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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
A is for antivirus: free software A-Z
Dirk Averesch There are some good programs out there that don't cost a thing.
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.
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.
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...
To catch your own thief
Chalpat Sonti A Perth man has developed software to help victims of laptop thefts track the whereabouts of their machines.
PM has betrayed me: Assange
Josh Gordon As the net closes around WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the notorious whistleblower has accused PM Julia Gillard of betraying him as an Australian citizen.
Beijing used hackers to find US secrets
Secret information sent by US diplomats to Hillary Clinton's State Department make clear that US diplomats suspect Chinese authorities have made use of private ''patriotic'' hackers to delve into US...
Website under constant assault
Dylan Welch WikiLeaks continues to duck and dodge powerful cyber assaults by seemingly patriotic hackers. The radical whistleblower website, led by its co-founder and editor, Julian Assange, has been forced to...
