The internet is a minefield. Every turn online is a possible pitfall in terms of your reputation and your general way of life. What’s worse is that many of the more friendly and innocuous-seeming services are often the worst; there are multiple ways to ruin yourself on the web. Here are the worst… Read more
Those happy-go-lucky jokers LulzSec seem to have called it a day on the hacking front, at least until the heat has died down a bit. Before they crawled back under whatever it was they crawled out from, however, the LulzSec crew may have left us all a little gift.
Among the last payload of hacked documents and vandalism LulzSec released before shutting down was a cache of stolen AT&T internal documents. These appear to have spec details of both the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3.
iPhone security has taken a big hit with the revelation that the its SMS library, including on your deleted texts, could be swiped by a malicious website. Fear not though, the researchers that worked out how to swipe your iPhone SMS messages won’t reveal how to do it until Apple have fixed the issue.
Mac OS X is often trumpeted by Apple as having superior security but Charles Miller, a computer security researcher, says he’s set to reveal 20 Mac OS X security holes at a Canadian digital security conference next week. Miller says the Mac OS X security issues he’ll unveil have not been identified before.
Apple often trumpets Mac OS X as more secure than Windows but the organiser of the Pwn2Own hacking contest claims Windows 7 is more secure than Mac OS X Snow Leopard and that Safari will be the first browser to be broken in the competition.
UPDATE: T-Mobile says it’s found “no evidence” of any info being compromised. Click here for the full statement.
Thought PSP hacking was only a problem for Sony? Think again. PSP hacking is actually robbing you of features on your handheld. Sony’s Director of PlayStation Network Operations, Eric Lempel revealed that security is one of the main reasons you’re “not going to see Trophies on the PSP.” Confused? Read on to find out why.
