As the world waits with bated breath to see if Pyongyang will make good on its nuclear threats, the hacker collective Anonymous has made its own move in the increasingly cyber conflict between North Korea and the world. Original post on readwrite.com Comments on reddit.com
PANAMA CITY — A student who allegedly hacked into the wireless Internet network at Florida State University Panama City and redirected users to a porn site is facing felony charges. Original post on newsherald.com Comments on reddit.com
Teach Siri some new tricks with SiriProxy and the Raspberry Pi. Original post on geek.com Comments on reddit.com
Commentary – Updated | The hacking collective known as Anonymous renewed their war on the Westboro Baptist Church today. After the haters from the infamous Original post on inquisitr.com Comments on reddit.com
Chad Ruble’s mother can’t use keyboards. So he used a Kinect and some open-source code to devise a system that lets her wave her hand to select emoticons and function buttons. Read this blog post by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore on Crave. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
Hackers are often touted as being both smarter and faster than the average white hat, and Google isn’t afraid to admit this. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
This spring nearly all popular BitTorrent sites were blocked by Indian ISPs following a court order. The blockades were eventually lifted, but the many Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on digg.com
Daily Yomiuri News Site Original post on yomiuri.co.jp Comments on reddit.com
There are a lot of cool things you can do with $1,000, but scientists at an Austin, Texas college have come across one that is often overlooked: for less than a grand, how’d you like to hijack a drone? Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
A number of government websites replaced with messages on how to circumvent internet restrictions. Original post on aljazeera.com Comments on reddit.com
Google is offering $1 million worth of cash prizes for Chrome Hacks at next week’s Pwn2Own contest. Original post on pcmag.com Comments on digg.com
If there is one war that Greece could not afford to join, that is with the global computer hacking collective known as Anonymous. Yet as of minutes ago, that is precisley what happened, after Anonymous, as part of what it now calls Operation Greece, took down the Greek Ministry of Justice (http://www.ministryofjustice.gr/). Original post on zerohedge.com Comments on digg.com
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Almost like an echo from retired hackers, those from the 90s who long ago faded into the ether, the motto for 2011 may have been along the lines of ” hack the planet.” Yet there are some who obviously learned nothing about the consequences of maintaining sloppy security in 2011. In the cyber world, 2012 was not greeted by the boom of fireworks but by a double wham bam to law enforcement in California and New York. As the Office of Inadequate Security pointed out, “Members of the #Anonymous #AntiSec collective welcomed 2012 by dumping data from law enforcement-related organizations on both coasts.” A portion of the defacement can be seen on Kevin Townsend’s site. As part of “pr0j3ct m4hy3m,” AntiSec hackers “defaced and destroyed” the official site for the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (cslea.com). CSLEA is still not only down, but the sites hosted by CSLEA have been… More
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