• Tweet Facebook wants you to try to hack into its site — and if you succeed, it will pay you for the details. Facebook said this week that that it has paid out more than $40,000 under its new "bug bounty" security initiative. Launched three weeks ago, Facebook’s program invites security researchers — both the [&hellip

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  • Tweet Hacker groups Anonymous and Lulz Security have called for a boycott of PayPal to punish the electronic payments firm for its refusal to accept donations for WikiLeaks. PayPal, Visa and MasterCard have stopped accepting donations for WikiLeaks in December after the website began releasing sensitive US State Department cables. PayPal says the decision to [&hellip

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  • Tweet A German hacker group has called for online users to circulate altered versions of the 1500-page manifesto by Norwegian terrorist suspect Anders Behring Breivik, until the original document is drowned out by copies. ‘Ensure that Anders becomes a joke, so nobody takes him seriously any more,’ declared the hacker group Anonymous on Tuesday. In [&hellip

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  • Tweet Computer hackers have targeted The Sun website with visitors being redirected to a hoax story about Rupert Murdoch’s suicide. The group LulzSec, which has previously targeted companies including Sony, says it carried out the hijack, via messages on Twitter. Internet users trying to access thesun.co.uk were redirected to new-times.co.uk and a story entitled ‘Media [&hellip

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  • Tweet Most people know the importance of having up-to-date security on their computers, but many are not as vigilant when it comes to smartphones. The phones allow similar access to the web and store all your personal information, making users an easy target for hackers. Experts say the best way to protect your personal information [&hellip

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