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Stories are starting to fly around the Internet about the latest worm attacking Windows PCs.  Why is this one gaining such mass attention?  Because of the mystery surrounding it.  The Conficker worm has supposedly already infected millions of PCs around the world and it has plenty of people worried what… Continue Reading »

Wednesday was day one of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest, and the results are in.  Using fully patched copies of Safari, IE8, and Firefox, hackers broke them all.  They each failed to what is called hacker “Nils.” The Pwn2Own contest challenges experts in security to find and exploit vulnerabilities in… Continue Reading »

Oh, is Twitter making the news as of late.  And the latest is really not for a positive reason.  If you, like many, are a Twitter user, you better be careful since it was just found out that they are vulnerable to a major cross-site scripting (XSS) hack vulnerability which… Continue Reading »

The FTC and SEC, along with several other federal agencies, are investigating the data breach at Heartland Payment Systems.  The company processes about 100 million credit card transactions a month. Over 250,000 merchant locations were affected by the breach, which involved hackers stealing unencrypted data such as addresses, debit, and… Continue Reading »

Power over Ethernet (“PoE”) is nothing new.  Usually, PoE is used to power switches and other networking devices.  A company called Baumer Ltd. is using PoE to power cameras over Cat6 cable.  The “TXG camera” can shoot at VGA and higher resolutions and up to 90 frames per second.  Where… Continue Reading »

Security experts are warning users to be on the alert for a new hacking technique involving fake blogs.  Hackers have begun exploiting Google’s Trends Lab, which lists the days most searched topics.  They use this information to create real news stories which they then place on a fake blog in… Continue Reading »

You have FaceBook and MySpace and YouTube…..and now…A-Space.  Only unless you have top level clearances, you won’t be joining this social networking site. Well, let’s hope that’s how it really goes down. (Kind of scary that the government thinks the internet is secure when you really think about it). The… Continue Reading »

The alleged takeover of the City by the Bay may sound totally rare, but, unfortunately, it has happened before that disgruntled employees take to modern technology as a means for revenge. City tech employee Terry Childs, allegedly modified the city system so that he was the only one with top… Continue Reading »

Omar Khan, an 18-year-old student from Coto de Caza, California attempted to pull a move straight from the movie War Games. And I am not referring to the whole “lets play Global Thermonuclear War” incident, but instead the hacking into his schools computer to change his failing grades to passing… Continue Reading »

You say you first thought that the plot of “Live Free or Die Hard” was simply the product of a screenwriter’s overheated imagination? That the idea of cyberterrorists taking over electric utility/natural gas/traffic/financial market computer systems was just too far-fetched to be believed, even though it was uber-cool to see… Continue Reading »