Technology
Organised crime gets smart with technology
Ilya Gridneff NSW's top crime-fighting agency has admitted it is being outsmarted by criminals who use BlackBerry phones and online telephone services such as Skype to prevent their illicit conversations being...
Online payments go face-to-face
Shoppers will soon be able to pay in-store via their PayPal account using a new app that takes a human approach to facial recognition technology.
Taking control of the Twittersphere
Sylvia Pennington Twitter has cemented its influence in business but who do you entrust your company Twitter image to?
More than a pretty phrase
Adam Turner With just a little bit of effort and carefully clever passwords, you can protect yourself from hackers.
Finding high-tech flaws for fun and an optional profit
Ben Grubb NATHANIEL CAREW makes a living protecting computer systems. In his spare time, he hacks into Google.
Opening Facebook to kids would help mobile ad revenue
Sam Laird Facebook is reportedly looking to open a membership option for kids younger than 13.
Crikey! We've been hacked
Michael Lallo News website Crikey has been hacked with editors warning readers not to visit its home page until it has been fixed.
Slice of Silicon Valley as social media moves in
Carolyn Cummins DOTCOMS are back. A decade after they fled from their large, funky offices leaving North Sydney a ghost town, they are now back filling the office void caused by the shrinking corporate sector.
Practise the web safety you teach
Ainslie MacGibbon The young people may not listen but every school and institution dealing with them advises careful consideration of what information they post online.
Police flag more hacking arrests
Vincent Morello Police expect to make more arrests over one of Australia's biggest online hacking attacks, which they say could spread to companies overseas.
Software takes brain power out of hacking
Asher Moses EVEN if David ''Evil'' Cecil is guilty, he is not necessarily a hacking mastermind. Computer security professionals say breaking into websites and computer networks is now as simple as downloading...
Police charge lone hacker over NBN plot
Saffron Howden AN UNEMPLOYED truck driver with the online moniker ''Evil'' hacked into one of the national broadband network's service providers and had control of its entire system for at least six weeks, police...
Look who's watching: it's not the FBI, it's Facebook
Stored inside a series of ordinary brick buildings beside a sprawling wasteland on the edge of San Francisco Bay are intimate details of your life, relationships and opinions.
From private life to public knowledge
One morning this week, Facebook told me a friend had used a dating application the night before, one called Are You Interested? It told not just me, but all those it recognises as his friends.
Cooking, computers and hacking: school accused of global scam
Jonathan Watts Depending on your perspective, Lanxiang vocational school in Jinan in eastern China is either the heart of a secretive global hacking conspiracy or a second-rate educational factory that is best...
China denies mass hacking of Gmail accounts
John Garnaut, Sanghee Liu BEIJING: Chinese cyber warfare experts have denied charges their country was behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks on Gmail accounts, and say that it is China that stands ''naked'' against American...
Heat turned up on Google's privacy blur
Privacy commissioners in Asia Pacific have clubbed together to put the heat on Google over its controversial new privacy policy.
Hacker group LulzSec strikes again, exposes 171,000 military accounts
Salvador Rodriguez The hacker group known as LulzSec appears to be back after many months of laying low, claiming to have exposed the accounts of nearly 171,000 members of the military.
Samsung beats Apple smartphone sales
A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fuelled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter.
Time to reclaim your privacy, says philosopher
Catherine Armitage GOOGLE, Yahoo, Facebook and other commercial organisations that mine data on people's private activities should be required to regularly ''send us a report on what they have got on us'', the English...
