Hackers bought down Google's Most famous video site, Youtube on Sunday by using a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Google has thwarted the attempts to hack You Tube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-sites redirects into it. The company has said the hole that hackers were using to corrupt the video site has been plugged. Full story

Have you ever heard about an Indian name Divya Narendra?, Or about Sanjay Mavinkurve? Or about the wealthy Olympic-rower twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss ?, Or about a small Social network ConnectU? These names are behind the Born of our Loving Social network Facebook? But What about Mark Zuckerberg the knwon Founder of Facebook? Full story

This is the story of how, Facebook Founder Zuckerberg hacked into ConnectU, whose founders had accused him of stealing their idea to build Facebook. The details of this story were developed from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook. The investigation included interviews with more than a dozen sources over two years, as well as what we believe to be relevant IMs ... Full story

Google has shut down it’s Chinese search site at Google.cn and is now redirecting visitors to Google.com.hk, uncensored results - a move certain to anger the Chinese government and jeopardize Google's future in the world's most populous country. This is in response to the widely reported cyber attack on Google in December, Google confirms. Full story

China has closed down what is believed to be the country's biggest training website for hackers, state media has reported.They say the site, Black Hawk Safety Net, gave lessons in hacking and sold downloads of malicious software.The reports say three people suspected of running the site were arrested.Hacking is a sensitive topic for China, especially since the internet giant Google recently threatened to pull out ... Full story

Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a "sophisticated and targeted" cyber attack on the search engine. Full story

High-profile tech blog TechCrunch.com is back online after being hit by hackers. The site, which profiles Silicon Valley start-ups and US firms, was offline for nearly four hours from 0630 GMT. Full story