Hackervists take company's website offline, redirect visitors to anti-lignite mining video. 

DIA says PlayStation Network users they may be targeted by scammers after the theft of personal information by a hacker.  ALSO: NZ Police, Sony NZ and Privacy Commissioner's statements.

[UPDATE: Hell Pizza has now emailed customers to inform them of the situation, and to suggest they change their login if they use the same password for other websites; see copy in the Comments section below. - CK]

He knows what you ate last summer.

A hacker's claim to have stolen a large slice of Hell Pizza's customer database appears to be correct - at least in part.

Microsoft has upgraded security on Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 in the wake of a massive hack that targeted the email addresses of human rights activists.

The cyber attack prompted Google to question its operations in China, which are already censored, and it has threatened to pull the plug on its services in the country.

The attack was to gain information on human rights activists in China and also around the world fighting for democracy in the country.

An expert Mac hacker is warning that Apple iPhones are vulnerable to binary code attacks sent via text that could give the hacker complete control of the phone.

Charlie Miller is reportedly an authority on MacOS X security, and is a co-author of The Mac Hacker's Handbook.

Binary code can be sent to mobile devices using SMS, but normally any sent code isn’t executed.

One new report bluntly accuses the Chinese government of cyber-snooping on Tibetan activists; another says China is the home base of a hacker ring that’s stolen online documents from foreign ministries in 103 countries.

The University of Toronto’s Munk Center for International Studies was asked to investigate the source of “malware” (malicious software) found spying on computers at the office of the Dalai Lama.