A few hours ago that the FBI has closed the Megaupload download site and arrested the founder and the Members of the administration of the web but no retaliation has been swift and both social networks and in...
Attacks by spammers and hackers are up When you see people glomming onto your email correspondence and comments here on NowPublic, you must act at once to 1) report it to the administrator, 2) report it to the...
" The mother of computer hacker Gary McKinnon has criticised the home secretary's decision to extradite her son to the US as "disgusting". McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome, is said to be at serious risk of...
created by Yommie | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 156 views | 4 recommendations | 4 comments
Cyber Attacks against the US Stock Exchange, the US Treasury, the State Department, and the White House took place earlier today, though no damage was done. The Russian MyDoom virus is apparently the culprit, though North Korea too k the heat at first. These denial-of-service...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1001 views | 18 recommendations | 3 comments
"Hack and tell: Teen hacker Mafiaboy writes memoir"" Michael Calce, aka "Mafiaboy," has written a memoir about how he temporarily shut down a handful of major Web sites and led the FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted...
created by RayBanBro66 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 441 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Today at 3:34pm (EST), a message was sent out from PM@PM.gc.ca, and appears to be a hacked message. It states it is from the Prime Minister himself, but is quite obviously not. An inside source has stated that the PMO is aware, and are currently investigating. See...
created by jackoneill | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 253 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
Some great advice from Larry Chiang:"In this post, I break down conference fundamentals. In keeping with the Las Vegas spirit of earning a win, preparing to do well and getting lucky (or as Mark Cuban says,...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 181 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
Once again Sequoia Voting Systems is in the news, and not in a good way. Not only can their machines not count, they're not even quite sure when they're supposed to be counting, or what it is that they're...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 172 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In this sudden burst of war between Georgia and Russia, Google Maps as an 'impartiall observer', removed the map details from the Georgian map , preventing the map from being used by the...
created by korzac | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1004 views | 5 recommendations | 4 comments
"With thousands of hackers milling around the Black Hat convention here, and widespread snooping on the public WiFi network, one place was supposed to be off limits: the press room.But in a case of reporters spying on other reporters, three journalists working for the French...
created by nirajan | 3 years ago 305 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Gary McKinnon was interested in aliens. He suspected that the US government was interested in aliens, too, perhaps more so than it was letting on to the public; so shortly after 9/11, he hacked into 97 computer...
created by julianw | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 4096 views | 29 recommendations | 8 comments
Credit cards are part of the foundation of our ID, but are also quite prone to theft or misappropriation. Case in point: As Visa investigates a series of fraud reports stemming from airport kiosk usage, Westjet is...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 268 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"Four high school students are charged of hacking into the Fort Bend Independent School District's computer network and altering grades for at least 60 students, as reported by the district officials. The case could be regarded as a felony case, since the financial loss of...
created by dimon | 3 years ago 548 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The DIY extravaganza known as Maker Faire has hit the Bay Area, and is taking this weekend at the San Mateo County Expo Center. Come on down and check out everything from crafts to momemade robots*, and meet...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 562 views | 0 recommendations | 5 comments
"Embedded RFID MiFare Classic RFID chip. The ability to read and replace information stored on a card people carry to expidite transactions, access control, and other "secure" exchanges of sensitive information is...
created by Edmund Jenks | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2780 views | 36 recommendations | 4 comments