security breach

Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn't sure its was hacked in the first place doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

Symantec originally said that the worst case scenario was that hackers had...

Last Saturday, we began reporting on a security breach at French anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard (TMG).

The company had been entrusted by the French government to carry out monitoring of file-sharing networks in pursuit of their nationwide anti-piracy program.

Under France’s so-called Hadopi law, alleged copyright infringers will be reported to a judge once they have received three official warnings for illicit file-sharing.

Those judges are empowered to hand down any one of a range of penalties, from fines through to disconnecting the infringer from the Internet.

Hackers have broken into a Fox.com extranet site, designed as a repository of research statistics, programming details and ratings for clients and affiliates, and stolen the emails and passwords for hundreds of Fox Broadcasting employees.

The group, which calls itself Lulz Security, then used that information to alter the LinkedIn accounts of more than a dozen Fox sales employees, tweeting each one on its @LulzSec twitter account.

Sony on Sunday apologised for a security breach that compromised millions of users, and said it could not rule out the possibility that credit card information was stolen.

Last summer a group of Argentinian hackers gained access to The Pirate Bay’s admin panel through a security breach.

At the time, the hackers stated that they didn’t want to exploit the vulnerability, and merely wanted to show that the system was vulnerable.