faces, thanks to a new software that can recreate their faces. The software is being used by approximately 15 police departments in the UK as well as half a dozen European countries, including France and Switzerland.

January 14th, 2009 When you or someone else enters an incorrect login multiple times then Yahoo! locks the account for security reasons and you are unable to access your chat names for the messenger also losing your only time for entertainment. Isn't it frustrating? Don't worry, now there is a method by which you can log into a locked Yahoo account.

March 27th, 2009 A teenager from New Jersey has been arrested after she uploaded 30 nude photos of herself to her MySpace page, and is now facing child pornography charges. The 14-year-old girl had posted the pictures to a social networking site "because she wanted her boyfriend to see them," a police spokesman revealed.

July 16th, 2009 If you ask me honestly abut Twitter in one sentence, Twitter is a service that is hardly reliable but very unique and interesting. Perhaps that was the USP which helped them in developing an enviable userbase despite having frequent server hangups and hacking attacks.

August 26th, 2006 Chief executive Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, who turned fugitive, has been tracked down in Sri Lanka by a private investigator based on a one-minute Skype call he made from Columbo. Alexander, aged 54, faces fraud charges over a stock options scandal involving the voicemail software firm he founded, Comverse.

October 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software can act as a new age sketch artist for police by helping witnesses recreate and recognize suspects using principles borrowed from the fields of optics and genetics. Christopher Solomon of the University of Kent in Canterbury, England is all set to introduce the software, called the EFIT-V system, which is being used by approximately 15 police departments in the United Kingdom and by a half dozen European countries, including France and Switzerland.

January 28th, 2009 MOSCOW - A man in Russia's Urals has admitted killing his wife after stumbling across her details on a dating website and discovering that she had cheated on him, Russian media has reported. The man, from the town of Lysva in Russia's Perm Territory, found that his wife had registered on the loveplanet.ru dating website as 'Angel'.

August 14th, 2009 Hacker used Twitter to control infected PCsSAN JOSE, Calif. — Twitter's been having a rough couple of weeks.

June 9th, 2009 T-Mobile: No security breach in alleged hacking BELLEVUE, Washington — T-Mobile USA Inc. said Tuesday that it did not suffer a security breach after a hacker claimed this weekend to have accessed the company's servers.

March 5th, 2009 Myspace has this annoying feature where your friends can see the last time you logged into your account. This may seem a trivial issue but suppose you have come to your account specifically for someone and don't want to entertain all your friends.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A cyber hacker who claimed to have stolen the medical records of more than 8.3 million residents of the state of Virginia is demanding $10 million for their return, the Washington Post reported.The FBI and state officials have confirmed that they are investigating the incident. The report Thursday came a week after someone managed to take over a Virginia Department of Health website that monitors prescriptions to track the sales of controlled substances.

July 7th, 2009 A look at Palin's postings on Twitter A look at some of Sarah Palin's postings on Twitter since she announced she was stepping down as Alaska governor: "We'll soon attach info on decision to not seek re-election... this is in Alaska's best interest, my family's happy...

August 26th, 2009 Cell phone users rack up accidental data chargesNEW YORK — Verizon Wireless is looking into ways to prevent subscribers without data plans from accidentally starting up the Web browser on their phones and racking up $1.99 in fees each time. On many phones, including ones on other carriers, it's easy to inadvertently hit a button that brings up the Web browser.

February 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Employees of Infosys Technologies may have to live with a salary cut and without any significant increment, even as the IT bellwether has virtually frozen fresh recruitments on account of the global meltdown, a top company official has said. 'A part of our salary is determined by variable sales component, which is the percentage of the company's revenue,' said Infosys' director for human resources T.V.