A man in Manchester, England has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent 200,000 (pounds sterling)of other people's money after using the machine to read card details. Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the back of free standing cash machines and was able to use it to read data about customers' cards. That data could then be used to 'clone' cards and use them for bogus purchases. More →

Home PCs could be under attack from hackers over 50 times a night, suggests a BBC News Website experiment. More →