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Max Clifford takes £1m to drop hack probe
Celebrity publicist Max Clifford has agreed to accept a £1m plus payoff in exchange for dropping phone hacking allegations against the News of the World.…
Patch Tuesday will leave F1 hole unpatched
Microsoft is planning just two bulletins next week, covering vulnerabilities rated only as "important", as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.…
Web wags stage IE 6 funeral
The unsung comic geniuses of the web are holding a mock funeral for Microsoft's decrepit IE 6 browser software later on Thursday.…
National Theatre hack forces password reset
Some 17,000 culture vultures registered to the UK's National Theatre website need to reset their passwords after the site was hacked.…
Hackers go on Tory-bothering spree
Conservative party websites have been attacked by mischievous hackers over the weekend, who defaced some of the sites and sent spam messages from others urging people to "vote Labour".…
Cyberspooks sceptical on UK.gov's IT cost-cutting plans
Exclusive Whitehall IT chiefs have been warned by the intelligence agency GCHQ that security problems with cloud computing could foil their plans to use the technology to slash the cost of public services.…
'Kevin Rudd sucks' declares hacked Oz road sign
Police intervention was required earlier this week when "political protesters" hacked a Sydney traffic sign and declared "Kevin Rudd sucks" to passing motorists in the city's Rose Bay.…
Microsoft's wiretap guide goes online, security site goes offline
Updated Long-established privacy and cryptology website Cryptome.org was pulled offline on Wednesday after Microsoft launched a legal offensive over its publication of Redmond's guide to internet wiretapping.…
Hordes of new threats ahead for mobile networks
Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms.…
Banking industry worker faces cosh over anonymous rant
Anonymous comments dissing Cambridge University computer scientists for their research into security weaknesses with Chip and PIN have been traced back to a banking industry group worker who acted without the permission of his bosses.…
Mad Aus gov accuses Sydney hacks of hacking
Australian state government ministers have accused journalists of hacking in order to get the low-down on transport plans in New South Wales.…
MPs obsess about expenses, ignore data security
The UK parliament is now so obsessed with looking tough over expenses that it is cutting corners on data security, and increasing the risk of a breach of constituent confidentiality.…
Cyber attacks will 'catastrophically' spook public, warns GCHQ
Exclusive A digital attack against the UK causing even minor damage would have a "catastrophic" effect on public confidence in the government, GCHQ has privately warned Whitehall.…
Argentinians invade Falkland Islands website
Argentinian hackers yesterday raised their national flag over the Falkland Islands' Penguin News - a temporary occupation in which they laid out their case for sovereignty over the South Atlantic paradise island group.…
Hacker cuffed for Moscow big screen entertainment
Russian police have arrested the hacker who last month projected some adult entertainment on an enormous video screen in Moscow, giving locals around two minutes unexpurgated coverage of "a white male and a black female having sex".…
Experts reboot list of 25 most dangerous coding errors
Computer experts from some 30 organizations worldwide have once again compiled a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors along with a novel way to prevent them: by drafting contracts that hold developers responsible when bugs creep into applications.…
Cyclist Floyd Landis accused of hacking into doping lab
French authorities have issued an arrest warrant against US cyclist Floyd Landis over allegations he hacked into an anti-doping lab computer.…
Google co-founder: Maybe we'll stay in China after all
A month after storming the moral high-ground over China's hacking activities, Sergey Brin has declared the firm is happy to get off its high horse and kick its heels in the country a little longer.…
Rootkit blamed for Blue Screen patch update snafu
The presence of a hard-to-detect rootkit may have caused Windows XP machines to freeze up after applying a patch from Microsoft last week, according to preliminary analysis of the problem from Microsoft's security team.…
NHS Toolkit takedown will inconvenience docs, not patients
Analysis Patient care will not be affected by an NHS decision to pull a doctors' appraisal website offline to improve its security, but the life of UK doctors will be complicated.…