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• What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous?

  By Network World staff | 11 January, 2012 09:41

  Anonymous had a busy year in 2011 pushing its hacker-activist agenda on companies around the Web, to the point where just the sound of the hacker group's name can send shivers down the spine of many a CIO.

• 2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

  By Mark Gibbs | 09 January, 2012 16:30

  Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

• Turnbull's card details exposed by hackers

  By AAP | 29 December, 2011 10:22

  Millionaire MP Malcolm Turnbull and billionaire businessman David Smorgon have had their credit card details published on the internet by hackers.

• Study: Hackers, IT pros share personal information online

  By Christina DesMarais | 16 October, 2011 04:52

  Hackers apparently can be just as careless as their victims.

• Android users: Advice to protect your phones

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 26 September, 2011 02:40

  Android smartphone users can take some commonsense precautions to protect their personal data from being stolen -- important advice considering an app developer purports to know how to take the information in under 60 seconds.

• Facial recognition: Facebook photo matching just the start

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 22 September, 2011 11:20

  The Internet was in an uproar earlier this year following Facebook's launch of facial recognition software for its photo services, enabling users to identify their friends in photos automatically--and without their permission. Though critics described that move as creepy, the controversial technology may now be on the verge of widespread use.

• Skype iPhone, iPod Touch app has security hole

  By Eric Mack | 21 September, 2011 02:21

  Skype is working to fix a security hole in its iOS app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows a hacker to steal a person's entire address book. The vulnerability, located in the app's chat message window, can be exploited with JavaScript code. It was pointed out by security researcher Phil Purviance of AppSec.

• US-Australia military pact deemed to cover cyberspace

  By Tim Greene | 17 September, 2011 06:41

  For the first time, the US has interpreted an existing treaty to include aggression in cyberspace as a trigger for international military cooperation.

• Hacker turns Kinect for Xbox 360 into Kinect for Linux PCs

  By Ian Paul | 13 November, 2010 02:06

  Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company's Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin Cantero, who is known online as "marcan," released a proof-of-concept video Wednesday night showing the Kinect interfacing with his Linux-based laptop.

• Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT

  By Dan Tynan | 16 March, 2010 04:01

  Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day.

• Are Hollywood hackers bogus or bright?

  By Robert McMillan | 25 February, 2010 14:08

  Quick: What's a hacker? A pimply faced teenager in a dark bedroom trying to start World War Three, or a thirty-something professional with mad computer skills?

• Steganography meets VoIP in hacker world

  By Tim Greene | 14 September, 2009 07:08

  Researchers and hackers are developing tools to execute a new data-leak threat: sneaking proprietary information out of networks by hiding it within VoIP traffic.