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You think your password is secure? Read this

In 2009, a minor gaming website called Rockyou.com was hacked; although you've probably never heard of the site, the hack has probably affected you or someone you know. Almost every genuine hack over...

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Islamic jihackers – coming soon to a bank near you

While our fumbling politicians and toothless regulators aren't having much success at dealing with out-of-control, too-big-to fail-banks, it seems that online cyber-jihadis are having some success in...

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Hackers aren't heroes, they're fraudster scum

In the era of the internet, hackers are seen as noble figures – anarcho-libertarians, standing up to the man, exposing government secrets and corporate misdeeds. Actually, that's a myth. The bulk of...

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Finland admits it's suffered a massive cyber-attack. Is the same thing...

Finland's diplomatic communications systems has been the target of a massively serious and prolonged cyber-attack, according to a report by Keir Giles, Chatham House's leading expert on cyber-security...

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Your money or your files?

For much of yesterday, Feedly, the RSS reader, was offline. It had been targeted by what is called a DDoS: a distributed denial of service. A DDoS attack is where a website is flooded by requests from...

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