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• Apple: iPhone Jailbreak hack violates the law

  Hacking an iPhone is against the law, Apple has argued in comments filed with the U.S. Copyright Office.

• BitDefender partner site hit by hackers

  Hackers elicited customer details from a Portuguese partner site associated with the security company BitDefender, the second intrusion in recent days targeting computer security companies.

• FAA says info on 45,000 workers stolen in data breach

  The US Federal Aviation Administration disclosed Monday that the personal data of more than 45,000 employees and retirees was stolen after hackers broke into a computer server at the agency.

• Kaspersky says Web hack 'should not have happened'

  It's the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow's Kaspersky Lab was hacked.

• Hackers deface NATO, US Army Web sites

  Hackers have taken down two high-profile targets as they continue their ongoing Web attacks in support of Palestine, defacing Web sites run by the U.S. Army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

• CheckFree warns 5 million customers after hack

  CheckFree and some of the banks that use its electronic bill payment service are notifying more than 5 million customers after criminals took control of several of the company's Internet domains and redirected customer traffic to a malicious Web site hosted in the Ukraine.

• Medicare employee accessed database to make fake Baby Bonus claims

  A Medicare employee has used his access privileges to hack into a database of deceased persons to claim more than $300,000 in false Baby Bonus payments, allege the Australian Federal Police.
  

• Researchers show how to crack popular smart cards

  Researchers have published a cryptographic algorithm and source code that could be used to duplicate smart cards used by several major transit systems, including Boston's Charlie Card and the London Oyster card.

• Hackers resurrect notorious attack toolkit

  Neosploit, the notorious hacker exploit kit that some thought had been retired months ago, has not only returned from the dead, but is responsible for a dramatic increase in attacks, a security researcher claimed Thursday.

• Report: Legislator's son at center of Palin hack talk

  A US state legislator has confirmed that his son, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee, is the person being named on blogs and message boards in connection with the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account, a Nashville paper reported.

• BusinessWeek turned into malware playground

  The website of BusinessWeek magazine has suffered a major SQL injection attack in recent days that left it hosting malware from hundreds of its pages, Sophos has reported.