"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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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.
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Following a hacker attack on Turkish government web sites, the Turkish police have announced that they have made the first arrests.
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Paul and Laura are back in action and here to bring you the hot stories that 'Softies are pinging each other about. Stories like these:
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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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Media outlets and a Twitter feed this week lobbed a controversial term into the public debate about cyber attacks over WikiLeaks: Link Removed the WikiLeaks' European Twitter feed declared, linking to a blog post of the same title.
"WikiLeaks Cyberwar!" read a CBS blog headline.
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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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Just a line to see if anyone has encounterd ,that internet nasty vista 2011 malware remover,that is a trojan,that attaches itself to windows secdurity center, or pretends to be windows security center, and begins to warn through various false scans and notices, of attacks and spyware ,and all...
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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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UK hacker Ashley Mitchell has admitted to stealing online poker chips from online gaming firm Zynga and laundering them through several facebook accounts in the hope of evading detection, after penetrating the poker game system.
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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.
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Microsoft's decision to not allow the name of the homegroup to be changes has got to rank among the poorest ever. I have only one windows 7 machine and it would be far easier to place it in my multi-machine group than it will be if I have to change all of the other machines. This for me is a...
Why are the feds trailing Moxie Marlinspike?
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Get more from this author
Posted in ID, 19th November 2010 19:25 GMT
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Last weekend, as US-based security researcher Moxie Marlinspike snoozed during a layover at the Frankfurt Airport...
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USB Battery Recharger Status Software contains Trojan, says US-CERT ( United States Emergency Readiness Team)
Back door Malware software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB Battery Charger contains Trojan Horse that gives hackers total access to a Windows PC.
The Energizer...