"The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network earlier this year in the most successful cyber attack ever on the US defence department, according to US officials. The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, the defence secretary, in June, but refused to say who it…

"CHINESE spies have hacked into German government department computer systems, media reports say. The reports emerged as German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in China. The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted by saying China prohibited attacks on computer networks. "The Chinese Government has always opposed and prohibited any criminal activity that breaks down computer networks, including hacker…

"US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm. A computer program was used to access the employers' section of the website using stolen log-in credentials. Symantec said the log-ins were used to harvest user names, e-mail addresses, home addresses…

"Facebook source code has been leaked on the Web, and that's raising some serious issues about the site's security and data privacy. Source code from the social networking site's main index page appeared on a blog called Facebook Secrets recently and remained there Tuesday. The blog does not contain any other postings. "A small fraction…

The UN was defaced with a political message and hackademix has published it was via a sql injection vulnerability. "While most of us may agree with the message, many will object to the spelling, and specifically to the dont used instead of don.t. There.s a technical reason for the missing apostrophe, though, because messing with…

"Web ads are becoming a delivery system of choice for hackers seeking to distribute viruses over the Internet. In a development that could threaten the explosive growth of online advertising, hackers have started to exploit security holes in the online-advertising chain to slip viruses into ads. Just going to a site that shows such an…

"A highly sophisticated spying operation that tapped into the mobile phones of Greece's prime minister and other top government officials has highlighted weaknesses in telecommunications systems that still use decades-old computer code. The spying case, where the calls of around 100 people using Vodafone’s network were secretly tapped, remains unsolved and is still being investigated.…

"A former top CIA agent has claimed Belfast and Dublin are world centres of industrial espionage where top corporations can buy secret information on their rivals. Bob Baer, whose life inspired the spy movie Syriana starring George Clooney, said Ireland was "just like Berlin during the Cold War". In an interview for RTE radio documentary…

"According to officials, 1,120 applicant records for the 2007-2008 class at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine have been hacked, in what marks the first time an example of unauthorized access to the university's computer systems has been coupled with evidence of attempted fraud. According to the university, the incident was discovered on June…