Posted on February 28th, 2010 by Administration
There’s a few valuable life lessons in the following story, so pay attention: A Pittsburgh news station recently reported on a 17-year-old boy who was disqualified from a SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals tournament after it was discovered he was cheating. In retaliation, the young man hacked into the official PlayStation site, and crashed it for [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2010 by Administration
When Bunnie Huang was in South China overseeing production on his versatile ChumbyOne device, he discovered a major quality issue with Kingston’s MicroSD cards. At first, he assumed that he’d gotten a counterfeit batch, but further investigation proved them to be legit. Kingston wasn’t willing to give Bunnie any details on its QA process, so [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2009 by Administration
From the Chinese pirate masters of the non-sea-faring variety comes… Ylmf OS! Not happy with pirating Windows XP itself, these creative Chinese have gone one step further and hacked Ubuntu to look exactly like Windows XP. Why have they moved to Ubuntu? Because their previous release, a pirate version of Windows XP itself, is being [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by Administration
Craig “Lazie” Lynch vanished from Hollesley Bay Prison in Suffolk in September this year close to the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary. Instead of hiding away from police Lynch has set up a Facebook account complete with a photograph sticking his middle finger up and boasts about eating 12lb steaks and his [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Administration
More than 500 officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes to retrieve guns, drugs and millions of pounds of criminal assets. At least, that’s what was supposed to happen. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark investigate.
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 by Administration
As if Vegas casinos don’t already rake in enough money from suckers, now they are developing technology to automatically detect people who count cards.
The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual “count” of the cards, the same way a player would. It also measures how much each player is [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Administration
SAN FRANCISCO–No one is immune from cyberthreats, not even the head of the FBI.
FBI Director Robert Mueller was banned by his wife from doing online banking after he nearly fell for a phishing scam, he said on Wednesday during a talk at the Commonwealth Club of California.
He received an e-mail purporting to be from his [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Administration
The Bank of America in Tampa, Florida has a no-exceptions policy requiring a thumbprint when cashing a check. And they do mean no exceptions: the bank refused to cash a check for a man with no arms because he couldn’t provide a fingerprint.
“They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, ‘Well, obviously you [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by Administration
The Subway Yearbook project is the latest bit of fun from the joy-sharing pranksters at Improv Everywhere…
We installed a photography studio on a random subway car. We claimed that the MTA had hired us to take photos of every single person who rides the subway and that we’d be producing a yearbook at the end [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2009 by Administration
I don’t know much about Megan Fox, and I certainly have seen the Transformers movie. She may be an idiot. She may be unpleasant to work just like these guys said. However, they accused her of being unprofessional, and they did this in a letter that they posted on the company web site apparently without [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by Administration
Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who’d annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in Windows 7, courtesy the rewritten TCP/IP and SMB2 stacks.
IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT
#!/usr/bin/python
# When SMB2.0 recieve a “&” char in the “Process Id High” SMB header field [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2009 by Administration
State Rep. Michael Rodrigues, a Westport pol, was spotted over the weekend piling booze into his car – emblazoned with his “House 29″ Mass. license plate – at a tax-free N.H. liquor store.
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Posted on August 16th, 2009 by Administration
“Domain Tasters” who grab a domain name for a few days and then return it before having to pay have been thwarted by a new ICANN policy that charges for excessive returns. Monthly returned domains have dropped 99.7% from a year ago.
Domain tasters managed to make money with the practice, which essentially cost them nothing, [...]
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Posted on August 9th, 2009 by Administration
Facebook.com screenshots… the new bash.org
This is why you shouldn’t allow your boss to be your Facebook friend. [pic] (imgur.com)
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Posted on August 7th, 2009 by Administration
For day two of Black Hat, we sat in on on Joe Grand, Jacob Appelbaum, and Chris Tarnovsky’s study of the electronic parking meter industry. They decided to study parking meters because they are available everywhere, but rarely considered from a security perspective.
They focused on the San Francisco’s MTA implementation of electronic smart card meters. [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by Administration
Lockpicking legends Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis and Matt Fiddler demo’ed a series of ingenious hacks for opening “unpickable” locks at Defcon last weekend. Included is a hack that opens the expensive electronic/mechanical CLIQ lock, which requires an electronic handshake between the key and the lock, and which logs every open/shut event) by simply vibrating [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2009 by Administration
A former British fraud cop has assembled a database of 4,000,000 British identities, including credit card numbers and PINs, seemingly by buying data from hackers and phishers. Now he’s selling access to the database to panicked members of the public who want to know if their identities have been stolen.
Highly sensitive financial information, including credit [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Administration
On Thursday, two researchers plan to reveal an unpatched iPhone bug that could virally infect phones via SMS.
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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Administration
The Pwnie Awards are an annual event at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. They award the Golden Pwnie in a variety of categories: mass 0wnage, most innovative research, most overhyped bug, most epic FAIL, and our favorite: Best Song. Embedded above is [Paco Hope]’s 50 Ways to Inject Your SQL. While a [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2009 by Administration
Looks like someone should start putting up fake all-night events at random addresses in that town…
“Alright boys, there’s obviously forty-six raves going on all over town tonight. GEAR UP!”
Riot police raided a 30th birthday barbecue because they thought the organizer, who had invited his friends via Facebook, was staging a rave.
Four police cars, a riot [...]
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