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Forget the outdated hacker image of a spotty anarchic teenager holed up in his bedroom defacing the websites of global organizations; today’s hackers are not only older but more determined than ever to claim your cash and identity. It didn’t take long for hackers to find the first security openings in games for Microsoft's new Xbox 360 system. Intel allayed concerns over the possibility of hackers using a vulnerability in its Hyperthreading technology to steal cryptographic keys from compromised servers. Charities need to be on their guard against internet fraud, the Charity Commission warned today after criminal hackers broke through the online security systems of a Christian organization. Boston College has informed 120,000 alumni that hackers have had access to their personal information. The first person to hold a PhD in forensics, Emlyn Everitt tells David Quainton that the battle for security begins in the boardroom Secure email service Hushmail appeared to be on the receiving end of hacking attempt yesterday when users of the service noticed an apparent defacement on its home page. The US Government is to protect the country's infrastructure with an elite team of hackers performing electronic warfare and military deception. ISP Fast24 has advised customers to ignore emails after its support forum was hacked into over the weekend.

Despite the names (Konstantin Gavrilenko, Andrei Mikhailovsky, Andrew Vladimirov), the three people who wrote this book are based in the UK and are the founders of an IT security company there by the name of Arhout. They have decided to impart gems of knowledge to us about wireless networks and how to kept hackers out. Or alternatively if you possess a degree of moral flexibility, you could use this book to learn about hacking into said networks.

Hackers are setting up fake wireless base stations and websites to trick laptop users into giving out sensitive information according to a cyber-crime expert. People sending emails to Gmail accounts may find they reveal more than they bargained for. A bug within Google mail service allows hackers to reveal details of other users’ personal emails, and even their account passwords. Keylogging is quickly becoming the favorite technique of hackers looking for financial gain, data released this week claimed. Hackers are more likely to make regular, small-scale attacks on networks instead of trying to cause complete system shutdown, according to new research. More than eight out of ten British businesses think hackers should get longer sentences, according to a new poll. More organizations are turning to remote access to boost productivity, but this makes them more vulnerable to malicious attacks. Check Point’s Niall Moynihan looks at how to go about protecting your web services

A book about the inner workings of the hacker's mind would not be complete without mentioning the world's most famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick. This book does not disappoint in that respect. This book deals with getting inside the mind of a hacker. It a kind of "know your enemy"-type book.

America's air traffic control systems are open to attack from hackers and cyber-terrorists according to a new GAO report. Banner advertising is being used to deliver the Bofra worm to visitors of European websites. Users of a number of high profile sites will find that clicking on banner ads redirects them to websites that exploit an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer. Think what the world of IT was like in 1990. A few lucky researchers, military personnel, government workers and assorted hangers-on would have been able to enjoy the novelty of fledgling email and internet services. If you were a forward-thinking large corporate, you might well have a mainframe or a minicomputer network storing and processing crucial data and, although dial-up modems could connect systems to each other and enable remote terminal access, viruses and hack-attacks were minor worries. The occasional infected floppy disc might contain some malware that could potentially compromise the contents of your expensive 40mb hard drive, but a relatively up-to-date antivirus programme would probably protect you. Hackers and virus writers were mostly a minority sub-culture of cyber-kids operating from their bedrooms bragging and swapping war stories on underground bulletin boards.