T-mobile denies security breach after a hacker claimed to have accessed all the confidential information

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.

June 30th, 2009 Texas man accused of hacking into clinic computersDALLAS — A security guard is accused of hacking into computers at a Dallas medical clinic where he worked in hopes of launching a massive computer attack before or on July 4. Jesse William McGraw is being detained following his arrest Friday on a charge of downloading malicious code into a computer without authorization.

May 21st, 2009 BEIJING - An acclaimed Internet scientist has said that there is no way hackers could access top-secret data by penetrating the firewalls of military on government networks. Former National Computer Network Emergency response team's Director Professor Fang Binxing said there is no scientific basis to blame either China's military or the government for hacking other nations' networks because most of them are "out of reach".

July 22nd, 2009 UK journalist: James Murdoch approved settlementLONDON — A journalist has told a British parliamentary committee that News Corp. executive James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, approved an out-of-court payment to settle a controversial phone hacking case.

June 17th, 2009 BEIJING - China's lack of preparation against cyber terrorism has left the country "extremely vulnerable," to it, Chinese defence analysts have warned. "In the age of information, a nation's security would be at serious risk if its information systems were attacked, or the flow of information were interrupted," said Yu Xiaofeng, a specialist in non-traditional security at Zhejiang University.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes. Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.

May 17th, 2006 Blue Security came with an innovative solution to target spammers - by spamming them with opt-out requests. It worked surprisingly well and spammer's were naturally not happy.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday admitted that there have been attempts at hacking into the computers of the Indian embassies, but underlined that it has taken a slew of measures to ensure no sensitive information was stolen in the process. 'We have been through this process before,' Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a security language to protect home networks from cyber attacks. Companies, banks and other organisations take internet security very seriously, erecting firewalls and IT departments to protect them from attacks.

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.

April 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A new study has warned that Britain is breeding a generation of computer hackers with one in three teenagers admitting that they would commit cyber crimes for money. According to a report in the Telegraph, a third of those polled said they would consider hacking or spying on the Internet if they could earn money by doing so.

May 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A major reason why mobile phones have been relatively free of virus attacks is that the market is widely split, unlike in computer software, where one firm controls a large chunk of the market, scientists point out. If you own a computer, you are likely to be familiar with a nasty virus attack at some point.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Over 2.5 crore owners of cheap handsets, that stood to be banned in India as these did not have the regulatory unique 15-digit identity code, can breathe a sigh of relief -- help is on the way. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the organisation representing GSM service operators, Monday said it has developed a software that can embed the code - known as International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) - in these handsets.

May 30th, 2006 Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday. The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Tennessee University student, who was accused of hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account, has been framed with three fresh charges apart from the charge of alleged hacking. David Kernell, the son of Democratic Tennessee state legislator, was charged with unlawfully transmitting electronic information, fraud and attempting to impede an FBI investigation.