BIME Hack Day borns!!!!
The gretest unconference encounter in the state, especially created to encourage creativity and invention that will get together music lovers and new technology professionals with leading companies of this sector. Two days in which MAKERS, DEVELOPERS and HACKERS will...
Chrome was hacked and used to take over windows....here's the whole story.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57573064-83/researchers-win-$100000-for-chrome-hack-that-leaves-windows-vulnerable/
I recently read an article raising questioning about how secure MSE will be once Windows 8 releases. It seems like that will make MSE a big target for hackers. Will MS be able to keep a head of them? Are there any sites comparing AV programs that a regular user can use to compare? Something...
Fox News has reported that one of its Twitter accounts was recently breached by hackers.
Read Full Story: Twitter Hackers Report Obama Dead / Infopackets.com
In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDnet reports.
The hackers say they wanted to demonstrate the sites insecurity to get them to fix their vulnerabilities.
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Internet hackers said June19 they have compromised the security of more than 1,000 accounts at a Connecticut-based FBI partner organization.
LulzSec was implicated in the attack. It's getting hard who to believe.
Read Full Story: Hackers claim attack on FBI partner in Conn. - BusinessWeek
For several months, hackers have been having a heyday taking down Web sites and leaking data from compromised servers with victims ranging from the CIA and U.S. Senate to Sony, Citigroup and the Turkish government.
A 19-year old was arrested Tuesday but they can't confirm he's part of either...
Hackers are aggressively exploiting a just-patched Flash vulnerability, serving attack code "on a fairly large scale" from compromised sites as well as from their own malicious domains, a security researcher said June 17.
Attacks show up in Korea, Taiwan, and India.
They're also attacking...
"From the rise of retro fashion trends, art, music, and literature (as inspired by some great 21st century works of literature like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and the complete stereo remastered works of The Beatles), I explore the notion of a Hacking Renaissance taking place today and...
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They're at it again asking followers to test the emails on Facebook and other sites.
It seems LulzSec is trying to outdo Anonymous.
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Citibank was breached by URL manipulation
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Hackers breached Citibank security using simple URL manipulation - Update - The H Security: News and Features
Although no statement has been released on the web site of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it has been reported by the New York Times and Bloomberg that the IMF has been the victim of a "large and serious" cyber attack.
Read Full Story: IMF attack "a very major breach" - The H...
Sam Spade to investigate
Sony has gone all film noire and hired a bunch of private dicks to sort out its security woes.
Apparently the offices of Guidance Software and Data Forte, were approached by a broad who said they worked for one of the largest hardware companies in the world...
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Aussie boffins claim to have created a virtually unhackable data transfer.
While we know people have made this claim before, we have to admit that this technique strikes us as pretty secure, as your average script kiddie rarely has access to quantum states...
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Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack
Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack | Arik Hesseldahl | NewEnterprise | AllThingsD
A relatively simple hack has been used to compromise at least 500,000 Web sites, and perhaps as many as 1.5...
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The Department of Defense will employ hackers under a brave new scheme pioneered by a hacker gone straight, but will it work?
Since the dawn of computing there's been a cold war between those who run computer systems and those who attack them.
And never the twain shall meet...
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An unknown number of Link Removed after authorities discovered that hackers broke into one of the company's business partner's databases and stole information.
Computerworld quotes a McDonald's spokeswoman as saying:
We have been informed by one of our long-time business partners, Arc...
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