Essential criteria: Must think like the enemy, know the enemy and report to the American Government. Previous hacking experience considered.

An annual hacking conference in Canada is offering enterprising hackers $10,000 in cash and phone prizes for finding vulnerabilities in smartphones such as the iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

As neural controllers grow in popularity, so will hackers attempts to create malicious code to potentially corrupt, control and infiltrate our brains. So, what are the experts doing about it?

Hackers have apparently found a way to decipher the PIN code data from millions of ATM cards without the need for external skimming devices at the ATM

Security and privacy advocates argue that RFID tags could make it easier for hackers to target our private information, as RFIDs permeate every facet of everyday life

The Government's own film and literature classification website has suffered at the hands of an unknown enemy, apparently from some kind of Alien civilisation, according to the hacker's note.

Screensavers rated at 59% on top of the list of the web's most dangerous search terms, based on a McAfee survey of 413,368 unique urls that can infect your computer with malware, viruses and other nasties.

Using popular jailbreaking tools freely available online, an iPhone developer and hacker has demonstrated the lack of security on the Apple iPhone 3GS - and posing potential worries if you're using the iPhone for business.

Microsoft may have finally answered your browsing prayers. The release of IE 8 RC1 looks to have ironed out a significant portion of the browser's previous bugs.

The internet's most famous meme has now turned up on Australian iPhones, infecting vulnerable jailbroken phones with the 80s pop star's image - proving that not all malware is humourless.

A hacker known as orinOco has boasted that he hacked Steve Job's Amazon account, emailed pics of the hack attack and intends to sell the grimy account details

A major DDoS attack against US and South Korean government websites is not thought to be the work of North Korean interests, says a security expert

The US military is working on a portable hacking device that would allow soldiers untrained and unskilled in the art of cyber warfare to infiltrate enemy networks at the click of a few buttons.

A security firm has demonstrated how to hack a mobile phone using what is known as the 'Midnight Raid' exploit, by triggering an Internet Explorer vulnerability with simple online tools, a business card and SMS.

Windows is the key to hacking another OS says security firm.