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• 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.