A bug was disclosed in Apple’s software that could be exploited by criminals to gain control over iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices. On Wednesday the website www.jailbreakme.com released code that Apple customers can use to modify the iOS operating system through jaibreaking. Many Apple customers jailbreak their devices so that they could download and run applications that are not approved by Apple or use iPhone phones on networks of carriers that are not approved by Apple.

As a result of a compromise of a FoxNews.com Twitter account on Monday by hackers people were reported that US President Barack Obama died. Six false tweets were sent from the media source account informing that Obama had been shot dead, prompting an investigation by the Secret Service. "Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets that President Obama had been assassinated," Foxnews.com said in a statement about the latest in a wave of high-profile cyber security breaches around the world.

Apple suffered a cyber attack on its servers resulting in the data breach. Hackers attacked the Cupertino company in the frame of their “Antisecurity” program. The attack is attributed to the hackers of Anonymous and retired LulzSec groups. A new unknown group AntiSec alleges it has discovered a number of flaws on the website of Apple exploiting which leads to get access to the database of user names and passwords of the iPhone, iPad and iTunes users.

While Google markets its Chrome OS based computers as safe because of cloud information storage compared to traditional PCs where the information is stored on hard drives, researchers have found some vulnerabilities that allow hackers successfully steal users’ data the same way they do when hijacking websites.

The survey of 583 US companies conducted by Ponemon Research and commissioned by Juniper Networks 90% of the polled said their companies suffered data breach as a result of hacking at least once during the past 12 months. The survey shows that about 60% suffered two or more breaches over the past year with over 50% reporting they had little confidence of being able to stave off further attacks over the next 12 months. "We expected a majority to say they had experienced a breach," said Johnnie Konstantas, director of product marketing at Juniper.

A senior Chinese official said this week that there is no cyber warfare between the United States and China as the friction has been going on for weeks over accusations that China may have initiated massive cyber attacks. While both suffering from cyber crime Chinese and American governments in no way direct these actions, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai told a small group of foreign reporters ahead of a meeting with U.S. officials in Hawaii this weekend.

A court in the Netherlands ruled that hacking into Wi-Fi connections is not a crime providing any connected computers remain untouched. Meantime, the guidance does not imply that piggy-backing (or leeching) open wireless networks is not a crime.

American people are “borrowing” their neighbor’s Wi-Fi connection without any permission and asking. According to a new national survey about 32% of the polled say they mooch a neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi connection. That's nearly double the 18% who said they borrowed Wi-Fi in a 2008 poll. "The reality is that many consumers have not taken the steps to protect themselves," said Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director at the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit trade group that commissioned the surveys.

A report from the security vendor Check Point reveals that 79% of users admit that they type personal information and phrases in passwords. Besides, 26% of web users reuse the same passwords for e-mail, online banking, or social networking accounts while 8 percent claim they copy passwords from online lists of "good" passwords. Furthermore, more than 22 percent have had their social networking accounts hacked, and the same amount have experienced email hacking.

Hackers can potentially use Internet-connected HDTVs to infiltrate malware into home networks, says the latest report by a maker of security software for smartphones, VoIP devices and TVs. Mocana conducted the tests on a range of inter-connected TVs, during which a security flaw was discovered in the kit of an unspecified manufacturer. The firm does not elaborate on the firm involved or the security weakness, at least until a fix is released.

Talking at the opening of the Information Security Summit 2010, Agnes Mak, executive director of the Hong Kong Productivity Council, said that organizations in Hong Kong need more consolidated efforts and collaboration to wrestle security threats. Last week the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT) reported that the number of hacking and phishing cases were up 34 percent year-on-year in the first 10 months of the year.

Experts found a new bug in Facebook login system that allowed attackers to match random email addresses with users’ first and last names in spite of members’ actions taken to protect their privacy. Such a bug could have been exploited by social-engineering scammers, phishers, or anyone who has ever been curious about the person behind an anonymous email message. If the address belongs to any one of the 500 million active users on Facebook, the social-networking site will return the full name and picture associated with the account.

According to the report of security researchers that attended the Black Hat conference last week China is increasingly getting a leading marketplace for permitted hacking and malware making tools allowing criminal rings to create ‘production chains’ that develop and distribute technologies for producing malicious software.

Developers now have an opportunity to find themselves at a place of a hacker with the new tutorial launched by Google. The company has released a free online tool that allows developers to exploit real security bugs in a mock web application.

Tuesday, the European Commission unveiled more details concerning its five year security plan. Thereby, the EC detailed how it plans to get the Stockholm Programme to enhance security enacted into law by 2014.