Two men have been charged in connection with a hack on the AT&T Website last June that exposed more than 100,000 e-mail addresses belonging to owners of the Apple iPad 3G. – Two men believed to be at the center of the theft of e-mail addresses from AT amp;T last year are now facing criminal charges.
Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, and 25-year-old Andrew Auernheimer of Fayetteville, Ark., were taken into custody by the FBI Jan. 18 in connection with the theft of …
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A recap of the past week in IT security news features Microsoft patches, a hack of Gawker Media and allegations against the FBI. – It was a busy week in IT security, starting with news that Gawker Media had been compromised.
The hack on Gawker Media’s servers exposed e-mail
addresses and passwords belonging to users of Gawker Media Websites,
including Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Deadspin, and obviously Gawker.com
itself. The incid…
According to reports, the FBI has opened an investigation into the hack that compromised Gawker Media’s Websites. – The FBI is looking into the recent hack of Gawker Media
that exposed password information and e-mail addresses belonging
to users, according to reports.
A group known as quot;Gnosis quot; has taken credit for the attack, and put
the data it swiped into a file that was initially available via …
A mass compromise affecting users of Gawker Media’s Websites has spilled over onto Twitter, sparking a spam campaign. – Gawker Media’s servers were hit by hackers during the weekend,
exposing the e-mail addresses and passwords of registered users of their
Websites and apparently leading to a spam campaign launched on Twitter.
A group called quot;Gnosis quot; has taken credit for the attack and put
the comprom…
Wikileaks gave the New York Times a diplomatic cable that shows the Chinese government was responsible for the hack on Google’s Gmail system. – China’s government was indeed behind the hack on Google’s
Gmail system earlier this year, according to a cable captured by the
controversial Wikileaks organization.
Wikileaks, which butters its bread collecting secret
documents and seeding them in media outlets, snagged 250,000 American
diploma…
Symantec has fixed a number of security holes in the Website for its "Hack is Wack" contest. – Symantec has cleaned up vulnerabilities in the Website for its quot;Hack
is Wack quot; contest.
The contest is a partnership between
the security vendor and rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg to promote computer
security and Symantec’s Norton products. Aspiring rappers are asked to post a
rap video ab…
UPDATE: A team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to crack quantum cryptography using bright light. – A team of researchers has uncovered a new way to crack the security of quantum cryptography.
The researchers hailed from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway as well as the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. Their fi…
Logitech has unveiled a couple new Ultimate Ears headsets that will work with the iPhone for making and receiving calls. The headsets are the Ultimate Ears 500vi and 200vi with a mic and inline volume controls costing $79.99 and $39.99 respectively. If your iTunes account is linked to your PayPal account, you had better check [...]
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in YouTube was used by attackers over the weekend to target fans of singer Justin Bieber. Using the vulnerability, attackers were able to embed HTML code on pages devoted to the pop star. – Hackers exploited a cross-site
scripting vulnerability on video sharing site YouTube during the holiday
weekend, targeting fans of singer Justin Bieber.
Using the
vulnerability, the attackers were able to insert HTML code into YouTube
pages devoted to Bieber and greet fans with redirects to adu…
iPhone users will want to check their accounts after a scam surfaced where accounts on iTunes were hacked and bogus charges were made for books. Some users report $1400 in charges for bogus books.
Sister site SlashGear has a column where the case for the EVO 4G versus iPhone 4 is made. If you are trying [...]
A new report from AdMob has been issued that shows the iPhone and Android are dominating the mobile web. The iPhone now serves 50% of all requests to the mobile web.
Yahoo has launched two new apps for the iPhone this week. The apps include one for finding restaurants that lets you draw a circle on [...]
Chinese hackers have tried to penetrate computers in the offices of National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan, a British paper Monday quoted him as saying.
Narayanan said his office and other government departments were targeted Dec 15, the same date that US defence, finance and technology companies, including Google, reported cyber attacks from China.
“This was not the [...]
The Chinese managed to hack Google accounts of human activists and many businesses thanks to flaws in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser, according to reports Friday.
Google has threatened to close its operations and offices in China after hacking and “phishing” attempts to break into gmail accounts of US, China and Europe based Chinese human rights [...]
Google’s threat to exit China in the wake of security attacks on Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists has roiled the high-tech sector, also has the company defending the cloud computing model it lovingly nurtures. David Girouard, president of Google’s Enterprise group, defended the cloud in a blog post. Meanwhile, while financial analysts say Google banks about $300 million to its top-line from business in China, or roughly 1 percent of its revenues, exiting China could have severe consequences for Google’s future business plans.
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Google’s threat to exit China in the wake of security attacks on Gmail accounts
of Chinese dissidents and human rights activists has roiled the high-tech
sector, recalling arguments against the cloud computing model Google famously
employs to provide Web services.
Google Chief L…
The Pentagon admits that militants have hacked Predator drone feeds with widely available software that costs less than $30. However, U.S. military officials insist, there is no proof that the hackers have been able to alter the flights of the drones or otherwise disrupt the drone missions. The Pentagon says the feeds are now encrypted.
– Iraqi militants have used inexpensive, off-the-rack software quot;to
intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, quot; the Wall Street
Journal reported Dec. 17. While the Pentagon confirms the hacking of the drone
feeds which are unencrypted military officials claim there is no proof t…
A hacker recently demonstrated how a SQL injection vulnerability in a Symantec Website could be exploited to reveal user data. Symantec says the vulnerability ony impacts customers in Japan and South Korea.
– A Website operated by security firm Symantec was hacked – giving an attacker a sneak peak at sensitive customer data.
The Romanian hacker known as Unu, who earlier this year uncovered a hole in a Website run by Kaspersky Lab, exploited a blind SQL injection problem to get his hands on clear-text pa…
Microsoft posts a response to information drifting around the Internet that Windows 7, its new operating system, can be installed using an upgrade disk on a blank hard drive. Such an installation would violate Microsoft’s End User License Agreement, and Microsoft insists that this is illegal. The large number of full Windows licenses already in circulation may prevent this so-called hack from becoming a huge issue.
– In response to news that the Windows 7 upgrade disk can be used to install
the entire operating system on a blank hard drive, Microsoft
issued a firm message: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Microsoft, of course, would like the community to follow its EULA (End User
License Agree…
Emergent Retail unveiled a slick 4-in-1 charger today for the iPhone that will charge the device from USB, DC, or AC sources and acts as a sync cable for your computer. That means one cable will keep you going anywhere and the device has two additional USB ports too.
That band of merry iPhone hackers known [...]
