Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes? More info here

A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines.  Maxwell Parsons, 41, other people’s money after using the machine to read card details. Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read data about customers’ ...

Good! The U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday unveiled its own secretive version of Wikipedia Wikipedia, saying the popular online encyclopedia format known for its openness is key to the future of American espionage. The office of U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte announced Intellipedia, which allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit ...

Online attackers have started to experiment with embedding malicious code or links to code in different video formats. antivirus firm McAfee warned Windows users that the company had discovered a worm actively infecting Real Media files (.rm). The infected video files do not contain an exploit for the RealOne or Real players, but a hyperlink ...

For those who think that MacOS X is solid and sure as a rock Security vendor Symantec has issued a detailed report on current Apple Mac OS X threats, covering a wide range of security issues that affect the platform today. The 29-page Symantec DeepSight report (PDF) was published in its current revision on November ...

An Italian group (named Autistici/Inventati) has invented one of the most interesting things present on the italian network today. Noblogs is a new blogging platform hosted on a newtork build with the privacy and the anonymity in mind. The project’s homepage offers some links to the first blogs that have been created on the new ...