Nigeria: The World of Hacking
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:02:38 -0800

Phish a device: Hackers can connect to a loosely controlled wireless network (hot spot) via your smart phone, spoof the domain name server (DNS) entry for the gateway of their target application (such as facebook.com), and then host their own version ...

The cyber crimewave
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:41:53 -0800

Many of the email addresses exposed were already in the public domain . But it was a fitting end to the year: 2011 was the year of the hack , with organisations as diverse as Sony, the CIA and al-Qaeda all being attacked by hacktivists, state-sponsored ...

UFC's website hacked in response to continued support of SOPA and PIPA
Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:30:17 -0800

... as UFC.com for a time redirected to different domain names for a time. The site redirected to UGNazi.com, with a header stating they were the "Underground Nazi H4ck3r Gr0up" (screenshot below). One of the names taking credit for the hack goes by ...

Security researchers uncover more cyber spying
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:00:38 -0800

The webserver used in the C&C servers is mainly used by those who speak Chinese, most of the domains used on these campaigns are registered on a Chinese domain , and one of the tools used to redirect the traffic from the hacked servers is related to a ...

Gieson Cacho: The most anticipated video games of 2012
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:51:13 -0800

"Diablo III": The hack -and-slasher has a fanatical following, and for good reason: It's one of the most addictive experiences on the PC. Blizzard updates its franchise with new visuals but keeps the dungeon crawl mostly the same.

The GOP Primary: A Predictable Storm
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:43:44 -0800

And websites such as Politico and the New York Times' Five Thirty Eight blog hack out a permanent existence from our prediction mania. As of this writing, there is still some uncertainty about who will win the GOP primary.

SQL Injection Hack Infects 1 Million Web Pages
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:04:05 -0800

The attackers compromise sites via SQL injection, and it appears to have hit sites worldwide, with the most infections in The Netherlands "NL" domain , with 123000, and includes some .com and .org sites, as well. "At the moment it looks like it is ...

Audio Reviews, January 2012
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:01:10 -0800

Henry Case, a literally burned-out hacker (his nervous system was chemically fried when he was caught stealing on his last hack ), is given one last chance to demonstrate his talent. Hired by Armitage, a truly scary and unstable individual, ...

Samurai & Dragons : une video & un site officiel
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:37:43 -0800

Samurai & Dragons reunira plusieurs types de gameplay en quelques Mo, avec tout d'abord une partie hack 'n slash jouable a 4 en co-op, ensuite de la capture de monstres pour se constituer une armee via un deck de cartes, et enfin une partie gestion ou ...

NY Times Email Scandal: Times Employee Scam, Company Cover-Up or Email ...
Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:17:48 -0800

By Kara Kamenec, Daily Deal Media December 29, 2011 In less than 24 hours the NY Times email hack or spam or cover-up, what have you, has drawn more attention than actual stories the news source provides. Emails were sent out to about 8.6 million ...

Leveson inquiry: Ian Hislop, Alan Rusbridger, James Harding appear
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:37:19 -0800

... they obtained was already in the public domain . "The point is our journalists make sure they behave in a proper way," he says. 2.21pm: The Sunday Times has used blagging and impersonation in the past, Witherow says, but never phone hacking .

Anonymous' Stratfor hack outs intelligence officials across the world
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:55:28 -0800

Roughly 19000 email addresses ending in the domain extension .mil for the US military were published in the leak. John Bumgarner, a cyber-security expert at the US Cyber Consequences Unit, mulled over the data for the UK's Guardian and said that info ...

Information is the new currency. Is your data adequately protected?
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:11:53 -0800

Hacking , while it still happens and must be prevented, has become out-dated, and security breaches more often than not originate within the organisation itself, where users have no need to hack but simply ask for permission to access.

In the Middle East, Cyberattacks Are Flavored with Political Rhetoric
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:08:15 -0800

A Paris court [last November] fined the French energy giant, Electricite de France, nearly US$1.9 million for directing a hack into Greenpeace computers." Middle East malware (malicious software) authors know that most countries in the region filter ...

Leveson inquiry: Kelvin Mac Kenzie, Dominic Mohan appear
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:33:31 -0800

Mac Kenzie claims journalists don't have to pay police officers most of the time because they want to see certain information in the public domain . Mac Kenzie says it's "not an unknown way of doing business" in which somebody is paid to get an ...

Sedo: $1.5 Million in Sales
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:21:31 -0800

New York Apartments For Sale.com sold for $42000, proving that even a long domain name isn't necessarily a deterrent for a buyer. One other notable sale, the potential domain hack , ma.de, sold for $25000. As you will see below, there were quite a few ...

Anonymous veroffentlicht Stratfor-Kundendaten
Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:29:50 -0800

Gut 50.000 der E-Mailadressen sollen zu einer Domain der US-Regierung mit .gov oder .mil gehoren. Knapp 75.000 Datensatze sollen Kunden gehoren, die bei Stratfor eine Dienstleistung erworben haben. Die veroffentlichten Daten enthalten dabei Namen, ...

The Domino effect
Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:33:48 -0800

In the end, this "toxic bachelor" -- socialite hack Toby Young's unnecessarily withering description -- with the razor-blade cheekbones and movie-star pout just wanted to be loved. When this seemed not on the agenda, he ended it all.

Did Anonymous Trick You into Crashing Sites for Mega Upload Bust?
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:08:05 -0800

... into unwitting hack -attack patsies. The tool's a bait-and-switch, redirecting users from phony websites to the very real ones Anonymous intends to sabotage. In its attacks, Anonymous often employs a piece of public domain software dubbed LOIC, ...

News pays 37 hacking victims
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:28 -0800

Although the articles contained many inaccuracies, most had at least a "grain of truth" based on facts that had made their way into the public domain in a way that the actor could not understand. One article in 2003 related to a call from the actor's ...