Hacking News

Forget credit card data - your personal data is the new currency, and it's worth millions, and mobile e-commerce sites will do what it takes to get their hands on it.

London - British parenting website Mumsnet is the latest organisation to have been hacked due to the "Heartbleed" bug, founder Justine Roberts revealed on Monday.

Ottawa - Personal data for as many as 900 Canadian taxpayers was stolen after being made vulnerable by the "Heartbleed" bug, officials in Ottawa said on Monday.

San Francisco - The "Heartbleed" flaw in Internet security is as critical as the name implies and wider spread than first believed.

San Francisco - Trust in the Internet took a major blow as alarm spread that software commonly used to encrypt and secure online transactions could wind up giving away the store.

San Francisco - Computer security specialists on Tuesday raised alarm about a freshly discovered bug in online data-scrambling software that hackers can turn to their advantage.

San Francisco - Microsoft has scrapped a policy which allowed it to peek at Hotmail messages to plug leaks or investigate intellectual property theft.

New York - Investors are pumping millions of dollars into encryption as unease about data security drives a rising need for ways to keep unwanted eyes away from personal and corporate information.

Washington - The dark world of cybercrime has evolved from one of rogue individuals to a functioning market-based economy with its ups and downs, code of conduct and "innovation."A study by Rand Corp.

Geneva - Hackers from across Europe flocked to Geneva this weekend, not to play havoc with Swiss computers but to test their ethical hacking skills.The sixth annual Insomni'hack ethical hacking competition, organised by IT security firm SCRT, drew over 300 hack...