Much of the talk about Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that manufacturer the iPad and iPhone for Apple, these past couple of weeks has been in relation to the ongoing concern over its treatment of its employees however ...
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VeriSign Inc. is responsible for the integrity of web addresses ending in .com, .net and .gov, directing traffic for half the world's internet users and on Thursday it revealed that company systems were hacked towards the end ...
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Anonymous, a hacker group that's gained quite the buzz and reputation lately, denied that they will be taking down Facebook this weekend on January 28th. Rumors have been spiraling all over the Internet after a video surfaced ...
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Online hacktivist group Anonymous has begun hacking and taking down various US and Industry websites after popular file hosting site Megauploaded was shut down on Thursday by U.S. officials.
In the groups Twitter messages they touted the ability ...
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Previously we mentioned hackers targeting a South African bank and it looks like this time, hackers went after a United Arab Emirates bank and Arab Bank. While no money was stolen in this case or user accounts ...
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Hackers continue to plug away and a recent case didn't involve worms or compromising customer data, but stealing cold hard cash. A group of hackers over a three day period, managed to get away with $6.7 Million ...
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Israel is taking hacking quite seriously after a hacker with the name "OxOmar", said he had posted 11,000 credit card details online Thursday. This was also behind him saying that "greatest Saudi Arabian hacker team" posted details of a ...
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In an effort to squash bugs and stomp out security exploits, Facebook has begun handing out Visa debit cards to white hat hackers--or "security researchers"--for any bugs and/or exploits they're able to find.
Researchers can receive a "White ...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is reporting an interesting proposal being floated around by the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Hackers attending the conference want to create a private Internet by putting their own network of communications satellites ...
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Mobile experts from Security Research Labs warned on Sunday that a vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology can be exploited by hackers to take control of your smartphone and use it to send text messages and ...
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Tis the season to be Jolly, but not according to the "Anonymous" hacking group. They recently claimed to have hijacked 200GB of data from US Security Think Tank Stratfor Global Intelligence. The group claims to have stolen ...
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A report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released today says that on two separate occasions, hackers managed to take over U.S. satellites in 2008.
The first satellite hacking listed in the report was of NASA's ...
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Duqu is one of the most intricate, mysterious viruses to be released in several years, matched only in complexity by its predecessor, Stuxnet, but there's apparently a lighter side to the virus hidden away in the code.
When ...
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The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, recently announced plans to boost cybersecurity spending by up to 50% over the next five years.
At least some of that extra cash will be devoted to boosting ...
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Never mind Facebook.
Forget about Westboro Baptists.
They're are all minor little irritants that hacker group anonymous takes on when they are bored and need to have a little bit of fun. However when anonymous gets serious they sure ...
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Banks are having such a rough time these days. If it isn't customers getting pissed off over being charged to use their bank debit cards it's those nasty hackers breaking into their computer systems and making off ...
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Just how secure is our data?
Just how secure are all those databases that our information is stored in?
Security companies would have us believe that biometrics are the best way to secure our data and to verify that ...
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Somehow I am not the least bit surprised by this little tidbit of news but it seems that according to a recent report from Commtouch finds that only bout a third of users even notice if their ...
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FBI officials have arrested one suspect in the celebrity hacking ring which has placed naked pictures of actresses online for the world to see.
The arrest comes several weeks after the phone of Scarlett Johansson was hacked and ...
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Sony chief security officer Philip Reitinger warned Sony Entertainment Online customers and PlayStation Network users on Tuesday night that their accounts may have been compromised after a hack led to 93,000 accounts being compromised.
Sony announced that all 93,000 ...
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It was only a matter of time before members of the various active hacking groups were brought to justice and in a major take down the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that they have arrested ...
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Last week a group of hackers made their way into the systems of the Washington Post, stealing 1.2 million email addresses, most from site visitors who entered their personal information into the company's "Jobs" section.
At this time ...
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