UK to Get a 'Limited' Stock of iPhone 3G Units
	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, with the majority of the devices being purchased for hacking / unlocking. The rest of the 85 percent of the iP ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 06:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Member of Congress Hacks Legally
	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 Government Reform Committee hearing. The documents contained legal advice provided by the trade group and publicly displayed d ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows 7 M1 Reduced Functionality Mode Just as Vista RTM
	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 copies of the platform. But if you thought that Vista SP1 was the end of Reduced Functionality Mode, think again. The kill swit ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 09:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

EFiX Hack Dongle to Let PC Users Run OS X without Hacks
	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, all you need is an original copy of ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2008, 06:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Comcast Hacked, BitTorrent Fans Delighted
	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 servers and change the DNS as they were actually pointing to a non-Comcast address on a free hosting service ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 05:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Shut Down Russian Nuclear Power Websites
	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, RIA Novosti& ... [read more >>]
	28 May 2008, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Australia Simply the Best, Russian Hackers Say
	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 because Russian hackers are mostly interested in this region of the world. Talking for ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: How to Hack Vista via Linux in Just a Few Minutes
	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 a revamped architecture for safeguarding sensitive user data including account passwords, Vista is certainly desig ... [read more >>]
	27 May 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Infest Tourist Website with Adult Content
	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 access to the material appearing on the page. What they did looks similar to attempting to promote adult services, but ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Silent Love China” Launches Massive Web Attack
	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 belo ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

WhiteHouse.org Hacked
	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 the official website of the White House is whitehouse.gov, hosted on a domain assigned to the US government, but it s ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

D.O.M. Team Hackers Busted in Spain
	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 attacked no less than 21,000 websites, some of them belonging to the government. However, there's no word ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Wonderware SuiteLink's Denial of Reported Service Vulnerability
	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 areas such as Production and Performance Management, Geographical SCADA and Supervisory HMI (Human-Machine Interface). [AD ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 09:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ATI Driver Mistakenly Flagged as Hack Attack
	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 reason. After further investigation, it has been discovered that the systems contained some sort of spyware which ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nigerian Sent to Prison for Hacking NASA Computer
	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 Nigerian hacker who was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he admitted having hacked a computer belonging t ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bank of Israel Attacked by Muslim Hackers
	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 anti-Israel messages on the website, the attacker also deleted all the bank announcements posted since O ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 08:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Assault High-School Computers to Modify Exam Grades
	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 got suspended a few days ago after it was revealed that they were involved in a hacking attack which affected the ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hacker Sends Obama's Fans to Hillary Clinton
	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 hoste ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Postpone CNN Attack
	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 group, the hackers announced its delay. According to Dark Visitor, a blog which translated the hackers' statem ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 Upgrade Hack Is Piracy
	Eric Ligman, Microsoft US Senior Manager Small Business Community Engagement, has come out guns blazing with sarcasm following reports of a &l ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 08:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Indian Government's Computers Hacked
	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 External Affairs got hacked a few days ago. The bad guys may come from China. According to IRNA, the hackers in ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Attack Architects' Database
	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. The same source informs that the database and no less than 1,200 other organizations in the United Kingdom and in t ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Client Name Is All You Need to Hack a Sprint Account
	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 account is just the owner's name! And imagine that getting inside a Sprint account may allow you to buy cellphones ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Smarter than Men when It Comes to Online Security
	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 computer, so hackers would better search for men when looking for new victims. "Nearly half were between the ages ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 17:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Sale for Hacked Vista Ultimate SP1 Laptop Together with Attack Code
	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 researchers that hacked it at the CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 at the end of the past week, was set at $0.01. However, the ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 06:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Shocking: Child Torture Photos Hit Facebook!
	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 replied yet. "So far, I have one definite confirm on at least two accounts that were taken over (most likely by the ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Save Darfur Coalition’s Site Hacked from China
	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 stopping the killing, but so far it has been unsuccessful. Furthermore, they have found their web site hacked and an unauthorized e ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Responsible for Hacker’s Wrongdoings, McAfee Says
	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 cybercrime, but at least there’s something Google can do about it. Unfortunately, at least this far, it didn’t, and that ticked ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 18:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Honest Hacker Cracks F1 Malaysian Site
	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 message, just a single picture of what seems to be a powder detergent box with a good punch line: Brain Wash: Removes even ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 17:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Anti-Virus Maker Trend Micro Infects Users with Malware via Hacked Website
	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 been hacked three days earlier, on March 9, and that it was set up to deliver malware to visitors. Trend Micro warned the users ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Security Company Says Windows Firewire Hack Actually a Feature
	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 interpreted as the exploit of sec ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Hack the Best Protected Computers!
	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 actually capitalize on the possibility. According to a research conducted at Princeton University, the easiest an ... [read more >>]
	25 February 2008, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Credit Card Magnetic Strips Hacked!
	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 and PIN credit cards that comply with the EMV standard. The EMV is a standard for interoperation of IC cards (&quo ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Reader Hacked?
	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 new thread created addressing the issue. "How are these people's blogs showing up in my reader that I ... [read more >>]
	21 February 2008, 09:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Harvard University Site Hacked, Content Available for Download
	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’ll find out why in a second. The download, available on the BitTorrent file-sharing network, has a stuffed description a ... [read more >>]
	19 February 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hacking Nanny Agencies
	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 is an extrapolation of the last definition, but it would hardly apply to Susan Holmes, 36. She has pleaded guil ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 15:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Skype Plugin for Apple TV Now Available!
	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 ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unlocked iPhones Count Almost 1.5 Million
	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 ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AppleTV Hack Gives Birth to 'SkypeTV'
	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 ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

PlayStation 3 Hacked ... Almost
	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 on a retail PS3 through a ... [read more >>]
	21 January 2008, 05:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hackers Can Control Your Printer, Too
	Hackers are always looking for vulnerabilities, no matter if we're talking about software glitches or weak security measures set up by the computer/network administrator. And if there's a vulnerability in your printer configuration, they exploit it too. Today's piece of news is about what security researcher, Adam Weaver, entitled "cross site printing": a new type of attack that may be launched by some malicious pe ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Xbox LIVE Hijackers Steal Celebrity Halo 3 Gamer's Account
	A couple of months ago, Bungie Games was awarding a Halo 3 Recon Armor to one Halo 3 gamer who, incr ... [read more >>]
	10 January 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pennsylvania Website Hacked
	A new hack attack targeted the official Pennsylvania website one week ago, as some hackers who were located in China attempted to infiltrate into the page. The state representatives took down the entire website, no matter the content was affected or not, Mia DeVane, a spokeswoman for the Office of Administration, said according to "The Morning Call". Although the hack attack managed to invade some parts of the website, ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

'Robin Hood' Hackers Broke into BitTorrent Site
	First of all, I chose to name the group of hackers 'Robin Hood', because they acted just like the famous hero: they stole the BitTorrent website's money and donated them to a Sikhi portal. Now, let me tell you the whole story: the hackers managed to steal the password of an administrator of the BitTorrent service, which was being used for several other services including his email. "This all began a few days ago. Me ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yet Another Hacked Software Company
	Some people say hackers are working 24 hours a day and, sometimes, I really tend to believe it. For a hacker, compromising the site of a software company or a security vendor is like talking to God for a Christian, so they are really struggling to reach their goal. This time, they somehow managed to do it because some parts of the CA's page got hacked. According to PC World, the press release section of the website redirects ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ABN Amro Clients Involved in Hack Attacks
	The Dutch police today announced that it had arrested 14 people suspected to be involved in several phishing scams, conducted by Russian and Ukrainian hackers. The 14 persons put their ABN Amro accounts at hackers' disposal and allowed them to transfer stolen money into their accounts. The illegal funds, which were stolen through phishing scams, were then redirected to other countries. The phishing scams were based on fake ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Police Website Hacked!
	'We got punk'd' the Tucson Police Department should say after their official website has been hacked by an Indonesian hacker. All the press releases published on the webpage were renamed to "Hmei7 has touched your soul", The Register reported today. According to the same source, the hacker managed to bypass the firewall and injected an SQL code, in order to get access to the press release category. The we ... [read more >>]
	20 December 2007, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Toolbar Enhances Hack Attacks
	Google Toolbar, that nice browser add-on produced by the Mountain View company, is one of the latest utilities able to enhance a hack attack and allow intruders deploy malicious applications. ... [read more >>]
	19 December 2007, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yet Another Microsoft App Targeted by Hackers
	Nope, it's not Windows, although the operating system is even targeted by attackers who want to get control over an affected system. This time, the affected MS solution is Access, as a new stack buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the application. A security notification published by US-CERT, on December 10th, urged consumers to avoid opening untrusted attachments and to block high-risk attachments through the email ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 08:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Security Company Hacked!
	If you were a hacker, your greatest achievement would surely be hacking a security company, exactly the one that should block your malicious attempts. This is exactly what happened a few days ago to F-Secure, one of the top security companies in the world, which got its forum hacked after a Turkish group discovered an unpatched flaw. The hackers didn't harm any piece of the forum content. They only modified the main page app ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 10:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia