The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon.

Az Apple szoftverfrissítése működésképtelenné teheti a függetlenített iPhone-okat. Beválik az ijesztgetés taktikája?

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone -- the first time the company has officially said it would fight attempts to use the popular device on unauthorized networks.

Több hírügynökség is megerősítette, hogy egy amerikai tinédzser függetlenítette az iPhone-t. Korábban a SIM kártya újraprogramozásával sikerült más hálózatokon használni a telefont.

A team of security experts in Baltimore, Md., said it has found a flaw in Apple Inc.'s iPhone handset that can be used by attackers to access private data stored on it.

Különösebb incidensek nélkül adták el az első iPhone-okat New Yorkban. A vásárlók között volt Whoopi Goldberg is.

Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the US$10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.

Apple Inc. issued a patch on Tuesday to close the hole found by the winner of a recent hack-the-Mac contest.

A SecurityFocus beszámolója szerint egy hacker közzé tette, hogyan lehet a Microsoft konzolján alternatív operációs rendszereket futtatni.

A new version of the Storm e-mail virus is populating blogs and online bulletin boards with links directing people to a Web site that is propagating the worm, representing a new mode of attack for hackers seeking financial gain, according to a security vendor that became aware of the virus Monday night.

A computer hacker claims to have broken the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption specification used to control unauthorized copying on HD-DVD and Blu-ray video players.

Hackers have released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Word software -- the third such bug to be disclosed in the past week.

Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.

A sokak által üdvözölt Google Code Search kezdeményezés jelenlegi formájában egyes vélemények szerint inkább a rosszindulatú hackereket segíti.

As anyone who's ever held forth in a barroom debate can attest, strange topics attract strange people.

An exploit in Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser has been found that can hijack the software and monitor submit-and-click events.

Két előadóval és a Vista operációs rendszerrel képviselteti magát a Microsoft Kuala Lumpurban a HITBSecConf2006 rendezvényen.

Microsoft Corp. plans to give a hacker conference in Asia an inside look at new security features on Windows Vista later this year, the organizer of the event said Tuesday.

Egy közismert "kalóz" letölthetővé tette az Xbox360 játékkonzol kezelőszoftverének megtört verzióját. A módosítás azért számíthat nagy sikerre, mert lehetővé teszi a másolt lemezek használatát. A Commodore4Eva néven ismert hacker állítólag már korábban is módosíotta a konzol sebezhetetlennek hitt firmware-ét.

Never mind worrying about hackers stealing your password. A security researcher with the Finnish military has shown how they could steal your fingerprint, by taking advantage of an omission in Microsoft Corp.'s Fingerprint Reader, a PC authentication device that Microsoft has been shipping since September 2004.