"British hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States." Although Gary McKinnon admits that he was able to gain access to sensitive networks in the USA, he was not malicious. He suffers from a mental disability, and hence...
opinion by LoopZilla | 14 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago 101 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
A 19-year-old American man has admitted knocking the Church of Scientology's websites offline in a series of electronic attacks in 2008. Dmitri Guzner of Verona, New Jersey pleaded guilty to charges of cybercrime against the religious organisation and related websites, which...
Premier Election Solutions (don't call them Diebold) has finally admitted that its vot-counting software is flawed. During the past several US elections, the company swore that everything was just fine, and took...
created by jordan | 33 wks ago | updated 33 wks ago 72 views | 24 recommendations | 1 comment
One of the best known music sharing "services", The Pirate Bay, was amongst the catches today in Sweden: " STOCKHOLM - Police have made a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server during an apartment raid in a Stockholm suburb, an official...
created by zeet | 35 wks ago 72 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Ever wonder why Apple switched to a new external dispay interface? HIgh-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) control. Long story short, it's a way to use monitors as DRM tools, preventing end users from...
created by jordan | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago 83 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
" You wake up on a cold winter's morning and find you're feeling "under the weather." You're sneezing, coughing and hacking up a storm, signs that you'll be spending your day sick and "groggy.""
created by stvalentine | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 152 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
What's the latest Virtual fad?"Online virtual marriage that lead to virtual divorce causing virtual avatar murder" Sudden virtual divorce causes a Japanese women to go loco and now faces charges for hacking....
created by francisrivera | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 326 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
A proof-of-concept hacking demonstration shows, once again, that there's no such thing as a "small" security flaw. In this case, Gmail contains a crack in its wall which allows phishers to squeeze in and spoof...
created by jordan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 88 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
BLOGGER'S PREFACE: I often post to The Washington Post's "The Fix" political blog. The following would not post last night. After three attempts, I received a full-screen message that my post was "being held for approval by the blog owner." I believe this...
A 60-year old hacker obtained a customer database used for Maserati's Free Omaha Steak promotion and tried to blackmail the automaker into sending him money in exchange for the information. Check out the...
created by Jason Sanders | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 709 views | 0 recommendations | 8 comments
Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly's website hacked " Two days after someone broke into the email account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, unknown intruders have hacked the website of conservative...
"TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday. ...
Six months ago, security researcher Dan Kaminsky was looking for a faster way to host data on the internet. What he found was the biggest internet security hole in a decade... and today the exploit code has been...
created by futureprogress | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1325 views | 47 recommendations | 18 comments
Sometimes security begins at the most simple level."A researcher performing social engineering exploits on behalf of several U.S. banks and other firms in the past year has “stolen” thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. Joshua Perrymon, hacking...
created by PEP | 1 year ago 207 views | 7 recommendations | 2 comments
In perhaps what could be detrimental to Indo-China Peace talks, the growing number of Internet related threats through the forms of BOT attacks, key logging software and Mapping networks.Although there seems to be...
created by kaizadbhamgara | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 681 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments