Google's Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs. The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC. Infected computers are being hijacked by the gang behind the attacks and either mined for saleable data or used for other attacks. The Blogger attack is the latest in a series by a gang that has managed to hijack hundreds of thousands of PCs. Attack pattern

The Australian government Monday admitted no Internet child safeguards were foolproof after a teenager claimed he was able to break through its multi-million dollar pornography filter in minutes. Sixteen-year-old Melbourne teenager Tom Wood said it took him less than 30 minutes to override the cyber barrier technology which was launched by Prime Minister John Howard earlier this month. "I downloaded it on Tuesday to see how good it was, because for 84 million dollars (69 million US), I would have expected a pretty unbreakable filter," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Popular video sharing website Youtube is riddled with security vulnerabilities according to an independent security researcher.In an open letter to YouTube owner's Google, Christian Matthies said he would publicly disclose over 40 bugs he said he found on the site. Most of the flaw concern cross-site scripting flaws which allow hackers to inject malicious code into legitimate website in order to steal personal information on website visitors. Most of the exploits allow hackers to infect user profiles with malware that could spread through the internet and steal users log-in details."Just

This, of course, is the fundamental hacking skill. If you don't know any computer languages, I recommend starting with Python. It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy; it is very powerful and flexible and well suited for large projects. I have written a more detailed evaluation of Python . Good tutorials are available at the Python web site .Java is also a good language for learning to program in. It is more difficult than Python, but produces faster code than Python. I think it makes an excellent

American company iDefence, which specializes in information security, announced 8 000 dollar award for hackers, who will be able to detect flaws in new Internet Explorer 7 and newest OS Microsoft Windows Vista.Six people, who will first submit Vista and Explorer's flaws, will be awarded with this sum. At the present, iDefence is not the only company which is ready to pay hackers for flaw detections in software.