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The Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the application storefront Redmond-based software company Microsoft has put in place for the owners of any handset running under Windows Mobile 6.5, has been recently updated with a series of new features. Among them, the company included new anti-piracy protection features for the... |
14 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Britney Spears has got her Twitter and MySpace accounts hijacked by vandals looking to defame her. The rogue status updates posted yesterday on her feed made references to Devil worshiping and the New World Order.Britney Spears, Twitter and hackers seem to be a recurring theme. Back in January, she was amongst the vi... |
13 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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A 25-year-old Pennsylvania man, who was arrested back in March for using an administrative password without authorization to transfer funds into his account with a currency exchange service, pleaded guilty on September 29. The hacker has previously spent over an year in jail for a stock swindling scheme.Van T. Dinh w... |
8 October 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Two Frenchmen have been arrested for hacking into ASMALLWORLD, a private social network for VIPs. After the intrusion, the two allegedly attempted to extort $1 million from the website's admins by threatening to disclose sensitive information. ASMALLWORLD is a social-networking service for the social elite. Mem... |
18 September 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone might be one of the hottest handsets available on the market at the moment, yet it seems that it might also turn to be one of the most hackable. According to an iPhone developer familiar with the technology, the current data encryption system that is present on Apple's product is extremely ea... |
24 July 2009
08:28 GMT |
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With the technological advances that have recently been made in the market of computer graphics, current graphics processing units can now be used for something other than powering computer systems designed for gaming applications. It appears that, thanks to a relatively new piece of software, GPUs can be used to cra... |
16 January 2009
09:12 GMT |
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Greenpeace announced that over 200 people and 100 logging and charcoal companies faced prosecution in Brazil for their involvement in a large-scale fraud case. The companies allegedly contracted hacking groups that broke into the government's network and altered the records in order to allow for excessive defore... |
13 December 2008
06:56 GMT |
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A former computer network administrator from San Jose, California, will receive a prison sentence between 6 and 12 years after pleading guilty to multiple counts of second degree burglary, computer hacking, identity theft, and possession and intention to sell illicit methamphetamines.Andrew Madrid, 34, used to work a... |
14 November 2008
10:08 GMT |
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The website has been taken offline as soon as the security breach was noticed on Monday and was restored the next day, although in a temporary static form. This incident follows accusations of voter registration fraud coming from the Republican Party, the Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner being a Democrat.With... |
23 October 2008
08:35 GMT |
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The FBI executed a search warrant and raided the house of 19-year-old Josh Holly, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, who is suspected of hacking into the e-mail and MySpace account of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, the lead actress from the popular Disney series Hannah Montana, and posting stolen provocative pictures belonging to th... |
23 October 2008
06:41 GMT |
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The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been the target of fraudsters, reported a local paper on Sunday. According to Le Journal du Dimanche, Mr. Sarkozy's bank account has been hacked and small sums of money have been withdrawn without his authorization. French Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs, Luc Ch... |
21 October 2008
07:00 GMT |
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FOX News reports that the network of the World Bank Group suffered several security breaches in the past year and a half, but a World Bank spokesman dismissed the story. According to a leaked memo, a serious security breach occurred in July and resulted in at least 18 servers being compromised.The World Bank Group (W... |
13 October 2008
10:11 GMT |
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The police executed a bench warrant and arrested a 60-year-old man resident of Solana Beach, California. He is charged with computer intrusion and extortion and he is scheduled to appear in a federal court on October 31. Bruce Mengler is accused of hacking his way into a promotional website belonging to the US branch... |
24 September 2008
07:39 GMT |
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A media storm started as the e-mail account of Alaska Governor and republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin got hacked yesterday. Lots of sites reported that a group of hackers got access to the account and posted samples and screen shots of the content online. By other accounts, a single person was respons... |
18 September 2008
04:15 GMT |
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The Large Hadron Collider has recently been the target of a hacker attack, which raised serious concerns about the security capabilities of world's biggest experiment. So, yes, LHC is in the spotlight again. It seems that the public hysteria caused by the hypothetical idea that LHC could trigger the formati... |
13 September 2008
04:24 GMT |
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Monitoring the underground hacking forums, the analysts at Panda Security have come across a malware spreading tool that can be used even by the less programming-aware individuals. The tool provides a simple interface for creating a YouTube look-alike website which can be used to spread any malicious file.The program... |
12 September 2008
10:47 GMT |
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The South Korean army claims that its military secrets are continuously being threatened by North Korean espionage attacks. The most recent attack covered by South Korean newspapers seems to have taken place from behind the computer desk. The English version of the Chosun news website claims that its journalists hav... |
2 September 2008
09:54 GMT |
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According to the Korean police, an unidentified Chinese hacker managed to get hold of 9 million credit records that were sold on for a profit in Korea. The person responsible for stealing these records is known only as Chun, and it seems that he managed to flee to China before the Korean law enforcement agencies had ... |
29 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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It would seem that people who are up to no good and want to get your machine infected, take less time to do so than in the past. By using information available to the general public, they are able to prepare an attack in a shorter time limit. Generally speaking, it takes about 24 hours from the moment a vulnerability... |
29 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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According to a recently released study conducted by McAfee Avert Labs entitled "Does Size Matter? The security challenge of the SMB", most organizations believe that simply because they are not well known enough, they will not be targeted by hacker attacks. Just to put things in perspective, there are about 6.4 milli... |
28 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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It seems that Apple, company that specializes in consumer electronics and software solutions, is looking for someone who is skilled enough so as to successfully hack the iPhone. Someone could in theory successfully attack an iPhone, since it has recently been revealed that even the newly launched iPhone 2.0 is vulner... |
25 July 2008
09:43 GMT |
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Earlier this month, a network admin working for the city of San Francisco, locked everybody out of the fiberWAN network which handled much of the city's private, confidential data. Terry Childs, the admin in question, who previously stated that he was not guilty, has now given up the password, but not to the law... |
25 July 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Larry Mendte, who used to work as a news presenter for a Philadelphia TV station, somehow managed to gain access to the e-mail of his co-presenter, Alycia Lane. The information he had access to for a period in excess of two years was later on leaked to abloids and resulted in Lane's downfall. Since the start of ... |
22 July 2008
11:03 GMT |
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The Pwnie Awards are all about celebrating the greatest achievements and the most notable failures in the security industry. This year the awards committee had to pick 37 nominees out of a list of 134 submissions, and then place each of them in the proper category (there are 9 awards categories in total). The winners... |
22 July 2008
04:43 GMT |
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According to Ohad Rosen, the web page that he administrates has recently come under constant hacker attack, presumably of Iranian origin. The cause of the attack is a message posted on the site, from Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, addr... |
22 July 2008
03:53 GMT |
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It has come to light that this past weekend, the official Malaysian web page of the internationally renowned security software provider Kaspersky, as well as the S.E.S. online shop web page, have been successfully hacked. A Turkish cracker going by the name of "m0sted" managed to hack the previously mentioned web pag... |
21 July 2008
08:37 GMT |
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Over the weekend, the web page of Mikhail Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, has been under an intense DDOS (denial-of-service) attack, which caused it to temporarily shut down. According to the Shadowserver Foundation, the attack began on Saturday morning and rendered the web page unavailable for a period of abo... |
21 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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As promised, NXP has sued the Radboud University so that it would not publicly disclose how Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs managed to crack the Oyster card which uses NXP Mifare technologies. The court hearings which began on the 10th of July came to an end today when the judge ruled in favor of the university."Radboud... |
18 July 2008
11:08 GMT |
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A few days back we were reporting that the actions of one network administrator had put the city of San Francisco's FiberWAN network under complete lockdown. Terry Childs, whose password was the only one that could access the network, has pleaded "not guilty" at the court hearing held yesterday. Another interest... |
18 July 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Kevin Mitnick used to obtain security credentials not by using special hacking software or tools, but by using social engineering. This way he would manage to get passwords and code which he would later use to hack into company networks. His most prestigious hacks include Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Siemens and ... |
16 July 2008
05:23 GMT |
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San Francisco's multimillion-dollar FiberWAN network, which is used to handle delicate information in regard to law enforcement documents and city payroll files, was hijacked by a 43 year old disgruntled employee. Terry Childs used to work for the city of San Francisco as a computer network administrator and it... |
16 July 2008
03:02 GMT |
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There was a time when a hacker could steal your bank info and sell it for as much as $100. But according to Finjan, a company that specializes in providing Internet gateway solutions, that price has gone down to $10-$20 because the offer has soared while the demand remained relatively the same.Finjan has recently re... |
15 July 2008
04:14 GMT |
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A hacker known online as AKILL - his real name is Owen Thor Walker - has recently been brought to justice in New Zealand. The 18 year old admitted to six charges of e-crime as well as to being the mastermind behind a botnet that led to damages of over $20 million and caused a Pennsylvania University server to crash. ... |
15 July 2008
03:05 GMT |
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Just recently, we were reporting that the UK Government was asking for tighter SMEs data security and that phishing attacks on Irish SMEs were on the increase. According to Firebrand, a company that specializes in IT training services, one solution would be not to wait for an actual attack, and to simulate one yourse... |
14 July 2008
11:29 GMT |
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The name of this hacker is Abdul-Rahman Mahaini, he is 26 years old and he lives in Damascus, Syria. According to him, he has so far cracked software programs worth millions of dollars and he will continue to do so, no matter how difficult it is to crack a certain program. He says that he does not do this for the hac... |
14 July 2008
05:00 GMT |
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Servers with open SSH ports have recently begun to come under hacker attack, which seems to be coordinated, although it is not automatically reported because the hackers employ a brute force attack from more than one machine. Nazar Aziz, IT consultant and developer, has been vigilant enough to detect the attack, whi... |
14 July 2008
03:26 GMT |
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A man from the eastern province of Jiangsu has been found guilty of hacking into the Red Cross website that was collecting funds for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. A court of law issued a sentence of 24 months of incarceration time and a fine of 5,000 Yuan (which is roughly about $731 or 370).The hacker... |
12 July 2008
04:26 GMT |
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It has recently come to light that Apple Developer Connection simply gave away the password to Marko Karppinen's account. He is the CEO of MK&C, a software development studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which designs and develops Mac software. How could such a thing happen? Well, it seems that all the scammer ha... |
10 July 2008
04:16 GMT |
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It would seem that in order to make a few bucks the Russian hackers are not satisfied with the traditional means anymore and are turning to recruitment sites. A nice profit can be made by harvesting all that information and then selling it to interested parties on the black market. The group of hackers responsible fo... |
9 July 2008
08:29 GMT |
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All gamers must be warned that trying to access the US Sony PlayStation web page poses a security threat. According to Sophos (company that specializes in offering anti-spam and antivirus software solutions) an SQL injection vulnerability was exploited by hackers in order to put their malicious code on the web page. ... |
2 July 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Three hackers, Yuriy Rakushchynets, Ivan Biltse and Angelina Kitaeva, managed to get access to Citibank ATM machines placed in 7-Eleven stores and steal $2 million. Citibank is not the only one to blame since the entire system is owned and operated alongside two other companies (Cardtronics Inc. and Fiserv Inc.). All... |
2 July 2008
08:33 GMT |
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If you are interested in hacking news, then you must know about 20 years old hacker MaddoxX - the guy managed, one year ago, to hack a third party Valve file server called Steam Cyber Cafe and posted online an archived file that included credit card numbers, transaction amounts, the company's supposed bank balan... |
30 June 2008
03:41 GMT |
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iPods, portable media players, as well as the vast majority of the consumer electronics gadgets are allegedly posing a threat to the future development of the Internet. According to a study conducted by Professor Jonathan Zittrain, such devices are sealed plastic shells that are allegedly turning their users into pas... |
8 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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The promised data security for mobile storage device is slowly but surely being dismantled piece by piece. You may remember our previous reports about defeated biometric security using open-source software; however, this new episode of "Poking into other's data" series takes hacking into the hardware playground.... |
26 March 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Nick Breese, security researcher based in New Zealand, has recently announced, at the Kiwicon hacker conference in Wellington, that Sony's PlayStation 3 can be used to crack passwords. Maybe this wouldn't be such great news, because sometimes these hackers seem to be able to crack passwords with no tools a... |
28 November 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Is it hard to be a hacker? How do I become a hacker? I want to learn more about hacking! Those are the things that I often hear or see on forums. Somebody asked me the other day if I know how to hack a site and whether it's hard or not. I'm no hacker, I'm just a journalist. However, Petko D. Petkov aka... |
9 October 2007
03:07 GMT |
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Security experts are always trying to make other people see that their systems are vulnerable, fact which means they need improvement! This is just another one of those cases - white hatters at ProCheckUp have given a proof of concept in an earlier paper on how easy it is to make a total mockery of Axis 2100 IP camer... |
8 October 2007
10:35 GMT |
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Having the latest security programs doesn't seem to help much. One of the biggest threats to your security is your own hand, so to saywell, I'm actually talking about your e-mail. Maybe you think that I'm paranoid, but I bet you won't say the same after reading this article! Based on the fact tha... |
1 October 2007
05:33 GMT |
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Distributed denial of service attacks are really something often used by hackers nowadays. How come they use them so much? One might ask. Well, for one thing, they're efficient, then, there's the fact that you can do it with a botnet, but I think that the number of DDoS occurrences has risen so high as of l... |
20 September 2007
08:06 GMT |
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Perhaps you were wondering how people become hackers and where from they get the resources to do all that nasty stuff. Well, in case you really were asking yourself such questions, then this article is for you. Well, there is no such thing as a black-hatter school, or none that I've heard of. Hackers are usually... |
17 September 2007
06:09 GMT |
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