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Researchers at the Cornell University and Virginia Tech are worried about the risks and implications of hacking the Global Positioning System, and so they tried and managed to “spoof” it, revealing its security-related flaws.Following the computer hacking model that is known and fought against since the e... |
3 October 2008
05:05 GMT |
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Eleven people that are believed to have conspired in the largest hack and identity theft in history had been charged. According to the authorities, some of the numerous counts the men were charged with are conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft. The nationality of ten out of the 11 defendants has be... |
6 September 2008
07:40 GMT |
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Public persons are surely among the people who care the most about their reputation. This is only understandable after all, since, if a celebrity's private account on a social network is hacked, then the one behind it can make quite a few easy bucks by blackmail. This was precisely the case with the person who b... |
5 September 2008
06:50 GMT |
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Hundreds of people reported to Skype that their accounts had been hacked. The victims either couldn't log in anymore, or discovered that unapproved payments had been made by someone using the embedded PayPal option. The transactions performed via Skype prompted users to vehemently complain about the security bre... |
3 September 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Supporters of Gary McKinnon, the English hacker who is to be extradited to the US for trial, have arranged for a protest to take place today at 4 P.M. at the Home Office in London. The governmental division responsible for the prevention of “terrorism, crime and anti-social behavior” is, apparently, the l... |
2 September 2008
10:29 GMT |
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A group of hackers, members of the Anti-Fascist Action (ANTIFA), successfully broke into the forum of the Blood & Honor neo-Nazi network. They retrieved over 800 MB of information on members, discussions and meetings, and then uploaded the archives for download on public file sharing servers.The Blood & Honor i... |
1 September 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Password retrieval systems leave room for breaches that can allow hijackers to get into almost anyone's account. This has become possible because, nowadays, personal information about a person can be easily found during just a brief web navigation. Social network profiles, resumes, lists released by universities... |
28 August 2008
10:19 GMT |
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The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 2.0.3, which supports iPhone and iPod touch firmware 2.0.2 5C1. The new release also sports an updated version of Installer.app beta 6 and new .de localization for German users. There are no significant updates with regard to the 3G baseband unlock, according to the iPhone ... |
26 August 2008
04:48 GMT |
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A former TV news anchor admitted to having hacked the email account of one of his coworkers. Lawrence Mendte, who used to be a TV presenter for KYW-TV, a television station in Philadelphia, has been accused of "intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and obtaining information," a felony tha... |
25 August 2008
03:53 GMT |
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A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas.Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, and ... |
11 August 2008
11:57 GMT |
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Rumor has it that Apple isn't very fond of Britain, as far as shipping its new iPhone there is concerned. Few next-gen devices are to make their way into the UK, as a result of Briton's unlocking habits.This Electricpig report claims O2 UK saw less than 15% (original) iPhones sold after the last price drop,... |
4 July 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Nashville Democrat Jim Cooper was accused of gaining unlawful access to a National Rural Electric Cooperative Association web page. He used a password he had received from an undisclosed source, accessed the database and downloaded several documents, all of which he later used in a House of Government Oversight and G... |
30 June 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Windows 7 Milestone 1 features Reduced Functionality Mode, just like Windows Vista RTM. With the advent of Service Pack 1 for its latest Windows client, Microsoft scraped the anti-piracy mitigation from the operating system, going back to the behavior of Windows XP when dealing with pirated, unactivated or expired co... |
16 June 2008
09:54 GMT |
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EFiX claims it was able to produce and (until now) successfully test an USB dongle that is slightly different than other commercial products aimed at emulating Apple's elusive OS. EFiX's solution is said to be the best and most reliable for installing and running Mac OS X on your PC.According to the makers,... |
13 June 2008
06:34 GMT |
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Comcast, one of the largest ISP in the United States, saw its website hacked last night with a strange message displayed to all the visitors: "KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven". What's interesting is that it seems like the hackers managed to break into the ser... |
29 May 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Hackers managed once again to terrify an entire nation after they shut down websites belonging to Russian nuclear power plants and spread information of a nuclear accident on the Internet. The worst thing is that people actually use the hacked websites to check radiations and radioactive emissions in a certain region... |
28 May 2008
05:22 GMT |
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When talking about hackers, it doesn't matter in which country their targets are based because all they want are vulnerable targets that could let them break into their computers. However, when it comes to their favorite location to take over computer systems, it seems like Australia has something special becaus... |
27 May 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Windows has never been an epitome of security and alternatives - the open source Linux and Apple's Mac OS X are considered superior in this aspect. However, Windows Vista was built as an apex of security compared to its predecessors. Featuring examples of technology as the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption, and... |
27 May 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Websites are hacked every once in a while, especially due to software vulnerabilities or weak security measures, so it shouldn't be too surprising to see such a compromised page over the web. However, a new website has just got infested with adult content as hackers managed to break into the servers and got acce... |
21 May 2008
05:36 GMT |
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A new attack has been detected on the Internet, no less than 9,000 websites being already affected by an exploit codenamed "Silent Love China". SiliconRepublic.com writes that the infection attempts to inject some sort of malicious code into popular websites and steal usernames and passwords belonging to visitors. Si... |
21 May 2008
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WhiteHouse.org, the officious website of president George W. Bush, was hacked a few days ago by someone who inserted a malicious code able to drop malware on visitors' computers. The website does not belong to George W. Bush and is actually a parody meant to make fun of some presidential matters. The real and th... |
20 May 2008
09:14 GMT |
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Five members reportedly from the D.O.M. Team hacking group got busted in Spain as part of an investigation of the local police, FOXNews.com informed today. According to the report, two of the suspects were minors, aged 16. "The others are 19 or 20," the same publication adds. It seems like the group of websites attac... |
19 May 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Security researchers at Core Security Technologies have issued a warning statement on Monday according to which they found a rare vulnerability in Wonderware subsidiary's InTouch SuiteLink application. Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, is a software manufacturer that offers solutions to business users in ... |
8 May 2008
09:07 GMT |
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Last week, the University of Colorado at Boulder officials said that three of their computers were hacked and information of about 9,000 students and 500 employees was put in danger. According to various reports, the university administrators spotted the attack only when the computers restarted themselves without any... |
8 May 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Hacking computers has always been an illegal activity and, even if attackers risked harsh punishments, they continued to launch attacks on computers from all over the world. However, some of them get caught and once it happens, they probably regret all they did during their hacking "job". This is the case of a Nigeri... |
6 May 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Bank of Israel was recently forced to shut down its website after having been attacked by hackers apparently coming from Algeria, the Jerusalem Post reports today. The website was taken offline on Friday because a hacker called "The Moorish" broke into the servers and modified the content of the page. Besides posting... |
30 April 2008
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Exam cheating may get a new sense in the near future because this unfair way to get high grades at school tests evolves and brings out new techniques. If until now students struggled to create all sorts of cheat sheets, they are now moving further to high-end technology: hacking attacks. According to AP, six students... |
30 April 2008
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The US presidential race is one of the front-page subjects for some time now but today, a different type of report hits the Internet: Barack Obama's website has been hacked and all the visitors of the page were redirected to the one belonging to his rival, Hillary Clinton! A post on the Community Blogs hosted by... |
22 April 2008
04:00 GMT |
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The short story so far: a pro-China hacker group that considered an article published by CNN offensive for their country prepared what they wanted to be a destructive attack over the website, in a move to take the page down. The attack was first scheduled for April 19 but, in a statement published by a member of the ... |
21 April 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Eric Ligman, Microsoft US Senior Manager Small Business Community Engagement, has come out guns blazing with sarcasm following reports of a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 loophole which permits end users to perform clean installations of the operating system instead of upgrades. The workaround is nothing new and repres... |
15 April 2008
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Chinese hackers seem to be quite experienced these days as they manage to infiltrate into any vulnerable system found out there, connected to the web. After lots of reports concerning Chinese hackers who managed to broke into a certain computer, here's another one: the network belonging to the Indian Ministry of... |
14 April 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Hackers show no mercy when infiltrating in a certain system, no matter if we're talking about hospitals, morgues or churches. These malicious people have attempted to infiltrate into the Royal Institute of British Architects, also known as RIBA but, according to The Register, no important damages were recorded. ... |
11 April 2008
06:13 GMT |
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Hacking an account must be a difficult job, especially when the provider of the targeted account has implemented powerful security features, complex passwords or other measures meant to defend the system. However, the folks at Sprint, which is actually a pretty famous company, proved that all you need to hack an acco... |
9 April 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Hackers work 24/7 and new victims of their malicious attempts appear every day. But what's interesting is that, of the total number of complainants who reported attacks, no less than 57.6 percent were male. This means that women are more difficult to trick when it comes to hacking/infecting/compromising a comput... |
4 April 2008
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The laptop running a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1 hacked in the CanSecWest PWN2OWN 2008 challenge was listed for sale on Ebay but failed to conduct to a successful sale. The starting bid for the auction of the Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1, claimed as part of the prize of the security resea... |
2 April 2008
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Although it wasn't confirmed yet, some reports disclosed that several Facebook accounts got hacked and shocking pictures of child torture were sent to all the users visiting the profiles. Paperghost of Vitalsecurity.org informs that at least two accounts were hijacked a few days ago, but no Facebook official rep... |
28 March 2008
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The Save Darfur Coalition is a non-profit group created to draw attention to the ongoing genocide caused by civil war in western Sudan's Darfur region. Relying on the strong commercial agreements between China and Sudan, the group is trying to get the Asian country to pressure Sudan's government into stoppi... |
24 March 2008
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The wave of URLs that appeared to lead to Google, but were created by hackers for their devious deeds, has caught the eye of security company McAfee, and boy, were they mad about it. There's no way not to be upset when you see that fraudsters turn one of the Internet's symbols into a means of committing cyb... |
21 March 2008
18:36 GMT |
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Here's a good change from the usual security news that depict one worm or Trojan as the apocalypse, turning PCs into zombies and proud members of botnets. A hacker calling himself CuciOtak defaced the official website of the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix that is to take place this weekend. No claims and demands, no me... |
21 March 2008
17:16 GMT |
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Japanese anti-virus developer Trend Micro managed to diverge from its default strategy of offering protection from malicious code, switching a full 180 degrees by serving malware to users, although through no real fault of its own. On March 12, 2008, Trend Micro announced that a portion of its official website had be... |
14 March 2008
06:18 GMT |
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A tool developed by Adam Boileau, a New Zealand security consultant with Immunity, can hack into a Windows computer in a matter of seconds via a connection made through a Firewire port. The hack dates back to 2006, but just recently Boileau has made the tool available to the public. However, what was initially interp... |
13 March 2008
10:26 GMT |
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After spending millions and even more into software that would protect the computers from vicious attacks with ever new viruses, loggers and whatnot, the simplest method is the one that works best, provided access to the PC is granted. It's simple and everybody can do it, but only somebody more experienced can a... |
25 February 2008
15:46 GMT |
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Every credit card has personally identifiable information inserted into the magnetic strip on the back, but hacking it so far proved a task too difficult for most malevolent figures to even attempt. RFID security guru Adam Laurie has come up with a test program named CHaP.py, specifically designed to read the chip an... |
21 February 2008
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Google has long fought spam and for a while it managed to fend it off with elegance and class, but it looks like spam has finally breached one of the last spam-free products on the web, Google Reader. The Google Groups forum, a place for users to complain about things falling apart or demand new features, now hosts a... |
21 February 2008
09:24 GMT |
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The web site of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University was attacked and went offline yesterday. The purpose of it all, the guy behind the attack says that he wanted to demonstrate the insecurity of the university's server and, I dare add, the recklessness of those in charge of it. You... |
19 February 2008
05:29 GMT |
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The hack is a term broadly used when talking about computer science. It has roughly three meanings, that of a quick fix, a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem, or a modification to a program or device that would give the users access to features that were otherwise unavailable to them. The term used in security... |
18 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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It was just 10 days ago that 19-year-old developer Brandon Holland announced that he was able to get Skype up and running on the Apple TV. It didn't exactly come as breaking, for two reasons:1. because Skype for a handheld would have been more attractive, and 2. because the story lacked visual proof. Proof that ... |
4 February 2008
05:37 GMT |
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Yep, the figures seem pretty darn correct. Even Apple is aware of the situation and doesn't like it one bit. But how could anyone determine the amount of hacked iPhones floating around the market? Easy - by subtraction.AT&T revealed that around two million iPhone owners were using its network, in a report toward... |
29 January 2008
03:47 GMT |
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A recent breakthrough in electronics... no wait, that's a big fat lie. A certain Brandon Holland from the Great White North (that's better) has done it! At only 19 years of age, Mr. Holland was able to get Skype up and running on the AppleTV (or so we're led to believe). While few would consider using ... |
24 January 2008
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Be advised that we don't encourage piracy, but we're surprised to see that the homebrewers have (almost) finally made it, after such a long research. Word goes that Team ICE has found a way of running SELF files in GamesOS on the PS3's 2.10 firmware. Translation: they managed to run an unsigned code o... |
21 January 2008
05:40 GMT |
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