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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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...
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" Sreeram Chaulia 02 May 2008 Beijing’s intrusions into government computers across the planet — most recently in India — are illegal and outrageous While world publicity has mainly focused on the intrusion of the Chinese into the email...
Amazing that someone so young could commit such an enormously complex crime."A New Zealand teenager accused of involvement in an international cyber-crimering which skimmed millions of dollars from bank accounts has been convictedof illegal computer hacking.Owen Thor Walker,...
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iTunes, hacked? Say it ain't so."Jon Lech Johansen became the "enfant terrible" of the DRM industry when he released software which cracked the encryption codes on DVDs, aged just 15.
His firm,...
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A UK teen named Shane Kelly has found that his penchant for taking things apart will lead to permanent job security: as long as business is conducted online, companies are going to need real security experts:...
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I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but hacking into the tram system and derailing the trains is probably not the smartest move."A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz...
A finnish security firm called F-Secure was recently a victim of a hack on their webserver. It affected a customer forum F-Secure was hosting.
The front page was replaced with a logo and some text...
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"A teenager in New Zealand has been questiond by police in connection with an international network of computer hackers who have allegedly stolen millions of euro from bank accounts.
The 18-year-old was detected after an investigation involving police from the US and the...