When hackers from penetration testing firm Netragard were hired to pierce the firewall of a customer, they knew they had their work cut out. The client specifically ruled out the use of social networks, telephones, and other social-engineering vectors, and gaining unauthorized physical access to computers was also off limits.
The FBI conducted a raid last night on a data facility operated by Digital One in Reston, VA. They seized a number of servers, which then caused several websites, including those run by the New York published Curbed Network, to go offline. The reason for this raid is unknown but there are rumors that this is related to hacktivists LulzSec.
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George Hotz, the infamous iPhone hacker, and the victim of a recent Sony lawsuit, now works at Facebook. A member of the Chronic-Dev Team named Joshua Hill (P0sixninja) said this in a recent interview.
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This follows 50 days chaos during which time it took down several websites (including CIA.gov at one point), exposed passwords, exposed documents of the Arizona penal system, and at one point threatened to hit Too Big To Fail banks.
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Hacking group Lulz Security has found itself coming under attack from all angles, drawing unwanted attention from both law enforcement and other hackers groups. Though the group's antics have won it many fans who appreciate LulzSec's anti-establishment leanings, they've also earned plenty of enemies, and those enemies have started to fight back.
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Telstra Corporation Ltd has confirmed it has reached agreement with the federal government to progressively disconnect its copper network and participate in the roll out of the national broadband network (NBN).
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Al Gore is best known for having invented the Internet during the '80's (a statement which is not factually correct) but after tackling important subjects like climate change the former vice president and almost president of the United States of America is now talking about video games and about how they can create significant change in the real world.
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That’s a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development cycle.
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New Scotland Yard has confirmed that it has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks against a number of organisations.
Apple's iTunes Store is a fantastic success, with billions of songs and apps sold and, as Steve Jobs said in March, more than 200 million registered accounts.
What Jobs and Apple don't like to see publicized is the fact that hundreds, perhaps thousands of iTunes accounts have been getting hacked for the better part of a year — and that Apple doesn't seem to be able to stop it.
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A dating website that prides itself on matching only the best-looking individuals has deleted the accounts of more than 30,000 users after a computer virus accidentally allowed them to skip the site's screening process.
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The number of top-level internet domains is set to double over the next few years, after ICANN today approved the launch of a program that will let any company apply to run dot-anything.
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One thing that's been 'coming soon' for almost a year now is offline support for Google Docs and other Google services via HTML5. Lately, Google has said that it is putting the final touches and that the feature is already in testing internally. Offline support for Docs, Gmail, Calendar is coming this summer, Google has promised, and the first signs are already showing up.
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Re: Stuff I watched recently...
After watching a few episodes of "Outer Range" season 2... I'm going to binge the rest tomorrow! Can't wait!!! Good Stuff!
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