How exactly does a young mum, aged 23, end up as a getaway driver in an armed robbery instead of going on a hot date with an old friend she reconnected with on Facebook?
In the teeny tiny town of Ferndale, about 20 miles north of Cardiff in Wales, Leah Gibbs was exchanging flirty messages with [...]
There’s a joke chain letter spreading between Facebook users right now.
Here’s what it says:
NEW PRIVACY ISSUE WITH FACEBOOK. As of tomorrow, Facebook will creep into your bathroom when you’re in the shower, smack your bottom, and then steal your clothes and towel. To change this option, go to Privacy Settings > Personal Settings > Bathroom [...]
Imagine my surprise this morning when I received an email from the second wife of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Safia Farkash al-Baraasi!
I suppose I wasn’t really surprised, as every time there is a major news event, tragedy or television spectacle, spammers and fraudsters use the topic to social engineer their victims.
The message itself was quite [...]
Reports surfaced on Wednesday that the US state of Maine - in the north-eastern tip of that country’s Atlantic seaboard - might have suffered a breach in its voter registration system.
According to Maine’s Bangor Daily News, a malware infection in a municipality might have given unlawful access to the state’s voter records.
Maine voter registration requires [...]
For the last two weeks, the media in Sydney, Australia, have been fascinated with a police investigation into a most peculiar crime committed in one of Sydney’s most prestigious suburbs.
If you’ve heard the name of the victim, Madeleine Pulver, you’ve probably heard the story behind the crime.
Imagine the scene.
Pulver is a final-year school student [...]
Late last month, we reported on an astonishing data breach in internet-crazy South Korea.
SK Communications, owners of popular search portal Nate and its web cousin Cyworld, a Sims-like social networking site, suffered an intrusion in which the personal information of 35,000,000 Korean users was compromised.
There are only 49,000,000 people in South Korea.
It seems the wheels [...]
A British man stole £35,000 (approximately US$ 55,000) from his neighbours’ bank accounts after determining their passwords via personal information they posted on Facebook.
Fortunately, there’s some advice which the rest of us (and indeed online banks) might take away from the story to make all of us more secure in future.
According to a Daily Telegraph [...]
The Hong Kong stock exchange come under attack for the second day in a row on Thursday.
The exchange blamed a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against its news web server, hkexnews.hk. Many investors rely on this site for up-to-date financial postings from companies trading on the exchange.
Charles Li, the chief executive at HKEx, [...]
A Norwegian hacking gang is said to have broken into two email accounts belonging to Anders Breivik Behring, the right-wing extremist who killed over 70 people in the country last month.
The gang, who call themselves Noria, is said to be led by a 17 year old youth and is reported to have handed all the [...]
Once again, hacking has turned political - with the website of the Ministry of Defense in Syria defaced by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.
Amid news reports of thousands of deaths in Syria after the authorities cracked down with deadly force using tanks and armoured vehicles against anti-government protests, visitors to the Syrian military department’s website have [...]