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40 min ago | Cult of Mac Blog

Apple Under Fire As Hackers Steal Money From iTunes Accounts?

Hackers have once again turned to cracking iTunes accounts to obtain a ton of content paid content and leave you with the bill.

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, iPod, Science / Technology, Towson, MD

5 hrs ago | Patch.com

Boston Police Respond to Hackers with Satirical YouTube Video

With rapper KRS-One's now all-too-familiar "Sound of Da Police" music video intermittently popping up, Boston Police officers satirically discuss the "emotional trauma" they felt after the police department's website, BPDNews.com , was hacked last Friday , in a light-hearted, video comeback of sorts at the hacking group "Anonymous." "Normally, I ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Social Software

9 hrs ago | ComputerWorld

Foxconn said to have been hacked by group critical of working conditions

Hackers claimed to have stolen internal data from Apple supplier Foxconn, and leaked the information online, in response to media reports of poor working conditions at the electronics manufacturer's factories in China.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPod touch App, iPhone App

13 hrs ago | Hackinthebox.org

DDoS the Weapon of Choice for Hackers Driven by Politics, Not Profits

Don't miss our 3rd annual HITB Security Conference in Europe featuring keynote speakers Bruce Schneier and Andy Ellis ! Politics, rather than good old-fashioned theft, is increasingly the motivation of malicious hackers who attack websites using DDoS techniques.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Arbor Networks, Software

Wed Feb 08, 2012

Boston.com

Summary Box: 9 phone hacking lawsuits settled

NEW SETTLEMENTS: Nine more phone hacking lawsuits against Rupert Murdoch's News International have been settled, including a case brought by comedian Steve Coogan.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

The Age

Hackers expose sinister tactics used by pro-Kremlin group

MOSCOW: A pro-Kremlin youth group runs a network of internet trolls, seeks to buy flattering coverage of Vladimir Putin and hatches plans to discredit opposition activists and media, according to private emails allegedly hacked by a group calling itself the Russian arm of Anonymous.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Vladimir Putin, Nash, OK

LA Daily News

Romanian charged with hacking into NASA computers at JPL

A Romanian citizen faces federal charges for allegedly hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena in an attack that caused more than $500,000 in damage, prosecutors said today.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Prison, Space

IcWalsall

Gazza's phone-hacking 'distress'

Ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne suffered "mental harm and distress" after his phone messages were hacked by the News of the World, the High Court has been told.

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Salisbury Journal

Hacker 'in terror' over extradition

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is "unable to control the terror that consumes his every waking moment" as he fights extradition to the US, his mother said.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Computers, UFO and Alien

WOI

Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info

Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Ranson, WV, Clarksburg, WV, Charleston, WV

Daily Mail

Apple iTunes accounts raided by hackers stealing money from store credit and gift cards

Users have claimed on customer forums that their iTunes store credit or gift cards have been spend using their PayPal accounts fraudulently by others.

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Related Topix: iPod, Science / Technology

Tue Feb 07, 2012

The Sydney Morning Herald

Flaw in home security cameras exposes live feeds to hackers

After the flaw was discovered user "Gl0we" on the social news website Reddit posted this image, claiming it took less that 2 minutes to create from cameras they had found to be exposed.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Science / Technology, Torrance, CA

CIO

Hacktivism Trumps Money As Motivation for Denial of Service Attacks

PC World - Hacktivism has replaced financial gain as the prime motivator for disrupting a website's operation with traffic with a Distributed Denial of Service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks, a network security company in Chelmsford, Mass.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Arbor Networks, Software, Chelmsford, MA

The Guardian

Times editor apologises to high court judge for not disclosing email hacking

James Harding, editor of the Times, at court in London where he was giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry.

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Related Topix: Getty Images, Science / Technology, Blog News, Journalism

NBC Dallas

Dallas Police Department's Website Hacked

Hackers broke into the Dallas Police Department's website over the weekend and stole sensitive information -- including the usernames and passwords of some officers.

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Free Republic

Did Chinese Espionage Lead to F-35 Delays?

Did Chinese cyber spying cause the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's cost spikes and production delays? That's the question Pentagon budget officials are asking according to Aviation Week.

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Related Topix: Aircraft, Lockheed Martin Aircraft, Military Aircraft, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Science / Technology

CNet News

Hackers wanted $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private

Symantec told a hacker group that it would pay $50,000 to keep the source code for some of the its flagship security products off the Internet, the company confirmed to CNET this evening.

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Related Topix: Startups, Symantec, Science / Technology, CPU

Mon Feb 06, 2012

Hackinthebox.org

Hackers may be able to 'outwit' online banking security devices

Don't miss our 3rd annual HITB Security Conference in Europe featuring keynote speakers Bruce Schneier and Andy Ellis ! Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Speakers

Gretna Breeze

Boardrooms prey for hackers

One afternoon recently, a hacker took a tour of a dozen conference rooms around the globe via equipment that most every company has in those rooms: videoconferencing equipment.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Cameras

CIO

How to Protect Online Transactions

Network World - The trusty telephone is emerging as one of the key elements in new multifactor authentication schemes designed to protect online banking and other web-based financial transactions from rapidly evolving security threats.

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