Woman who exposed Russian doping scandle fears for her life

A Russian athlete who blew the whistle on Russian attempts to hide its wide scale doping of athletes says she is on the run from Tsar Putin’s hackers.

Not so shadowy after all

The Israeli outfit which is hacking the iPhone for the FBI counts Apple as one of its clients.

Hacks his own car to do it

The bloke who was the first to jail break the iPhone, George Hotz hacked his own car to turn it into a self-driving vehicle.

We know what you are thinking

UK coppers have hit on a novel idea of scaring the bejesus out of hackers by popping around for a nice cup of tea and a chocky biscuit.

It is nice when a couple share their hobbies

Two Brits have been arrested and charged with running the refud.me encryption site which VXers have been using to test their malware.

There if you know where to look

Hackers dumped online personal details of more than a million users of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com, onto the dark web.

Pagan gods put faith in Russian Orthodox 

It seems that Russian Tsar Putin swings both ways – on one hand he is a rabid gay-hating Russian Orthodox on the other he is protecting a bloke who made Zeus a household name.

How moral is that?

The hacking of a website which was supposed to encourage people to have an affair has created a bit of a moral issue for the press.

Hack becomes a world nightmare

An Italian security outfit which makes spying packages for various world governments has admitted that its software is now in the hands of terrorists after a recent hack.

Rootkits for everyone

A team of anonymous developers who created a Linux rootkit that runs on GPUs has come up with a proof-of-concept malware does the same on Windows and say a Mac OS X is nearly ready.