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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 295 days ago
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Born to tinkerFor as long as he can remember, Shane Kelly has taken a keen interest in taking things apart. When he was 11 and his family took delivery of its first PC, he promptly pulled off the cover and disassembled it, much to the chagrin of his parents.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/10/certified_ethical_hacker/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register10th February 2008For as long as he can remember, Shane Kelly has taken a keen interest in taking things apart. When he was 11 and his family took delivery of its first PC, he promptly pulled off the cover and disassembled it, much to the chagrin of his parents."They weren't too impressed at the time," Kelly, who is now 16, says. "But I put it back together. It worked."A few month read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
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Gets firm with firmwareA teen hacker known for his deftness with iPhones has figured out how to unlock models running the latest firmware versions by cracking a protection that that has frustrated hackers for weeks.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
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Told to sit on the naughty stoolA woman who admitted rifling through emails in AOL accounts maintained by her former employer, Nannies Inc, while working for a competitor agency, has been fined £500 plus £60 costs.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 286 days ago
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=11441By Robert McMillanIDG news service15 February 2008Hell hath no fury than a hacker scorned. When a hacker going by the name Chujwamwdupe published attack code that exploited a recently patched bug in Microsoft Office 2003 earlier this week, it seemed as if he were publishing the software out of spite.At the top of his submission, Chujwamwdupe wrote about an email informing him that "Unfortunately, Microsoft has refused to credit you using the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 286 days ago
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p strong The man who cracked the DVD encryption scheme releases a social media utility that can move iTunes purchases to other portable devices. strong br p ...Automate Software Builds with Visual Build Pro Easily create an automated, repeatable process for building and deploying software. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 285 days ago
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The Dorozhko DefenseOleksandr Dorozhko made almost $300,000 in stock-option trading by using insider information that was obtained after someone hacked into the network of a company called IMS Health. Now, the Ukrainian resident is exploiting a loophole that may allow him to keep the ill-gotten gains for good.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 284 days ago
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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=322372By Jan RavensbergenCanwest News Service February 20, 2008MONTREAL -- Quebec provincial police said Wednesday they have dismantled what they called the largest and most damaging computer-hacking network ever uncovered in Canada.During several action-packed early-morning hours Wednesday, provincial police and RCMP officers dismantled the latest hacking ring by successfully carrying out 17 lightning-fast raids in 12 towns small and large across Quebec, incl read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 273 days ago
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/28/long-hacker-csc-tech-security-cx_ag_0229hacker.htmlBy Andy Greenberg Forbes.com02.29.08Hackers have a lot of fancy names for the technical exploits they use to gain access to a company's networks: cross-site scripting, buffer overflows or the particularly evil-sounding SQL injection, to name a few. But Johnny Long prefers a simpler entry point for data theft: the emergency exit door."By law, employees have to be able to leave a building without showing crede read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 271 days ago
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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/03/content_7710750.htmwww.chinaview.cn 2008-03-03 MACAO, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The online directory page of Macao's Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) was hacked last Saturday, but has resumed normal operation hours later that day, according to a press statement released on Monday by the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government. The SAR government said in the statement that since the hijacked website only provides public informa read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 269 days ago
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/030608-hacker-cracks-smartcard.htmlBy John CoxNetwork World 03/06/2008People are starting to wake up to the fact that RFID-enabled smartcards now can be far more easily, and cheaply, cracked than ever before, as a trio of young computer experts recently showed.These are a particular type of processor-embedded cards, and are different from credit cards. The actual decryption work by the researchers was done on the widely deployed Mifare Classic wireless smartcard, now m read more »
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