Satellite phones are considered to be inherently secure and a safe way for people to talk without fear of someone listening in. This is the perception because the phones use encryption to encode the audio before it is transmitted ...
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Oh boy you can be that this is going to go over really well but it seems that the 'hactivist' group Anonymous has managed to intercept a private conference call between four agents of the FBI and ...
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Okay this is definitely one that I didn't see coming but according to researchers at Columbia University there is a vulnerability affecting millions of printers that could literally see them being hacked into setting themselves on fire.
Professor ...
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It never seems to fail but for some reasons companies live under some kind of illusion that in this day of network access from anywhere that just simply firing the guy that managed your networks without cleaning ...
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It would seem that following the hack attack against Sony and the Playstation Network gaming company sites have become a real juicy target for hackers.
Earlier today my colleague Daniel McCall posted about the hacking of the English game ...
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Wow, will the hacking of Sony ever stop?
One has to wonder, because every time we turn around lately some other division of Sony is getting hacked. The newest attack, against Sony Pictures, was launched by a group ...
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On Monday, 'hacktivist' group Anonymous revealed it was targeting Sony for its treatment of PS3 hacker George Hotz. Later that day, DDOS attacks on the PlayStation Network took down the gaming service temporarily. Sony has since revealed ...
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PS3 hacker George ‘Geohot’ Hotz just got himself a powerful ally in 'hacktivist' ensemble Anonymous. Hotz was the first hacker to crack security on the PlayStation 3, allowing (perfectly legal) homebrew software and (not-so-legal) pirated games ...
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George 'Geohot' Hotz is the hacker who very publicly breached the PlayStation 3's security, and is now lined up for a date with Sony's lawyers. Or, he would be ... if he wasn't currently gadding about South ...
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This is really only the start of the flood of security related issues that are going to come to haunt not just the iPhone but all smartphones.
This story of some German researchers who have successfully been able ...
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For Sony, the recent hacking of the PlayStation 3 seems to go from terrible to disastrous.
While game piracy is an obvious concern for the platform holder, a new homebrew app has been released that allows users with ...
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It's been a tough couple of weeks for the poor old PS3, what with dastardly hackers cracking the system wide open and releasing secret codes that will likely see piracy run rampant.
Having already promised network updates in ...
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Sony has a problem. Its baby, the PlayStation 3, has been hacked, and the secret codes that open the doors to modified firmware (and hence mass piracy of PS3 games) have been released. Shit's getting real, in ...
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A bunch of hackers calling themselves 'fail0verflow' claim to have unearthed the so-called 'private key' that authorizes PlayStation 3 code to run on the popular console.
fail0verflow are not the first individuals to have broken into the system, ...
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As you can see from the graphic above it takes all of 15 lines of code the get everyone clicking on links that starts an orgy of people talking about having goat sex.
Mat Howie, from Metafilter, posted ...
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Danger Will Robinson, danger...
Yup another Twitter worm is on the loose folks and apparently when you click on the link that follows WTF. When you do you will find your account suddenly twittering "I like anal sex ...
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More than three years after it first launched, Sony's PlayStation 3 has been hacked for the first time. The hacker? George Hotz, the chap who first hacked the iPhone 2G.
What does Hotz's achievement mean, in real terms? ...
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Since the news about Twitter's homepage being hacked has made the rounds of the tech blogosphere not much more has been said about it. Twitter came out with an update post that said it's DNS records had ...
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For almost as long as there has been OS wars the mantra of the penguin herders has been that the likelihood of Linux ever being vulnerable to tings like viruses and trojans was next ...
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Stolen identities are traded on the web all the time. The information can be as simple as credit card information and email address or in some case complete records. It is this type of ...
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Earlier I wrote about how the UK based Vaserv.com was hacked and had over 100,000 sites deleted from their servers. At that time I, and other tech news sites, were under the ...
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Not only is it having problems with their search but is seems that Twitter has once again been hacked if the above screen capture of Thomas Hawk’s Twitter post on Friendfeed is any example. ...
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