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PSA: McAfee computer security patches flaw: are you fixed?

, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Earlier this week, the McAfee group began sending out a fix to stopper up a flaw which turned their protection service into a hijacked spam festival. The flaw, they say, was allowing hackers to attach themselves to your computer specifically and shoot spam throughout your machine - hijacking that which was supposed to be protected using a flaw in the system that was supposed to be doing the protecting. The exploit was reported earlier this week by two customers who were taken aback by the flaw earlier this week, McAfee responding with a fix now here at the end of it. Read The Full Story

SOPA and PIPA delayed indefinitely, Internet Wins

, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [2]

In what can only be described as seeming to be a Flawless Victory, not a few hours after Senator Harry Reid announced he’d be delaying the vote on PIPA, representative Lamar Smith, better known now as the sponsor of SOPA, has announced he would delay consideration on that bill as well. Both teams have been pressured by waves of not only internet-based groups during the blackout of major websites earlier this week, but by voters calling in from around the nation this week as a result of it. Both groups have noted their intent to “revisit” how to defeat “foreign thieves” in regards to piracy, but would be stopping votes on their legislature for now.

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Anonymous take down Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [67]

Earlier today the sites Megaupload and Megavideo were shut down by ICE, a federal group responsible for working with and shutting down groups that pirate media illegally – in retaliation the hacker collective known as Anonymous have shut down the RIAA, the MPAA, Universal Music, and the United States Government site Justice.org, belonging to the Department of Justice. These hits have been confirmed by several anonymously run “official” Anonymous sources such as twitter accounts @Anonops, @AnonymousIRC, and @YourAnonNews, and were likely planned in advance. As a bit of an extra jab after the biggest sites in this situation were downed, Anonymous noted that they should simply say, “for #SOPA supporters their#SOPAblackout is today.”

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Siri on iPod Touch with simple iPhone 4S restore

, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [2]

It's not even a trick, it would seem, nor is it a hack or a break of any kind, but certainly not something Apple would have you doing - a restore of an iPhone 4S built on an iPod Touch is what mister AppleGordon has done, and with it came Siri! Before you get your fingers twisted in a bundle trying this little oddity out, note this: it's only one man's word against all sensical notions that such a thing will, almost certainly, brick your device. In other words, don't try this at home, but DO giggle at the concept. Read The Full Story

Hackers steal $6.7M in cyber bank robbery

, Jan 18th 2012 Discuss [3]

Most of the hackers we talk about here are out to steal credit card numbers and harass. Some of the hacks result in illicit gains, but few that we have talked about have been able to pull the massive amount of funds that hackers who hit the South African Postbank have grabbed. These hackers were able to steal $6.7 million from the bank. Read The Full Story

Hacker oxOmar and pals hit Tel Aviv stock exchange and El Al airline

, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Hacking has been growing at a rapid pace over the last year and while many of the big attacks have come in the US and Europe, those countries are not alone in facing the hacker threat. The Middle East has become a big target for hackers. A hacker going by oxOmar hacked into a credit card database and posted the details on 20,000 credit cards of Israeli citizens not long ago. Read The Full Story

Israel promises retaliation against hacker that leaked credit card details

, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [3]

Recently a hacker targeted Israelis in an attack that resulted in 6,000 valid credit cards for Israeli citizens being stolen. The stolen card details were later published online by the hacker, who calls himself OxOmar. Israel has vowed to retaliate against the hacker and has said that it will treat the hack and leak of the card details just as it would other terrorist acts. Read The Full Story

Hackers may have compromised source information of RIM, Nokia, & Apple

, Jan 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

A document was found from a hacking group known as 'The Lords of Dharmaraja' that could compromise important information of RINOA SUR(RIM, NOKIA, and Apple). An image of the document describes RINOA SUR had provided the Indian military with source code information of many software companies. And apparently, RINOA was providing backdoor access for the ability to operate within India. Read The Full Story

Android hacker Koush makes mobile internet tethering undetectable by carriers

, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [18]

When the idea that your smartphone's data connection would be able to be shared by your laptop with no additional charge, everyone seemed to be on board - over the past year, carriers have started up extra costs for this and have struck down all attempts by apps to sidestep the process - until now. What one of the most well-known hacker/developers in the world Koushik Dutta, aka Koush, has done is to create a non-market app that allows you to use your smartphone as an internet hotspot, doing so without adding costs to you beyond what that data would cost to you on your smartphone on its own. And it's completely (nearly) undetectable by carriers. Read The Full Story

High-end peer-to-peer car rental service HiGear shuts down after thefts

, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

I have never thought that renting your own car out via a service that rents to those looking to borrow for a day or more was a good idea. It seems to me that proving whoever rented your ride broke something or burned up a $1,500 set of tires would be next to impossible. The other thing I wondered about was theft. It seems that the peer-to-peer car rental service HiGear found out the problems first hand. Read The Full Story

Windows emergency update live today: are you patched?

, Dec 30th 2011 Discuss [3]

There comes a time in every operating system's life when it needs to have an emergency patch slapped over a security hold in its guts, and for Windows, that time is today - and it's an emergency. What you're going to see here is a bulletin by the name of MS11-100 that acts as a sort of public service announcement as Microsoft wants you to update your system several weeks before the regularly scheduled "Patch Tuesday" in mid-January. What this patch does is to cut off access to a security hole that'd allow hackers to launch a DoS attack against people with Microsoft's ASP .NET application framework in place. Read The Full Story

Android 4.0 ICS hacks forge forward with CyanogenMod’s “Trebuchet”

, Dec 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Even though the bulk of the population out here in Android Land aren't yet updated to the newest version of Google's Mobile OS, modifications on the basic user interface of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich are in full force, shown here with the CyanogenMod team's Trebuchet launcher, made to make your experience as lovely as possible. What you're seeing is a hacked version of the newest version of Android made perfect as the developer / hacker team CyanogenMod sees it. They've got their newest version, CyanogenMod 9, under development now, and inside you'll find this new look at Ice Cream Sandwich complete with improved widget resizing, auto-rotate, home screen modification, and a whole lot more! Read The Full Story
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