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“hacking”

Jul
30
2010

Black Hat: ATMs are not well protected

ATMs hack is possible. At the Black Hat conference, Barnaby Jack, the security researcher, also director of research at IOActive Labs has highlighted vulnerabilities in software and physical equipment. The expert, who has spent several years in hacking ATM, presented two different methods to attack a Windows CE distributor: first, physical, using a master key [...]

Jul
5
2010

iTunes accounts hacked

Panic at Apple! Suspicious activities have been noticed. Suddenly, there are several users who have had their account hacked. An unknown number of Apple ID has apparently been hacked this week, and is used to buy hundreds of dollars worth of applications in the App Store. It is not yet clear but the problem seems [...]

May
10
2010

New anti-piracy for Nintendo 3DS

The head of Nintendo said, without revealing much details that an enhanced copy protection system in its upcoming handheld 3D to be presented in June at E3. Nintendo has decided to resume the fight against piracy of its games. “We fear a form of thinking more and more common that paying for software is unnecessary [...]

Apr
10
2010

iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak: Just after few hours of its launch

Interestingly, jailbreak iPhone OS 4.0 was carried out just hours after Apple introduced the beta version of the operating system developer community and a file called iPhone2, 1_4.0_8A230m_Restore.ipsw appeared on torrent trackers. Looks like former glory Apple software as sustainable to burglary and intrusion detection and receding into the past. We have already reported the [...]

Mar
10
2010

Microsoft reported susceptibility to attack in Internet Explorer

This time, it is IE 6 and IE 7 which are concerned. The U.S. company warned that hackers could take control of computers remotely. Microsoft has warned, Tuesday, March 10, as hackers took advantage of a flaw, newly discovered, in versions IE 6 and IE 7 browser Internet Explorer. Hackers could then take control of [...]

Mar
9
2010

Intel investigation into the sale of fake processors Core i7

Many clients have reported that they had the bad surprise to receive a crude imitation of the Intel Core i7 they had ordered to Newegg. Intel has acknowledged that at least one false Intel Core i7 circulated in the U.S. market and launched an investigation into the matter. The case began Friday, March 5 when [...]

Oct
6
2009

Leaked password scam @ Hotmail+Gmail+yahoo and othersl

Massive phishing scam of 10,000 hotmail users is now considered to be double in scale and widely spread even to other accounts like Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and many more. The recent updates from BBC reports that “they have seen a list of over 20,000 more names and passwords posted on the same website, containing email [...]