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Virtual world thief arrested in real life

Someone who obtained details of other people’s accounts to access a web-based role play game to steal their virtual world possessions has been arrested on suspicion of computer misuse offences. The...

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US web site scraping case proceeds to trial

A US court has ruled that a database builder who had been authorised by a client to scrape the client’s web site on a database built for it by a previous supplier may have been infringing copyright,...

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Clegg says it would be ‘morally right’ to try Gary McKinnon in UK

Nick Clegg, the new Deputy Prime Minister, has announced that it would be morally right to try Gary McKinnon in the UK rather than extradite him to the US. McKinnon is accused by the US authorities of...

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Hacker ordered to pay £20,000

A computer hacker has been ordered to pay £20,000 in fines, costs and compensation after he hacked into a number of student accounts at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He...

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PlayStation is not for hacking – Sony files legal action

Sony has filed proceedings in the Northern District Court of California against a number of hackers who published security codes for the PlayStation 3. The security codes effectively “sign” software,...

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Sony, pirates and Hotz stuff

As an update to my story on 27 January about attempts to circumnavigate Sony’s copy protection systems on its PS3 consoles (here),  Computer & Video Games magazine has just published an update from...

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Information Commissioner investigates Sony PlayStation data theft loss

The Information Commissioner is investigating the circumstances surrounding the loss of millions of people’s personal data, after Sony admitted that its PlayStation Network had faced a hack attack by...

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Hackers obtain personal data of 1.3 million Sega Pass users

Sega has admitted that 1.3 million users of its Sega Pass online game service have had their personal data obtained by website hackers. The details include names, email addresses, dates of birth and...

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… And they all fall down!

Remember the nursery rhyme, Ring a ring o’ roses, a pocket full of posies, atishoo, atishoo and they all fall down…… Like a pack of cards, the fall out from the phone hacking scandal continues to...

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ICO tells school to learn lesson of avoiding passwords for duplicate purposes...

Personal data belonging to 20,000 pupils, parents and teachers have been hacked after hackers (including one school pupil) on a school website managed to access the rest of the school’s systems. This...

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Facebook announces new security measures to protect users as it reveals...

Facebook receives a staggering 600,000 logins from impostors seeking to access users’ accounts. Facebook is concerned about its users’ security as an impostor can access all the user’s information, and...

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Suspended sentences music to ears of hackers into Sony Music

Two men have been given a suspended six months’ sentence by Leicester Crown Court for hacking into Sony Music’s servers to steal unreleased music from Michael Jackson’s unpublished catalogue. They were...

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Sony hammered for £250,000 – for being victim of hack attack on online...

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act. What did it do wrong? Not have sufficiently...

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Bad Michael Jackson fan hackers Don’t Care About Us

Two Michael Jackson fans, James Marks and James McCormick, have been sentenced to six months in prison and 100 hours’ of community service for offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The two MJ...

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Vodafone Germany suffers hack of two million customers’ details – but no need...

Vodafone Germany has suffered a compromise of its systems as hackers have stolen data concerning two million of its customers. The data included names, addresses, dates of birth, gender, sort codes and...

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Android bug affects “one billion” phones

Researchers at mobile security company, Zimperium, have discovered a bug in the Android mobile operating system, which affects nearly one billion devices. The flaw, says researcher Zimperium, exists in...

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Medical devices exposed to hacking

Thousands of medical systems including MRI scanners, X-ray machines and drug infusion pumps are exposed to hacking, creating major health risks for patients. That is according to security researchers,...

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TalkTalk hacking case leaves four million users’ data exposed

Four million people’s personal data have been exposed after what TalkTalk called a “significant and sustained cyber-attack”. The Information Commissioner’s Office have been looking into whether the...

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