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Hackers Apparently Made Off With Government Data

2012-05-22T08:15:00Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One or more unauthorized users gained access to the inner workings of a website run by the U.S. Justice Department, a departmen...

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Joshua Glazer: Hackers Anonymous Declare War on Marijuana Prohibition

2012-05-21T04:57:14Z

After our exclusive Anonymous interview, other members of the hacker collective came forward to reveal more details surrounding their plan for legaliz...

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Pirate Bay Down After DDoS Attack

2012-05-16T14:20:13Z

The Pirate Bay has been down for over 24-hours as a result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to the website's Facebook accou...

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Popular Surveillance Cameras Open To Hackers

2012-05-15T08:10:33Z

In a world where security cameras are nearly as ubiquitous as light fixtures, someone is always watching you.

But the watcher might not always be w...

Alleged Anonymous Hacker Enters Plea In Court

2012-05-14T17:00:51Z

NEW YORK -- A Chicago man facing computer hacking charges in a federal investigation targeting the worldwide group Anonymous is entertaining himself b...

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Hackers Vandalize Tea Party Website

2012-05-11T17:06:22Z

Hackers managed to seize the reins of a Tea Party PAC's website this week, replacing existing material with a variety of offensive messages, before it...

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Anonymous Takes Down Site Over Support For Pirate Bay Censorship

2012-05-09T09:51:27Z

The notorious hacker group Anonymous has struck once again, and this time its victim was Virgin Media.

According to the BBC, the hackers' distribut...

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Anonymous Hacks Kremlin Website

2012-05-09T07:20:00Z

By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Hackers temporarily blocked President Vladimir Putin's web site on Wednesday, carrying...

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Quora: Is It Possible for Hackers to Access My Computer's Webcam?

2012-05-07T14:16:35Z

This question originally appeared on Quora.

By Feross Aboukhadijeh, Stanford undergraduate, computer security enthusiast, and blogger

Yes, bad guy...

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Are Porn Sites Or Religious Sites Riskier For Web Users? (The Answer Will Surprise You)

2012-05-02T15:27:56Z

The Internet, it seems, is always full of surprises.

According to a report released on April 30 by security software firm Symantec, religious and i...

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Gil Laroya: CISPA and the Emergence of a Cyber Détente

2012-04-30T17:28:52Z

With the danger posed on both sides of the cyber-hacker war, is the internet bearing witness to an internet cyber-détente?

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Meet The Man Who Started The Hacker Wars

2012-04-30T09:19:37Z

In the summer of 2007, Apple released the iPhone, in an exclusive partnership with A.T. & T. George Hotz, a seventeen-year-old from Glen Rock, New Jer...

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Taliban Website Hacked For 3rd Time In A Year

2012-04-27T02:40:00Z

By Rob Taylor KABUL, April 27 (Reuters) - Hackers have for the third time in less than a year crippled the main website of the Afghan ...

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Meet The Man Who Hacked Hollywood

2012-04-25T12:53:33Z

Chris Chaney never wanted to become famous as The Man Who Hacked Hollywood. In the beginning at least, he was just a 33-year-old loner looking for som...

WATCH: MIT Building Gets Turned Into Giant Tetris Game

2012-04-25T09:11:42Z

Hackers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brought Soviet-styled 80's fun to the Boston skyline, when they turned the facade of the school's...

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Top 9 Spam-Sending Countries

2012-04-24T23:10:21Z

Receiving spam is never fun. Not only does it clog email inboxes, but it's also an easy way for cybercriminals to plant malware on your computer or tr...

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Surprising Number Of Macs Infected With Malware

2012-04-24T11:14:29Z

Following numerous reports on Mac malware like the Flashback and Sabpab trojans, new research released by computer security firm Sophos gives Mac user...

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FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July

2012-04-20T14:12:58Z

WASHINGTON (AP) — For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summe...

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'Extremely Partisan' GOP Impeding Progress On Cybersecurity Bill, Democrat Says

2012-04-19T15:57:36Z

As the House prepares to vote next week on landmark legislation to protect the nation's computer systems, Republicans have stripped a key provision fr...

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Several Nations Reportedly Trying To Penetrate U.S. Cyber-Networks

2012-04-18T06:19:42Z

At least half a dozen countries with offensive cyber-capabilities are probing U.S. corporate and military computer systems, looking for data and a toe...

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Lawyers' New Mandate: Think Like Hackers

2012-04-17T10:28:07Z

Don’t just follow the law. Hack it.

That was Jonathan Askin’s challenge to an auditorium of law students, lawyers and entrepreneurs at the firs...

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Hacker Charged For Attacking Police Site

2012-04-16T13:56:27Z

SALT LAKE CITY — An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective "Anonymous" pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of breaching the websites of the U...

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Fake Angry Birds Strikes Android Users With Malware

2012-04-13T14:32:40Z

It's a trap!

On Thursday, Sophos reported that a malware-packed fake version of Angry Birds Space had "been placed in unofficial Android app stores...

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Adam Levin: Hacking the Federal Log Jam: One Agency at a Time

2012-04-13T10:25:24Z

Twelve weeks ago, the Economic Development Administration was the target of a sophisticated hack attack. What's shocking is not that it happened, it's that despite the return to pre-historic fax-machine technology, the EDA seems to be functioning fairly well, perhaps even better in some ways.

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Hackers Reportedly Target Anti-Terror Hotline

2012-04-12T14:52:34Z

LONDON -- London's Metropolitan Police said Thursday the force is confident its systems remain secure, despite an investigation into whether conversat...

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