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(AP) -- Google Inc. will hold its first shareholders meeting since co-founder Larry Page took over as the Internet search leader's CEO. http://phys.org/news226229938.html Technology Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:39:17 EST news226229938 (AP) -- Sony Corp. says it is restoring its PlayStation Network in the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia today after hackers stole customer data and sent services offline in April. http://phys.org/news226210101.html Technology Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:30:01 EST news226210101 (AP) -- Computer hackers in China broke into the Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, Google Inc. said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news226169702.html Technology Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:55:13 EST news226169702 Hackers launched a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack on Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor holding highly sensitive information, but its secrets remained safe, the company said Saturday. http://phys.org/news225866842.html Technology Sun, 29 May 2011 06:06:24 EST news225866842 Sony was told by the Japanese government on Friday to strengthen its data security as the electronics and entertainment giant reels from a series of attacks by hackers. http://phys.org/news225692382.html Technology Fri, 27 May 2011 05:28:58 EST news225692382 Another unit of Sony Corp. has come under attack from hackers - this time a mobile Internet service provider in Japan called So-net Entertainment Corp. http://phys.org/news225175712.html Technology Sat, 21 May 2011 05:48:50 EST news225175712 Microsoft on Wednesday warned that hackers use mind tricks more often than software skills to get viruses into computers. http://phys.org/news224958854.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 17:34:28 EST news224958854 (PhysOrg.com) -- Only a few days after Sony brought their PlayStation Network back on-line hackers have shown that the PSN is still vulnerable to attacks. This time around hackers have reset user account passwords by using their email address and date of birth. http://phys.org/news224942837.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 13:07:31 EST news224942837 US intelligence is to open an office in the Estonian capital Tallinn to help boost the fight against cyber-crime, the US embassy in the Baltic state announced Wednesday. http://phys.org/news224935777.html Technology Wed, 18 May 2011 11:09:55 EST news224935777 Japanese game developer Square Enix Holdings said email addresses of 25,000 customers as well as resumes of 250 job applicants were leaked after a hacker attack against its European subsidiary. http://phys.org/news224677001.html Technology Sun, 15 May 2011 11:17:14 EST news224677001 The White House on Thursday is expected to unveil its proposal to enhance the nation's cybersecurity, laying out plans to require industry to better protect systems that run critical infrastructure like the electrical grid, financial systems and nuclear power plants. http://phys.org/news224396336.html Technology Thu, 12 May 2011 05:30:01 EST news224396336 Sony said Tuesday that it will be at least a few more days before it restores the PlayStation Network, which has been offline since it was targeted by by hackers last month. http://phys.org/news224260685.html Technology Tue, 10 May 2011 15:38:43 EST news224260685 (AP) -- Sony is telling PlayStation users that it had encrypted the credit card data that hackers may have stolen, reducing the chances that thieves could have used the information. http://phys.org/news223205242.html Technology Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:27:34 EST news223205242 Sony is warning that hackers stole password, birthday and other data about users of its PlayStation Network that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to online games, films and more. http://phys.org/news223057975.html Technology Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:33:11 EST news223057975 Sony on Friday was working to revive its online network that connects PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to games, films, and other digital offerings. http://phys.org/news222709069.html Technology Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:38:09 EST news222709069 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed software that helps Android smartphone users prevent their personal information from being stolen by hackers. http://phys.org/news221906002.html Technology Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:36:15 EST news221906002 Computer hackers gained access to the email addresses of customers of several large US banks and other companies in a potentially huge data breach at US online marketing firm Epsilon. http://phys.org/news221138212.html Technology Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:17:07 EST news221138212 Computer security firm Websense on Friday was warning that hackers have infected a huge number of websites with malicious code crafted to dupe Internet users. http://phys.org/news220897744.html Technology Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:29:19 EST news220897744 As Iran's nuclear plant attack and Chinese-based hackers attacking Morgan Stanley demonstrate how the Internet can wreak havoc on business and governments, a new paper by a fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy hypothesizes what an all-out cyberwar between the U.S. and China might look like. http://phys.org/news220092411.html Technology Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:47:27 EST news220092411 (PhysOrg.com) -- Macs have, for the most part, been considered to be more secure than their PC counterparts due to the lack of developments of viruses and other malicious codes that are created for them. Most of the authors of malicious code are playing a numbers game, in order to get the best results they need to hit the largest number of machines possible with each piece of code. As Mac operating system-based machines have become more and more popular, they have become increasingly attractive to the writers of malicious code. http://phys.org/news218132121.html Technology Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:15:50 EST news218132121 (AP) -- A Chinese man cited by a U.S. security firm as being linked to cyberspying on Western oil companies said Friday his company rents server space to hundreds of hackers. http://phys.org/news216624676.html Technology Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:50:01 EST news216624676 A hacker group behind online attacks on companies that withdrew services to WikiLeaks busted through the defenses of a computer security firm working with federal agents to expose their identities. http://phys.org/news216317647.html Technology Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:14:24 EST news216317647 (AP) -- Hackers broke into a Nasdaq service that handles confidential communications for some 300 corporations, the company said Saturday - the latest vulnerability exposed in the computer systems Wall Street depends on. http://phys.org/news216196059.html Technology Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:27:57 EST news216196059 The loose-knit group of online global hackers known as "Anonymous" has trained its sights on Yemen following cyber attacks on government websites in Tunisia and Egypt. http://phys.org/news215973501.html Technology Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:00:01 EST news215973501 British police arrested five people Thursday as part of an investigation into cyber attacks by the online group "Anonymous", which last year assailed websites that were hostile to WikiLeaks. http://phys.org/news215359161.html Technology Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:10:01 EST news215359161 Google on Friday said it has made it harder for spam-packed websites to rank high in results at the world's top Internet search engine. http://phys.org/news214847441.html Technology Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:50:55 EST news214847441 Hacked user accounts for Apple's iTunes Store are for sale on China's largest retail website Taobao, providing illegal access to credit card details for music and TV downloads, state media said Thursday. http://phys.org/news213514272.html Technology Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:00:01 EST news213514272 (AP) -- A spam attack on Twitter shows why it's wise to use different passwords for Internet accounts. http://phys.org/news211487090.html Technology Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:25:01 EST news211487090 Facebook is challenging software hotshots around the world to show their mettle in the online social networking king's first "Hackers Cup." http://phys.org/news211263620.html Technology Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:20:33 EST news211263620 China's army should seriously consider how to deal with cyberwarfare amid severe threats to online and information security, state media said Thursday, days after authorities detained hundreds of hackers. http://phys.org/news210486976.html Technology Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:50:03 EST news210486976