Full FeedYour social security number may not be as secure as you think
We all know to keep our social security number private, and not share it with the masses, right? After all, if the wrong person gets a hold of it, that could be a very bad thing. Our social security number (SSN) is like the magic little key to our financial… Continue Reading »
Dallas security guard facing charges for installing malware on hospital computers
A Dallas security guard charged with hacking the computer system of the hospital he worked for was busted by a fellow hacker, but didn’t help his case when he posted videos of his exploits on YouTube. Jesse McGraw, known by the hacker name GhostExodus, posted videos to YouTube in which… Continue Reading »
Palm warns Pre devs to cut tethering
Yesterday, I talked about how some hackers have been working on the Palm Pre, gotten root, and can make some interesting changes to WebOS. The ultimate goal of the project was to find a way to enable tethering on the Palm Pre. Now it looks like that’s not really going… Continue Reading »
Pre devs can get root, play NES
We’re just over a week removed from the launch of the Palm Pre and it looks to be shaping up as a fairly hacker friendly device. Within a few days users had figured out that the famous Konami code (“upupdowndownletftrightleftrightbastart”) enables dev mode on the device. Then it was found… Continue Reading »
Recession sending contractors from Silicon Valley to cyberwarfare development
Young talent that would ordinarily be flocking to Silicon Valley are heading for new an exotic pastures: military companies. The government is pushing hard into the cyberwarfare arena and with the recession hitting tech industries hard, their high paying jobs have dried up. Almost all of the big military companies,… Continue Reading »
YouTube still cleaning up after “Porn Day” Campaign
Yesterday was proclaimed “Porn Day” on a couple of oh so brilliant sites and an image board; and as a result, YouTube was slammed with tons of explicit clips left and right. Obviously, these clips violated their terms of use, and they were madly trying to remove them, but the… Continue Reading »
Customer hacks ISP website, does what the ISP could not and then gets a thank you
This is one story of hacking a website and making a change to your account that seems to have had a happy ending. According to the story, Douglas Mezzer and his roommate had a DSL account with iiNet and everything was going great until his roommate moved out. The DSL… Continue Reading »
The Nokia 1100 is selling for over $30,000 - to hackers
If you happen to have an old Nokia 1100 that was made in a certain factory in Germany lying around the house, you may be able to say “Show me the money!” Well, if you wanted to sell to hackers that is. It seems that there are claims the phone… Continue Reading »
Hackers: potential hires or rebel scum?
It is a tough economy and the tech sector has been hit particularly hard. Finding a job is getting tougher, unless you devise and unleash a worm that grabs attention, that is. Take the plight of Michael “Mikeyy” Mooney, for example. This is the teen who claims he was behind… Continue Reading »
Conficker continues to move
Well, the Conficker worm is still alive and well and out there on the move. Though some thought it was just an April Fool’s joke, the fact that it is still here, still coming up with new mutations, kind of dispels that theory. Just last week, Symantec detected the latest… Continue Reading »
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