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FBI: Major cyber attacks in the rise

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 on...
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The MacGyver crack

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 th...
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11-year-old hacks iPhone

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 dan...