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An inside look at a Hackathon
Some, like Lewis Lin, were veteran hackers. This was his sixth one. "I'm excited to stay up all night and not sleep and eat really poorly," she said. The hackers were immediately presented with their problem: build Seattle's news home page. …
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Top 10 hacking scandals of 2011
As more and more celebrities join the social networking bandwagon, they also become increasingly vulnerable to hacking. From heads of states to Hollywood celebrities, this year saw a series of hacking incidents involving high-profile victims. …
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Hackers intercept iPhone crash reports
Apple Inc.'s crash report mechanism may take center stage in the latest cat-and-mouse game between the tech giant and hackers trying to jailbreak its iPhones. While a hacker group admitted Apple's latest iOS 5 operating system is tough to crack, …
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Midday update: Hackers steal details from US spy firm
Private global intelligence agency Stratfor is red-faced after hackers got behind its firewall and gained access to the credit card details and names of thousands of paying subscribers. Stratfor charges for analysis by its group of US-centric global …
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Hackers Abuse PHP Setting to Inject Malicious Code Into Websites
"We only got access to a few dozen servers with this type of malware, but doing our crawling we identified a few thousand sites with a similar malware, so we assume they are all hacked the same way," Dede said. Even though Sucuri only inspected VPS and …
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Hacker Group "Anonymous" Threatens to Take Down Iowa Caucuses
The secretive hacker group Anonymous, for instance, has already vowed to disrupt the January 3 vote in the Iowa caucuses, which Paul seems poised to win. Though Paul was initially almost wholly ignored by most politicians and the mainstream media, …
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Hacktivism Spreads to China? Mengniu Hacked in Protest of 2nd Milk Scandal
Will we see hackers become sympathetic to uprisings like the one we saw in Wukan, and engage in activities with a more political slant? I'm just pondering out loud here, but it certainly an interesting possibility to consider. …
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Newt Gingrich heckled by Occupy Des Moines protesters; newtgingrich.com …
Gingrich received more bad news as hackers appeared to have taken over his website, newtgingrich.com. Users on Wednesday afternoon were taken instead to the homepages of Freddie Mac, Tiffany and Co., and a Greece travel website. …
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Piers Pressure: UK Hacking Inquiry Raises Fresh Questions for CNN's Morgan
Yet this is no restoration comedy, but the real-life drama of the Leveson Inquiry, launched in the aftermath of the 2011 phone hacking scandal that shuttered Rupert Murdoch's Sunday tabloid News of the World and shattered the British public's vestigial …
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Hidden Dragon: The Chinese cyber menace
By John Leyden • Get more from this author Analysis Cybercrooks and patriotic state-backed hackers in China are collaborating to create an even more potent security threat, according to researchers. Profit-motivated crooks are trading compromised …
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Hacktivists: Doin' It For the Lulz Since 1903
Or they say they're doing it just for the lulz: Some hackers take over sites, swipe users' information, and then post their exploits online just to make the point that hey, you losers aren't as safe as you thought you were. Better fix that gaping hole …
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China-Based Hacking of 760 Companies Shows Cyber Cold War

China-Based Hacking of 760 Companies Shows Cyber Cold War
14 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. and Intel Corp. were logical targets for China-based hackers, given the solid-gold intellectual property data stored in their computers. An attack by cyber spies on iBahn, a provider of Internet services to hotels, …
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Chinese gaming sites hacked: Millions of users affected
By Hana Stewart-Smith | December 23, 2011, 7:52am PST Summary: The accounts of millions of Chinese web users have been compromised in a series of hacking attacks on several gaming websites, with account information leaking online. …
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Feds involved in Manning prosecution enter hackers' crosshairs

Feds involved in Manning prosecution enter hackers' crosshairs
By Aliya Sternstein 12/20/2011 A government-hired forensics specialist and an Army investigating officer could face online backlash from WikiLeaks supporters who are unhappy with this week's prosecution of a US soldier accused of releasing confidential …
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How Iran hacked super-secret CIA stealth drone
More damage is being dished out to the US intelligence community as sources in Iran admit to hacking the CIA's lost drone and bringing it down with not much more than computer navigating know-how. Engineers with the Iranian military are admitting to …
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Peter Hain warned computer may have been hacked by private detectives

Peter Hain warned computer may have been hacked by private detectives
The former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has been told by the Metropolitan police that they are investigating evidence that his computer, and those of senior Northern Ireland civil servants and intelligence agents, may have been hacked by …
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Hackers attack US analytical group web site
The Anonymus hacker group attacked the web site of the US Stratfor analytical group, which is believed to be a 'CIA undercover'. Hackers stole the list of the group`s clients, their credit card numbers and e-mail correspondence. …
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Hacker Installs Ice Cream Sandwich on Kindle Fire
A hacker named Steven has posted a video of Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Kindle Fire, along with more information in the XDA Developers forums. The hack is incomplete, lacking support for audio, Wi-Fi, the accelerometer and the light sensor. …
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Apple Gives Siri Hackers a Break
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Dec 16, 2011 6:40 AM Things just got a little bit easier and possibly closer to legal for hackers trying to bring Apple's digital personal assistant Siri to iOS devices other than the iPhone 4S, according to a prominent iOS hacker. …
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Anonymous Hackers Publish Info on U.S. Senators

Anonymous Hackers Publish Info on U.S. Senators
The hackers leaked personal information on Senators who had voted for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Members of Anonymous recently leaked personal information on US Senators who had voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization …
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China Hackers Breached U.S. Chamber, Google Clean Energy Investment Nears $1 …

China Hackers Breached U.S. Chamber, Google Clean Energy Investment Nears …
BY Nidhi Subbaraman Today Amazon Polishes Up Its iPad Kindle App. While its Fire tablet is selling well, Amazon is clearly taking no chances with its app on the most popular tablet–the iPad: The firm has just added a slew of new features and fixes to …
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Square Enix to Reopen Hacked Site, Says No Private Data Lost
By Jay Alabaster, IDG News Japanese game developer Square Enix said Monday that no private data was stolen when a server for a fan site was hacked last week, and it plans to reopen the site to users by the end of the year. The company shut down the …
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