A British man has been jailed for a year for hacking a Facebook account of a US citizen.
Gareth Crosskey, 21, of Avon Close, Lancing, in West Sussex, hacked into his unnamed victim’s profile on 12 January 2011. Continue Reading…
The Pirate Bay confirmed it had been hit by ‘quite a big’ distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which sites to shut down by flooding them with traffic.
The Swedish site’s administrators said they had their ‘suspicions’ who was responsible. Continue Reading…
Amnesty International websites in the UK and Hong Kong have been compromised and now instead serve malware known as Gh0st RAT, security researchers have said. Continue Reading…
Developers of the vBSEO extension to the vBulletin forum software recently closed a critical vulnerability in their plugin. The vBSEO plugin adds search engine optimisation (SEO) functionality to the vBulletin core code. Continue Reading…