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08/17/10 5:00 AM PT | TechNewsWorld | 1187 Words
To illustrate just how effective the strategy is, consider the recently held, highly controversial social engineering challenge conducted at the annual DEFCON hacker convention in Las Vegas. The parameters of the challenge were as follows: Given about a half-hour of telephone...
Alternatively, a single hacker might have created Stuxnet and disclosed the .lnk vulnerability in order to show how vulnerable SCADA systems are, Abrams speculated. Finally, there's the possibility that Stuxnet was spawned in an attempt to gain corporate intelligence, Abrams said.
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08/13/10 5:00 AM PT | MacNewsWorld | 977 Words
Hacking the baseband will unlock the iPhone so it accepts SIM cards from other carriers than AT&T in the U.S. and lets the hacker make calls on other carriers' networks. This is different from jailbreaking, where hackers get into iOS and gain...
But now, any schmo capable of directing an iPhone's Web browser to a certain site can consider himself a hacker. JailbreakMe.com is the name of the place -- go there, confirm you really want to go through with it, and bam,...
06/25/10 8:50 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 1091 Words
In January, a hacker used an automated password-guessing tool to find an administrative password on the site. The password was a weak, lowercase, common dictionary word; using it, the hacker reset several passwords and posted some of them elsewhere for access by...
Scrooge allows a hacker to do a lot of things with an ATM besides just make it puke money. It also enables a thief to skim information from unsuspecting users' swipe cards.
Just to be clear, though, Jack isn't an actual...
07/29/10 1:52 PM PT | TechNewsWorld | 688 Words
Security researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrated remote hacks against two automated teller machines (ATMs) that made them spew out money at the...
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06/30/10 5:00 AM PT | TechNewsWorld | 564 Words
Personal computing altered the world forever, and now the digitization of biology is poised to bring about sweeping change. Craig Venter's...
Wolfgang Kandek at Qualys more or less agreed, citing a flaw that was discovered at the hacker contest CanSecWest a few months ago. Hackers there found a common bug in all the major browsers, and even the fastest to respond, Mozilla Firefox,...
