Hackers

A hacker has used a zero day flaw to steal email addresses, hashed passwords and read personal messages from the bitcointalk.org forum.

Forum administrators said the attacker gained root access and was able to run arbitrary PHP code. The attacker gained access on 3 September and was not detected until the attacker injected "annoying JavaScript" into the forum pages a week later.

Turkish hackers are preparing to launch a wave of cyber attacks on sensitive Israeli internet sites, the head of a major Israeli website building company warned on Sunday.

Elik Cohen, chairman of Daronet, which maintains more than 3,000 websites, sent a warning to his company's branches in Israel and abroad saying that Turkish hackers could be targeting sites vital for trade and the presentation of content belonging to banks and the government.

Russia's embassy in London said on Sunday its website crashed in a suspected hacking attack just before Prime Minister David Cameron begins the first visit by a British leader to Moscow since the 2006 killing in London of a Kremlin critic.

The embassy said it had set up a "mirror" website (www.rusemborguk.ru) to meet the increased interest of the public and media for information before Cameron flies to Russia on Sunday.

Being hacked is rapidly become a badge of honor.

So some will wish to rise to respect Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's Twitter feed being apparently tampered with. In a post that has subsequently been removed, some perhaps unknowingly humorful soul offered: "I made $781 today working a few hour from home check this out!"

A frustrated hacker has defaced the web site of the University of Vermont after multiple cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability disclosures allegedly went ignored.

The hacker Codeine said the university was advised of XSS holes exactly one month ago but failed to patch the holes despite allegedly claiming to be doing so soon after the disclosure.

Over the past couple of months, we've seen many instances where hackers have used their expertise to make political or social statements. Do these attacks imply a shift in focus among cybercriminals and a move away from organised crime looking for financial gains?

Hackers are using a new trick to cloak malicious files by disguising their Windows file extensions to make them appear safe to download, a Czech security company warned today.

The exploit, dubbed "Unitrix" by Avast Software, abuses Unicode for right-to-left languages -- such as Arabic or Hebrew -- to mask Windows executable files (.exe) as innocuous graphic images (.jpg) or Word documents (.doc).

More than one in ten Brits have admitted to 'casual hacking' says CPP. Research by the life assistance company revealed that 13 percent of web users said they had accessed someone else's online account without their permission.

Social networks such as Facebook were the most popular target for this casual hacking, while personal and work emails, money transaction portals such as PayPal and online banking sites, had all also been accessed by these web users without the account holder's knowledge.

Manchester City football club's chief executive Garry Cook claims his email was hacked. There's no way he'd have sent an email ridiculing the fact one of his players' mum has cancer. No way.

But his defender Nedum Onuoha's mum has written to the Football Association and Premier League, complaining abou the email which she said was offensive.

A Turkish hacker group diverted traffic to a number of high-profile websites including the Telegraph, UPS, Betfair, Vodafone, National Geographic, computer-maker Acer and technology news site the Register on Sunday night, putting unwary users at risk of having passwords, emails and other details stolen.

Industry experts warned people not to log into sites such as Betfair because their details could be stolen.