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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...
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.
Malware shuts down internet for many, but was it overhyped?
Samantha Murphy Although a nasty piece of malware called DNSChanger was set to kick thousands of Mac and PC users off the internet on Monday, no major companies experienced issues related to the so-called "Doomsday...
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.
Facebook personal tracking hits snag
Jason Lewis FACEBOOK is facing curbs on how it exploits its users' most personal information to create bespoke advertising.
WA government open to cyber attacks: report
At least 14 West Australian government agencies don't have the adequate systems in place to detect or respond to a cyber attack, the state's auditor general has found.
A is for antivirus: free software A-Z
Dirk Averesch There are some good programs out there that don't cost a thing.
Act to safeguard your voicemail
Adam Turner Australians are vulnerable to the security threats behind the British phone-hacking scandal, writes Adam Turner.
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.
Dumped computers exploited in overseas fraud
Natalie O'Brien CRIMINAL networks are feeding off Australians' lust for new technology by skimming data from computers dumped in Africa and Asia - and using it for blackmail, fraud and identity theft.
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...
'There's a lot of hate being spewed': hacker 'Sabu' was an FBI plant for months
Even as he urged tens of thousands of Twitter followers to rise up and attack government and law enforcement, the most wanted hacker on the planet was working for the FBI.
'I'm past the point of no return': inside hacker's world before becoming FBI plant
At the large public housing project in New York City where he lived, outsiders knew him as a quiet family man.
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.
Police to cruise streets for unsecured Wi-Fi
Marissa Calligeros The Queensland Police fraud squad will be the first in Australia to go on "wardriving" missions to help residents protect their wireless internet networks.
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.
