An antivirus company recently discovered a website that claims to be able to hack Facebook account but for a price of $100.

PandaLabs said that users who used the service becomes victim instead.

Users of the service are required to first register with the site and then provide an ID of the Facebook account they want hacked, said Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. Users who enter the ID and click on a “Hack it” button are then presented with the username of the owner of the Facebook account. They then have the option to “Start Facebook hacking.”

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A researcher said that he will release a tool that will allow hackers to hijack application updates on PC over an unsecured wifi connection by replacing the “update” with malware.

The hijack, believed to be vulnerable to about 100 applications including including CD burners, video players and more. The attack however does not effect application that uses digital signing for updates such as Microsoft apps.

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The number of legitimate Websites being hacked to host malware has hit startling highs in recent days, new figures from MessageLabs have revealed.

Data taken from the days between May 4 and 8 showed that 84.6 percent of Websites blocked by the company for hosting malicious content were ‘well-established’ domains that have been around for a year or more. Read the rest of this entry »

Hackers have accessed the accounts of a series of celebrities on the popular micro-blogging site Twitter and left a variety of pornographic and dubious messages and links.

In the most serious breach of security for the burgeoning blogging site, beloved of the tech community, hackers have targeted more than 30 accounts including those belonging to Britney Spears, Barack Obama, Facebook, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and the Huffington Post.

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The iPhone 3G has been hacked finally !!!

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A court in southern China convicted 11 people on Wednesday of violating national copyright laws and participating in a sophisticated counterfeiting ring that for years manufactured and distributed pirated Microsoft software throughout the world.

The men were sentenced by a court in the city of Shenzhen to terms of 18 months to six and a half years in prison, according to court papers released late Wednesday.

Microsoft applauded the sentence in a statement released late Wednesday Beijing time, saying they were the stiffest sentences ever handed down in this type of Chinese copyright infringement case.

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