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Anonymous Just Took Down NAMBLA’s Homepage to Protest Pedophilia Pride Day
As you may be hopefully unaware, today is Alice Day, a day inspired by Lewis Carroll’s debated sexual attraction to Alice In Wonderland’s very underage and very real counterpart, where proud pedophiles...
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What a DDoS Attack Looks Like
When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn’t much to see. Maybe you’ll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world...
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Google Glass Gets a Whole Lot Creepier When You Root It
Google Glass has plenty of folks a little scared of being recorded in secret, but saying “OK Glass” and the recording light are kind of a dead giveaway. But a rooted pair of specs? Those could be a...
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Looks Like the Samsung Galaxy S4 Will Get CyanogenMod After All
Despite a locked bootloader and rumours to the contrary, it seems Samsung’s latest Galaxy S4 flagship will get a touch of the Mod after all, probably because Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik has one himself....
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Should It Be Illegal to Exploit a Video Poker Bug and Win Big?
A Las Vegas District Court judge is currently weighing a big question that you may have opinions on: is exploiting a bug on a casino’s video-poker machine illegal or not? Wired reports that a pair of...
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Gaming League Employee Turns 14,000 Users Into Bitcoin-Mining Zombies
A good Bitcoin mining rig is hard to find. They’re expensive, they take up space, they wrack up huge energy bills. Not at all practical for your average ESEA gaming network employee. Nefarious code...
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Yet Another Big Twitter Account Has Been Hacked
There was McDonalds, and Jeep, and then CBS and the AP. Now E! Online has joined the illustrious club of Twitter accounts that have been hacked. The account has been suspended, but not before claiming...
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US Finally Blames China’s Government and Military of Cyberespionage
While fingers have long been pointed from US shores towards China when it comes to online attacks, the Pentagon has now directly accused the country’s government and military of cyberespionage. The...
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The Secret NSA Search Tips That Will Make You a Spy
Following a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, America’s National Security Agency has been forced to make public a book it produced called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research....
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How to Make a Website Fart Whenever Someone Scrolls. Yes, Really.
It’s been a tough week for The Onion— it was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army — but it really knocked this one home. Fart Scroll. Code to make your website fart. The code is a simple enough. Just...
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An Imprisoned Hacker Invented an ATM Attachment That Stops Skimmers
Valentin Boanta has a lot of free time on his hands—five years worth, to be exact. That’s because Boanta is currently serving a prison sentence for, according to Reuters, “supplying gadgets to an...
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China Is Hacking America Again
Just three months after hacks by China’s People’s Liberation Army came to an abrupt halt, the country is once again attacking US targets reports the New York Times. Hacks on organisations like the Wall...
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Twitter Finally Has Two-Factor Authentication: Here’s How to Get It
It’s about damn time. After an endless, occasionally entertaining — but mostly disconcerting — string of high-profile hacks, Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to verify that yes,...
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Iran Has Hacked US Energy Companies
According to the WSJ, Iran has hacked US oil, gas and power companies. The hackers were able to gain access to control-system software “that could allow them to manipulate oil or gas pipelines”....
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Hackers That Were Barely Even Trying Stole 44 Million Records Last Year
When you think of hackers, your mind might jump to something like a Boris Grishenko (aka “that dude from Goldeneye“) typing away on a keyboard one-handedly with virtuosic skill. A criminal mastermind....
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Report: Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Sensitive US Weapon Design Files
According to a confidential report that’s been prepared for the US Pentagon, Chinese hackers have stolen blueprints for some of the country’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems. Citing the report...
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Anonymous Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine and Gets Hacked
Probably while they’re all sleeping, the closest thing the Anonymous collective has to an official Twitter account got hacked. @YourAnonNews is currently spouting lots of crap about “Jimmies” and...
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China and the US are Going to Sit Down and Talk About all This Hacking
China’s been hacking up a storm recently, up to and including stealing sensitive confidential weapon designs from the US. Things started coming to something of a head early last month, when the...
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Your iPhone Can Be Hacked With a Modified Charger
It might pay to be more careful about where you juice up your phone — because a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have put together a prototype charger capable of installing...
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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Gets Two Year Prison Term For Bank Hack Job
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the co-founders of the Pirate Bay who’s currently in jail anyway for his part in setting up the piracy network, has been sentenced again. This time getting two years for...
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