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20 August, 2008

Laptop City Hall: Update on hacking attempts at city Web site – The Capital Times

Laptop City Hall: Update on hacking attempts at city Web site
The Capital Times, WI - 1 hour ago
The city's news release (including a full list of which pages are down) about the hacking called it an SQL injection attack, prompting my natural reaction

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Crims steal card info at 15 Louisiana restaurants – ITProPortal

Crims steal card info at 15 Louisiana restaurants
ITProPortal, UK - 39 minutes ago
The hacking scam is reported to have cost the banks around a million dollars, with the restaurants hit being none the wiser as to how it was done.

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Virtual Licensing Shifts – Redmondmag.com

Virtual Licensing Shifts
Redmondmag.com, CA - 1 hour ago
And readers share their thoughts on George Ledin, a professor who teaches his students hacking techniques — and apparently gets a lot of grief for it.

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Defcon 16 — ‘Awesome!’ – p2pnet.net


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Defcon 16 — ‘Awesome!’
p2pnet.net, Canada - 1 hour ago
I’d love to be able to carry more posts on hackers (most of whom I greatly respect) and hacking (an art I greatly admire) but I don’t have the manpower or

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In the News: Hacking the T, Georgia on Their Mind and Cyberbullying – IT Security

In the News: Hacking the T, Georgia on Their Mind and Cyberbullying
IT Security, CA - 1 hour ago
Ironically, court documents that argued for suppression of the DEFCON 16 presentation pretty much put the hack on the street. See Dark Reading's article for

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ATM thieves: because that's where the money is. – Wired News

ATM thieves: because that's where the money is.
Wired News - 48 minutes ago
Readers interested in a 360-degree view of information security should take look at Johnny Long's No Tech Hacking book; a sample chapter is available (((I

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MIT Students Get Top Marks for Hacking Boston Subway – Wired News


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MIT Students Get Top Marks for Hacking Boston Subway
Wired News - 1 hour ago
of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, three MIT undergraduates concocted a scheme to hack Boston's transit payment system, the Charlie Card (no relation).
Judge Rules Against Boston Transit In MIT Student Hacking Case Wall Street Journal
Boston judge lifts MIT students' card-hacking gag order CNET News
Boston Transit hacking trio free to talk Internet News
Boston Globe - CNET News
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Be Careful if You Access Gmail Through a Public Hotspot – Mashable

Be Careful if You Access Gmail Through a Public Hotspot
Mashable, CA - 51 minutes ago
As reported by Hacking Truths, a tool has been presented at DEFCON that makes stealing session IDs from Gmail a relatively easy affair.
Optional Gmail "feature" really a bug fix The Industry Standard
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