The Steam forums were for a time not accessible a few days ago. What felt like a hardware or software issue at that time was actually more serious than this. Users who visit the Steam forums today see an announcement on the first page that informs them that the Steam forum and Steam databases have [...]

Categories: Security

The UK newspaper business must be wondering what’s going on these days. Only a few weeks after the News of the World was forced to shut up shop for good amongst phone hacking scandals, it’s now been reported that The Sun has suffered a serious breach of security with details of customers stolen and re-published [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Ghacks readers know that online security is of uttermost importance. That includes picking passwords that are not common, easy to guess or dictionary words. The majority of Internet users on the other hand select convenience over security when it comes to their online password, or shall I say password. Many users pick a common password [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Popular software developer Ashampoo is currently emailing their customers about a recently discovered successful hack on one of their servers. The break-in had been discovered by Ashampoo, and the company interrupted it and closed the security gap that the hackers used to gain access. Unfortunately though, customer address data and email addresses were stolen by [...]

Categories: Security

Lets assume your system has been hacked. What steps would you undertake after the hacking attempt ? The article written at techtarget.com tries to answer the question and presents a checklist of things to do after being someone hacked into your system. Its more of a checklist for corporate networks than for individual computers but it would not hurt to take a look and probably get some new ideas that you did not think about.

Categories: Advice, Hacking