Rupert Murdoch's Times of London is facing a claim for exemplary damages after admitting hacking into the email of an anonymous police blogger to expose his identity, lawyer Mark Lewis told Reuters on Friday.
A British parliamentary report into a phone hacking scandal may lead eventually to News Corp being forced into cutting or selling its stake in the highly profitable pay-TV firm BSkyB, having already dropped its bid to buy it outright last year.
James Murdoch's belated acknowledgment that he had become a liability to satellite broadcaster BSkyB was a rare admission of defeat by the combative 39-year-old executive known for his self-belief and decisiveness.
After a number of celebrities falling victim to phone hacking, the latest name to be added on the list is that of Charlize Theron.
China responded to U.S. claims of alleged involvement in cyberattacks by calling the accusations irresponsible and unprofessional. A defense ministry official attacked attempts to implicate Beijing without proper investigation and irrefutable evidence.
Huawei, China's largest equipment manufacturer, has just lost a shot at billions of dollars worth of infrastructure sales to Australia. In light of China's reputation for cyber-espionage, the Australian government has decided to block Huawei from bidding on Australia's roughly AUS$36 billion National Broadband Network project. The decision was reported on March 26.
James Murdoch has written to the influential UK parliamentary committee investigating a phone hacking scandal to apologize and restate his own innocence ahead of a potentially damaging report that could determine his future in Britain.
Rebekah Brooks, former editor of The News of the World and The Sun, was arrested by Scotland Yard for allegedly planning to pervert the course of justice, as part of the continued investigation into the phone hacking scandal, reported The Associated Press.
Rebekah Brooks, who formerly ran News Corp. unit News International, was arrested Tuesday for a second time in connection with alleged illegal interception of phone messages and a system of bribes to police officials.
Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported.
By the final day of Pwn2Own, a three-day hacking competition held at the annual CanSecWest security conference, each of the major desktop web browsers had been exploited. As one of the final demonstrations, French hacking team VUPEN exploited Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 in a bombastic fashion.
In turning one of its best-known hackers into an informant and breaking open the highest profile elements of the "Anonymous" movement, authorities have dealt a serious blow to a group they found a growing irritant.
One of the world's most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges on Tuesday against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.
One of the world's most-wanted hackers secretly became an FBI informant last year, providing evidence that led to charges on Tuesday against five other suspected leaders of the Anonymous international hacking group.
Big payouts to victims of phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World paper are set to drive up the damages awarded in privacy cases in Britain, according to a recent judgment and experts in media law.
Six suspected leaders of the international hacking organization known as Anonymous were charged by U.S. authorities of computer crimes, dealing a major blow to the loose-knit group that has wreaked havoc on the websites of government agencies and major corporations.
U.S. authorities said on Tuesday top members of the LulzSec computer hacking group were arrested and its leader had previously pleaded guilty to carrying out over a dozen cyber attacks on major companies.
A top British lawyer will visit the U.S. next month to explore the possibility of suing News Corp., the American arm of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, on behalf of three people who believe a Murdoch detective may have hacked their voice mail while they were in the United States, according to reports.
Singer Charlotte Church, who testified that she was hounded by journalists working for Rupert Murdoch when she was a teenager, has received a £600,000 ($951,000) settlement on Monday in a phone hacking case surrounding News International.
In the latest development in the ongoing News Group Newspapers (NGN) saga, the UK media giant and former publisher of News of the World has avoided another trial by settling their case with Welsh soprano Charlotte Church.
In recent past, hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec carried various cyber attacks on different government and non-government Web sites. The reason behind all these attacks, as claimed by the hackers themselves, is to show their gripe against corruption, injustice, oppression, and violence. Here's an infographic detailing the moves done by Anonymous and their fellow hackitivists during 2011.
Cherie Blair, the wife of former English Prime Minister Tony Blair, files a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers Ltd. in relation to the phone hacking scandal that rocked his media empire.
