An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at least two key departments off the internet. The attack, first detected in early January, left Canadian counter-espionage agents scrambling to determine how much sensitive government information may have been stolen and by whom. [...]

Yesterday, it was announced that physicists at the University of Toronto in Canada have successfully attacked a commercial quantum cryptography system for the first time in history. Quantum cryptography was considered by some to be unbreakable, however, like many other security systems, the technology was built making various assumptions, and in the real-world not all [...]

Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by [...]

At the Black Hat security conference, Austrian IT security specialist Peter Kleissner presented a bootkit called Stoned which is capable of bypassing the TrueCrypt partition and system encryption. A bootkit combines a rootkit with the ability to modify a PC’s Master Boot Record, enabling the malware to be activated even before the operating system is [...]

iPhone 3G – not yet ready for corporate usage, due to lacking security. This quick demonstration shows how easily and how quickly law enforcement agencies and hackers are able to recover the raw disk image from an iPhone 3G[s]… and how anyone with a very basic skill set could get to all your live AND [...]

Security experts from remote-expoit.org have recently released an open-source wireless keyboard sniffer known as Keyleriki.  This application is reportedly capable of intercepting and decoding keystrokes from Microsoft based wireless keyboards. The security group known as has finally released this software to the general public in the hopes of making manufacturers and the general public aware [...]

Recent sources close to the US government have admitted that army web servers have been the victim of attack by a group of ‘elite’ computer hackers known as M0sted.  This group, it claims, were able to use a remote injection exploit to gain access to a number of web servers belonging to the US Army [...]