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Hacker shows how Google Glass could watch its user’s every move

, Apr 30th 2013 Discuss [0]

Jay Freeman, an iOS and Android developer known for his popular Cydia app store accessible by jailbroken iPhones, has discovered a scary security flaw in Google Glass. While toying around with the Explorer edition of Google Glass, Freeman discovered that the device's lack of a PIN code or any other form of authentication could make it easy for hackers to install surveillance malware onto the device. Read The Full Story

Reddit suffers down-time due to DDoS attack

, Apr 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

Reddit was targeted by a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) attack earlier yesterday morning, resulting in some unpleasant downtime for Redditors all around. Why it became the target of an attack is still a mystery, but a Reddit representative told the Huffington Post that "All we know is it is blatantly malicious." Some speculate that the DDoS attack was related to Reddit's manhunt for the Boston Marathon terrorists. Read The Full Story

Federal Aviation Administration says Android plane hijacking isn’t possible

, Apr 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

On Thursday, a man named Hugo Tesco demonstrated at the Hack in a Box security conference a way to hijack an airplane using an Android device - and nothing else. Obviously, such a claim drew quite a bit of attention, including from the Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Administration, both of which have come forward with statements that it simply isn't possible. Read The Full Story

The War Z player data compromised after security breach

, Apr 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Those of you who play Hammerpoint's The War Z may want to change your passwords. Hackers have breached databases in The War Z that held personal player info. Players' email addresses, passwords, in-game names, IP addresses, and game log-in credentials have all been compromised. Hammerpoint has temporarily shut down its servers for The War Z and for its forums to address the issue and find out the scope of the damage. Read The Full Story

China agrees to discuss cyber security with U.S.

, Mar 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

China is willing to talk with the United States about the ongoing cyber security issues that have befallen them recently. It's been a back and forth war between both the United States and China. The U.S. accused China of hacking into various businesses and news sites, while China insists that they have been the victims of many cyber attacks as well, many of the attacks which supposedly came from the U.S. Read The Full Story

Colin Powell’s Facebook hacker also breached Bush Family e-mail accounts

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

It turns out that Colin Powell's Facebook hack wasn't just an isolated incident performed by a 13-year old with good password-guessing skills. The hacker, who is known as Guccifer, is also the same hacker who breached e-mail accounts belonging to over a dozen of George W. Bush's friends and family members. He obtained "interesting e-mails", photos, list of home addresses, cell phone numbers, and more. The hacker even obtained the gate code to Bush's home. Read The Full Story

China calls for global “rules and cooperation” on hacking issues

, Mar 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

China has once again denied its involvement in a series of hacks that plagued various entities in the United States, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and several U.S. companies. The Chinese government believes that the allegations were based on groundless facts and that this is just some scheme to worsen China's reputation. Read The Full Story

Eric Schmidt predicts China’s hacker war

, Feb 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the soon to be released book "The New Digital Age" authored by Google's Eric Schmidt has been reviewed and spilled early by the Wall Street Journal. Their review includes words from the author regarding the future digital dominance of China across our planet, especially as it pertains to the United States in the very near future. This is not the first time Schmidt has predicted political waves crashing in before they've gone ahead and happened - an essay by Schmidt and colleague Jared Cohen called “The Digital Disruption" (published in 2010) correctly predicted Arab Spring (more or less). Could this be the next great digital high tide coming towards us? Read The Full Story

Iran cyberattacked US banks according to government officials

, Jan 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

Late last year, multiple US banks were attacked online by what was believed to be a hacker group. Now government officials are saying it was actually the work of Iran, possibly in response to cyberattacks it has suffered from the US. This was determined when an investigation revealed that the method used to attack the banks was too sophisticated to be the work a fringe group. Read The Full Story

“Cosmo the God” hacker takes over another Westboro Twitter account

, Dec 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

The 15-year-old hacker who goes by the name of Cosmo and Cosmo the God was sentenced to probation in November for his part in a variety of large hacking incidents that happened throughout the year. That hasn't stopped him, however, with the hacker targeting the Westboro Baptist Church's members and picking their Twitter accounts off one by one. His current target? Fred Phelps Jr. Read The Full Story

Operation Hackerazzi hacker sentenced to 10 years

, Dec 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

The mission was dubbed Operation Hackerazzi by law enforcement, who sought out the hacker responsible for breaching several celebrities' email accounts and posting their personal messages - and nude photos - on the Internet for all to see. That hacker is named Christopher Chaney, and on Monday, he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his actions. Read The Full Story

Former Windows hacker joins Apple, helps protect OS X from malware

, Dec 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Apple has hired Kristin Paget, a former Microsoft employee who worked as a hacker for the company, which used her and a few others to find security issues in Windows Vista. After working for Microsoft, Paget was employed by Recursion Ventures, a security firm. Now Apple has snapped her up to focus on security for OS X. Read The Full Story
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