The bust of the AT&T hackers was a joint effort of the  U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and police in the Philippines.  The ring of four hackers seem to have a connection to a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia say the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippines police. The FBI has also uncovered a ”paper trail” [...]

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Hackers created a pirate version of PBS and planted a seed of a fake story that Tupac Shakur, an American rapper that died in 1996, was alive and well–living in New Zealand. The intrusion on PBS’s servers happened late Sunday night, and Anne Bentley, the PBS president, issued a statement very early Monday morning announcing [...]

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The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]

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TSA served a subpoena to bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott for leaking the screening guidelines. The bloggers stated that they were unaware of the identity of the source of the material–as it was sent to them anonymously. The TSA special agents seized Frischling’s laptop.

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A major attack on Twitter brought the social networking website down for about two hours on Friday night. The attackers redirected Twitter’s domains to an alternate website that displayed a graphic image of a group called the “Iranian Cyber Army.” The attackers had managed to steal the passwords of Twitter’s master domain account, which allowed [...]

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On Monday, new Canadian anti-spam and anti-spyware legislation (Electronic Commerce Protection Act) will be put to vote. The Copyright lobbies for the software and music industries have been very busy trying to make significant alterations to the bill. One area of concern for the copyright lobbies is a limitation to install DRM software on user [...]

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Hackers have exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s Office software for Windows PCs. Microsoft is actively working on patching this flaw, but has yet to release a solution. One of the methods that cybercriminals have used to attack victims was to create websites that automatically load the malicious code unto the victim’s computer. Office XP, Office [...]

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A Foxconn employee, 25 year-old Sun Danyong, allegedly committed suicide after losing an iPhone prototype. After the employee could not locate one of sixteen prototypes entrusted to his possession, a Foxconn manager ordered an immediate search and interrogation of that employee. Thursday at 3 AM, the employee jumped from his apartment window and ended his [...]

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The Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) project, created and sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, will help federal, state and local agencies better understand open source as an option for technology solutions. This project will start as a one year, 1.5 million dollar, contract and depending on the results may follow up with additional [...]

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