October 21, 2015 Number of hacker attacks on websites has sharply risen, report says The number of hacker attacks on websites has sharply risen, and most of them are originating from China, according to a new report on Internet activity.
October 21, 2015 Is it still safe to use Windows XP? After April 8, 2014, Microsoft will no longer support the Windows XP operating system.
October 21, 2015 Facebook scam promising naked videos infects millions Who doesn't want to see naked videos of his or her Facebook friends? That's the premise of a new malware-distribution scam that has infected 2 million people, according to Romanian anti-malware company Bitdefender.
October 21, 2015 NBC News takes heat over Sochi phone hacking report NBC News reports that electronics taken to the Sochi Olympics can be instantly hacked – a claim security experts are calling “misleading” and “fraudulent.”
October 21, 2015 Southern California school board votes to punish student hackers A Southern California school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at a wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades.
October 21, 2015 Google, Yahoo hacked by US government The National Security Agency has broken into the highly secure data centers where Google and Yahoo store vast troves of data on their users by hacking an unencrypted weak point in the data pipeline linking the enormous centers, according to a new report.
October 21, 2015 As Obama calls out Chinese cyber-attackers, Silicon Valley leads charge against hackers Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers.
October 21, 2015 Almost all websites vulnerable to hackers, experts say If you've ever been hacked, exploited or compromised online, then you already know that the Web is not a very safe place.
October 21, 2015 Burger King's Twitter account hacked, posts obscenities Somebody hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo.
October 21, 2015 Taylor Swift 'sex tape' is Facebook scam She's young, she's pretty, she's got a squeaky-clean public image — Taylor Swift is the perfect subject for a Facebook scam.
