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The Daily Slash: May 6, 2011

, May 6th 2011 Discuss [2]

Behold a fine few days of wonder! This edition of The Daily Slash I'd like to take you on a journey of the more important (or otherwise featured) items we've had happen this week. There's been an above-average amount of hands-on opportunities this week, and I want to make sure you don't miss a single one of them. Then there's the ongoing epic with Sony and their gaming network (hacks galore!) some fresh new earth-shattering games for Android, and oh my goodness, a whole new generation of iMac for your personal enjoyment. So very large! Read The Full Story

Data Security Expert: Sony Knew It Was Using Outdated Software Before PSN Breach

, May 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

Sony versus hackers continues and the company may now be more hot water based on revelations from the latest testimony to Congress on Wednesday. A data security expert from Purdue University, Dr. Gene Spafford told Congress that security experts knew Sony was still using outdated versions of the Apache Web server software, which did not have a firewall installed. Read The Full Story

LastPass hacked, users warned to change master passwords

, May 5th 2011 Discuss [5]

LastPass is a service for users that is free and adds a browser extension that is supposed to remember all the passwords a user has for various passwords on websites and other things online. The LastPass company has announced that the service was apparently hacked by outside sources and that an unspecified amount of data was transferred away from the servers. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 18 2011

, May 1st 2011 Discuss [2]

Welcome to the latest edition of the SlashGear Week in Review! Monday bought with it news that Nintendo was set to unveil a replacement for the Wii console at E3 this summer. The console itself is due to land for purchase sometime next year according to reports. The biggest story of the week has been the Sony PSN outage. Sony admitted that the Dev accounts and user accounts were hacked by outside sources. Read The Full Story

YouTube Boots Anonymous

, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [6]

Anonymous has been picking up operations in the wake of WikiLeaks. They are known for spreading their doctrinal messages through YouTube. Today, the folks over at YouTube said, "enough is enough" and pulled the three videos for Operation Sony, Operation Sony Update and Operation Black Out citing Terms of Service violations. Operation Black Out is the most recent video posted by the international hacktivist collective. They voiced their position regarding New Zealand's new copyright legislation, the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill. Does this have anything to do with Anon finally turning their Low Orbit Ion Cannons aka LOIC toward a national entity? Read The Full Story

Vatican says, “Hacking is A-OK”

, Apr 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Father Antonio Spadero wrote an article for the Civilta Cattolica that lauds the spirit of hacking. Hackers were vilified in the media during the 1990s. Because of that treatment the word hacker took on a different meaning as it spread into the common vernacular. This popular usage made hacker synonymous with computer criminal. Today, this is changing, and this article stands by the original, correct, and untarnished meaning of the word. Read The Full Story

Twitter Adds HTTPS Option To Secure Your Account From Hackers

, Mar 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

Twitter today announced a new settings option that will make your account more secure. Users accessing their Twitter accounts over unsecured internet connections such as a public WiFi network risk getting their accounts hacked, much like what happened to celebrity Ashton Kutcher a few weeks back at the TED conference. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Opens Kinect SDK Up To Hackers

, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft has proved their support of the "backyard" modding community today. News has just come out that the company will release the Kinect SDK for personal use this March. It will initially only be for non-commercial use. A follow-up commercial SDK has been outed as launching "later", possibly this Fall.

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iPhone Password Broken In 6 Minutes

, Feb 10th 2011 Discuss [10]

If you feel safe that your iPhone is secure because you set a password, this might make you a little nervous. Six minutes is all it will take an experienced hacker to break into your iPhone and get all your information. Watch a video of the process after the jump. Read The Full Story

British Man Faces Jail Term for Stealing 400 Billion Zynga Poker Chips

, Feb 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Ashley Mitchell, a 29 year old IT business man plead guilty yesterday to stealing 400 billion Zynga poker chips. Though these were virtual chips, they are worth real money, about $12 million. Mitchell was able to sell about a third of them for £53,000 ($86,000). He hacked into the developer's servers and stole the chips some time between June 30, 2009 and September 7, 2009. Read The Full Story

Google Offering $20,000 Prize to Hack Chrome

, Feb 3rd 2011 Discuss [3]

CanSecWest, the world’s leading conference in applied digital security, will be hosting the Pwn2Own contest pitting security researchers and exploit writers against popular web browsers and mobile devices. As part of that, Google is offering a $20,000 cash prize to any hacker who can successfully compromise a Windows 7 machine via Google’s Chrome web browser. Read The Full Story

Hacker sells access to Army website for under $500

, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [0]

When it comes to information security I think most of us expect that the government here in the US and governments abroad would take some significant precautions to be sure that the websites for various agencies and military branches were secure. That isn’t always the case though. Read The Full Story
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