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The last government stubbornly insisted there was nothing wrong with the Act - while rejecting overwhelming support for Gary instead to be tried in the UK.

Security experts are issuing warnings following the discovery of a phishing attack based on fast food chain McDonald's. According to security firm Sophos, the attack claims to be a customer survey.

Above are messages left by a stalker using a hacked Facebook account. A Sydney mother-of-three, her daughter and daughter's friends have been subjected to a two-week ordeal at the hands of a Facebook stalker and they have been unable to get the social networking company to intervene.

FishNet Security, the nation's leading provider of information security solutions that combine technology, services, support and training, today announced the results of its 2010 IT security trends and spending survey.

Computing: Quantum cryptography is unbreakable in theory. But like any security system, in practice it is only as safe as its weakest link IT SOUNDS foolproof.

Authorities are questioning a man who was allegedly cutting off the tail of a whale on a South Florida beach.

New investigation suggests Coulson 'actively encouraged' phone hacking at the News of the World.

Network security supplier Stonesoft has made its MobileID authentication software token available for five new mobile platforms to allow access to mission-critical systems.

As worldwide chief technology officer for security company McAfee, George Kurtz took part in the investigation - called Operation Aurora - earlier this year of the attacks against Google and a number of other companies that apparently targeted high-value sensitive information.

Source: The Star The website of the National Institute of Public Administration has suffered a cyber attack believed to be by Indonesian hackers.

SEATTLE Dick's Drive-In has been hacked. The famous Seattle burger chain says someone has broke into its website and spiked the numbers on a poll that asks customers where Dick's should put its next restaurant.

Security vendors are warning users of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Information Services 6 Web server software that a new online attack could put their data at risk.

Microsoft has released a Fix-It tool to help mitigate the latest DLL load hijacking issue that exposes Windows users to remote code execution attacks.

NORCO Hits PC Market with Network Security Barebone BIS-7870 Recently, NORCO has introduced a brand new product, the BIS-7870 which is a network security barebone, to the IPC market.

You'd like to have an Apple iPad or iPhone so, if you were offered the chance to "test" the product and get a free device, you might jump at it, right? Well, keep in mind the advice that "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," because scammers are now using this pitch on Facebook in order to get their hands on your personal information.

Security researcher Barnaby Jack on Wednesday showed how easy it can be to trigger a waterfall of cash from a standard bank ATM using readily-available software applications.

Tomorrow's WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc.

The U.S. Secret Service says they have determined the theft of credit/debt information at a Memphis Jason's Deli location was not an inside job.

Russian police have detained ten people who managed to get one billion roubles , approximately $30 million, through a clever scheme involving a computer virus, blackmail and SMS billing.