Hacker

Police in Tokyo recently arrested Yusuke Katayama, 30, for allegedly hijacking other people's computers to make online threats, then taunting Japanese media and police with riddles that led them to a memory card strapped to a cat's collar.

"Katayama was arrested on suspicion of forcible obstruction of business for using [a] computer virus to remotely access the computers of others and send out threats through them, including mass murder in a school and on the streets of Osaka," The Asahi Shimbun reports.

 Carlton and United Breweries' corporate affairs Twitter account has been hit by hackers over the weekend, sending out links to malicious software.

On Saturday the @CUB_CorpAffairs account posted spam messages including ‘The fastest way to lose body fat in 2 weeks’, and sent direct messages to followers which contained links to viruses.

It is its first activity since the August 31, when a link to the Beer Chase advert was posted, and the posts had not been deleted as of am today. The gaff is the latest in a line of social media blunders by Australian brands.

Police in Thailand say they have arrested an Algerian cybercrime suspect sought by the US FBI for allegedly making hundreds of millions of dollars by hacking banks' websites.

Immigration police chief Lieutenant General Panu Kerdlarppol said Hamza Bendelladj was arrested on January 6 during a layover at Thailand's international airport while travelling from Malaysia to Egypt. He and his family had been on vacation in Malaysia, he said.

Planetbeing reveals on Reddit that he already has an untethered jailbreak of iOS 6.0.2 on his device and explains why it hasn't been released yet.

Japanese police are looking for an individual who can code in C#, uses a "Syberian Post Office" to make anonymous posts online, and knows how to surf the web without leaving any digital tracks -- and they're willing to pay.

It is the first time that Japan's National Police Agency has offered a monetary reward for a wanted hacker, or put so much technical detail into one of its wanted postings. The NPA will pay up to AY=3 million yen (US$36,000), the maximum allowed under its reward system.

Jeremy Hammond, one of the members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group, has been denied bail, despite his attorney’s numerous attempts to convince the judge that he is not going to flee.

Elizabeth Fink, Hammond’s attorney, tried to convince the judge to grant her client bail by highlighting the fact that he didn’t have a passport and he had agreed not to use a computer if released.

A hacker charged with federal crimes for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s website was found guilty on Tuesday.

Andrew Auernheimer, 26, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was found guilty in federal court in New Jersey of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization.

A security researcher has found zero day vulnerabilities granting administrative access to managed service provider (MSP) platforms used by the likes of Ferrari, the US Air Force and government agencies.

The flaws existed in enterprise managed services providers Kaseya and ManageEngine and were revealed in a demonstration given at the Kiwicon 6 security conference in Wellington. SC contacted the companies for comment.

A 20-year-old from Amiens, France, has allegedly managed to steal around half a million of euros (over $650,000) by creating and distributing a Trojan disguised as legitimate Android apps.

Recently arrested in his home city, the youngster would allegedly download these apps from third-party download sites, modify them to include the Trojan, then reintroduced these trojanized versions onto the sites.

Home secretary Theresa May has announced that London computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US. "Mr McKinnon is accused of serious crimes. But there is also no doubt that he is seriously ill", May said. According to the Home Secretary, McKinnon suffers from Asperger's syndrome and an extradition would present a significant suicide risk.