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Anonymous takes down CBS, Universal sites. Is Xbox next?
Jan. 22, 2012 Leave a Comment
Group reportedly retaliating for Megaupload take-down.
“Anonymous” hacker group takes down police websites, posts personal information online
Oct. 22, 2011 2 Comments
Law enforcement websites and Internet services, including those used by the Boston Police Department came under attack yesterday by members of a hacker group called Anonymous. In a statement released by the group taking credit for the hack, the group claims “solidarity with occupation movement and anti-police brutality protesters.” “In solidarity with the Occupation Movement [...]
InMotion Hosting apologizes, says it “understands” method used by TiGER-M@TE
Sept. 26, 2011 12 Comments
Attack may have hit more than 500,000 sites
InMotion Hosting servers hacked by TiGER-M@TE — Blast affected
Sept. 25, 2011 26 Comments
The hacker strikes
Reddit co-founder arrested for hacking MIT computers for scientific papers
July 19, 2011 1 Comment
A Cambridge man was charged today with computer intrusion, fraud and data theft after he allegedly hacked into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s network to access protected JSTOR files. Aaron Swartz, 24, was a fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, according to the Boston Globe, and could have accessed JSTOR legally [...]
Capcom Europe boss: PSN card sales rise as hack fears linger
July 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Users are reportedly unsure about using their credit cards on hacked service.
It never ends. Now Sega has been hacked
June 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Company says no personal information was taken.
Square Enix has been hacked
May 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
Hackers target multiple product sites including those for Dues Ex.
New York state subpoenas Sony over PSN breach
May 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
State Attorney General looking into what Sony told consumers following breach.
Worried about how Kinect can be used for shooters? Watch this video
Jan. 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
Gamer hacks Kinect to play Call of Duty 4.
Our favorite Kinect hacks
Dec. 14, 2010 2 Comments
From real world uses to light sabers, Microsoft’s Kinect is opening up a world of possibilities for indie developers.
FBI: Former Plymouth inmate peads guilty to hacking prison computers
Sept. 17, 2009 3 Comments
Ex-jailbird going back to prison
US intelligence single out China, Russia as potential ‘cyberspace’ threats
Sept. 15, 2009 Leave a Comment
Countries placed on list with Iran and North Korea
FBI: Major cyber attacks in the rise
Oct. 17, 2008 Leave a Comment
The bad guys are going virtual more and more, and American businesses and government networks are getting victimized at a record pace, according to an FBI report. “The increasing number of such crimes not only impacts the economy but threatens national security,” the FBI said Friday. The man at the head of the opposition is [...]
Sony confirms PlayStation Network security breach
March 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
Sony confirmed today via the official PlayStation website that somene may have used a PC to access and expose user data on the popular Playstation Network online system. In a web posting, Sony warns that some users could be victimized, their personal infomration viewed and games and downloads charged to their credit cards. “We have [...]
The MacGyver crack
Feb. 22, 2008 Leave a Comment
Take a seven dollar can of compressed air from any office supply store. Flip it over, and spray its liquid nitrogen on a computer’s DRAM, or digital random access memory. Reboot the computer, or even extract the DRAM chip and clone it, then run a few relatively simple programs. Nothing that would defeat an intermediate [...]
11-year-old hacks iPhone
Jan. 9, 2008 3 Comments
What appeared to be a legitimate iPhone application, “iPhone firmware 1.1.3 prep,” turned out to be a piece of malicious software intended to ruin functionality on affected phones. The programmer of this dangerous piece of code was an eleven-year-old boy. Using the installer.app feature on the iPhone, users can access the diverse world of third-party [...]
