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12 June, 2012

Murdoch confidante in court over hacking scandal – Reuters


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Murdoch confidante in court over hacking scandal
Reuters
By Michael Holden | LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a trusted confidante of Rupert Murdoch and friend to a succession of British prime ministers, appears in a London court on Wednesday accused of hindering a police investigation into phone hacking
Miliband calls for new limits on UK media ownershipChicago Tribune
British Hacking Inquiry to Question Political HeavyweightsNew York Times
Gordon Brown, ex-British PM tells hacking inquiry UK press confusing fact with CBS News
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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from US intelligence firm: report – Calgary Herald


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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from US intelligence firm: report
Calgary Herald
Almost 900 federal workers and 109 Ontario government officials were affected when computers owned by Texas-based Strategic Forecasting Inc. were hacked, says the Jan. 9 Public Safety Canada memo obtained under Access to Information.
Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on StratforBloomberg

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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from US intelligence firm: report – Montreal Gazette


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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from US intelligence firm: report
Montreal Gazette
Almost 900 federal workers and 109 Ontario government officials were affected when computers owned by Texas-based Strategic Forecasting Inc. were hacked, says the Jan. 9 Public Safety Canada memo obtained under Access to Information.
Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on StratforBloomberg

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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from U.S. intelligence firm: report – Canada.com


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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from U.S. intelligence firm: report
Canada.com
Almost 900 federal workers and 109 Ontario government officials were affected when computers owned by Texas-based Strategic Forecasting Inc. were hacked, says the Jan. 9 Public Safety Canada memo obtained under Access to Information.
Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on StratforBloomberg

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Hacker Denies Stealing at Least 44000 Credit Cards – PC Magazine


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Hacker Denies Stealing at Least 44000 Credit Cards
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot A Dutch computer hacker made his first appearance Monday in US court on a 14-count indictment, after he was caught marketing stolen credit card numbers on the Internet. David Schrooten, 21, known in the online hacking community as
David Benjamin Schrooten, aka "Fortezza," Dutch hacker, pleads not guilty to CBS News
Dutch Hacker Pleads Not Guilty in Seattle CourteSecurity Planet
Police: Dutch man hacked Boeing credit unionkgw.com
College Times
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Hacking bid on EVMs in Amritsar: Cops seek software engineers’ help – Times of India

Hacking bid on EVMs in Amritsar: Cops seek software engineers' help
Times of India
AMRITSAR: The Punjab Police have sought help from software engineers to probe into the attempts made to hack the electronic voting machines from outside polling booths in Amritsar during the municipal corporation elections on June 10.

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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from US intelligence firm: memo – Canada.com


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Hacker stole data on 1000 Canadian officials from US intelligence firm: memo
Canada.com
Almost 900 federal workers and 109 Ontario government officials were affected when computers owned by Texas-based Strategic Forecasting Inc. were hacked, says the Jan. 9 Public Safety Canada memo obtained under Access to Information.
Data on Canadian Officials Stolen in Attack on StratforBloomberg

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Twitter says no accounts breached after LulzSec posts passwords – Los Angeles Times


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Twitter says no accounts breached after LulzSec posts passwords
Los Angeles Times
LulzSec Reborn, a hacker group, has claimed to have obtained the credentials of 10000 Twitter accounts after hacking a third-party app, but according to Twitter, all the accounts have remained secure. The group of hackers, which is based off the hacker
LulzSec Reborn strikes again, leaks 10000 Twitter accounts on PastebinTechSpot
LulzSec's Back From the Dead to Hack 10000 Twitter LoginsGizmodo UK

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Miliband calls for new limits on UK media ownership – Reuters


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Miliband calls for new limits on UK media ownership
Reuters
Speaking at an inquiry into a phone-hacking scandal that erupted a year ago over Murdoch's British tabloids, Labor leader Ed Miliband said the tycoon's near 40 percent share of national newspaper readership gave him too much power.
British Hacking Inquiry to Question Political HeavyweightsNew York Times
Gordon Brown, ex-British PM tells hacking inquiry UK press confusing fact with CBS News
Gordon Brown to testify at phone-hacking inquiryCNN
Hollywood Reporter -msnbc.com (blog)
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New Arms Race – Sleuth Eugene Kaspersky Stresses Rush To Protect Against … – International Business Times


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New Arms Race – Sleuth Eugene Kaspersky Stresses Rush To Protect Against
International Business Times
By Meredith Mandell: Subscribe to Meredith's RSS feed Tel Aviv — In Israel, where computer hacking has become something of a national sport and young hackers are cultivated to become members of elite army technology units, Eugene Kaspersky,

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New Arms Race: Sleuth Eugene Kaspersky Stresses Rush To Protect Against … – International Business Times


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New Arms Race: Sleuth Eugene Kaspersky Stresses Rush To Protect Against
International Business Times
By Meredith Mandell: Subscribe to Meredith's RSS feed Tel Aviv — In Israel, where computer hacking has become something of a national sport and young hackers are cultivated to become members of elite army technology units, Eugene Kaspersky,

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Cybersleuth Eugene Kaspersky, Who Identified Flame Virus, Warns Of “End Of The … – International Business Times


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Cybersleuth Eugene Kaspersky, Who Identified Flame Virus, Warns Of "End Of The
International Business Times
By Meredith Mandell: Subscribe to Meredith's RSS feed Tel Aviv — In Israel, where computer hacking has become something of a national sport and young hackers are cultivated to become members of elite army technology units, Eugene Kaspersky,

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Blizzard Readies the Banhammer for Hackers in Diablo 3 – Forbes


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Blizzard Readies the Banhammer for Hackers in Diablo 3
Forbes
Cheating and hacking are big deals for Blizzard. For one thing, it damages the basic integrity of its multiplayer-first strategy for Diablo 3. For another, hacking will amount to traditional theft once Blizzard opens its real money auction house.
Blizzard to start banning Diablo 3 cheaters/hackers/bottersUbergizmo
Diablo III takes cheaters to the cleanersSlashGear
Blizzard Bans Thousands of Diablo III Players for CheatingPC Magazine
NowGamer -Game Revolution -Ars Technica
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Student hacks friend’s email to deny him admission abroad – New York Daily News

Student hacks friend's email to deny him admission abroad
New York Daily News
(economics) passout from the Calcutta University allegedly hacked his email account and sent mails with a view to deny him an opportunity to study abroad, but landed in police net. Soumyatanu Mukherjee, 25, was arrested for hacking the email account of

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Student hacks friend’s email to deny him admission abroad – New York Daily News

Student hacks friend's email to deny him admission abroad
New York Daily News
(economics) passout from the Calcutta University allegedly hacked his email account and sent mails with a view to deny him an opportunity to study abroad, but landed in police net. Soumyatanu Mukherjee, 25, was arrested for hacking the email account of

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Student hacked friend’s email to ruin college admission – NDTV

Student hacked friend's email to ruin college admission
NDTV
(economics) passout from the Calcutta University allegedly hacked his email account and sent mails with a view to deny him an opportunity to study abroad, but landed in police net. Soumyatanu Mukherjee, 25, was arrested for hacking the email account of

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Ally McCoist ‘was victim of phone hacking’ – The Guardian

Ally McCoist 'was victim of phone hacking'
The Guardian
Ally McCoist, the beleaguered manager of Rangers football club and a former Scotland international, has been told by police he is a suspected victim of phone hacking by the News of the World. McCoist, who has so far not disclosed details of the alleged
Revealed: Rangers boss Ally McCoist had his phone hacked by the News of the WorldScottish Daily Record
McCoist Reportedly Another Suspected Victim of Phone Hackingallmediascotland.com (press release)

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Ally McCoist ‘was victim of phone hacking’ – The Guardian

Ally McCoist 'was victim of phone hacking'
The Guardian
Ally McCoist, the beleaguered manager of Rangers football club and a former Scotland international, has been told by police he is a suspected victim of phone hacking by the News of the World. McCoist, who has so far not disclosed details of the alleged
Revealed: Rangers boss Ally McCoist had his phone hacked by the News of the WorldScottish Daily Record
McCoist Reportedly Another Suspected Victim of Phone Hackingallmediascotland.com (press release)

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Hackers Targeting Traveler’s Devices – TravelersToday


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Hackers Targeting Traveler's Devices
TravelersToday
The FBI recently released a warning about hackers targeting guest's data when they log into hotel Wi-Fi overseas, but hacking can occur anywhere during travel. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint center issued the warning to US executives,

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Vice President Binay’s website hacked – Inquirer.net

Vice President Binay's website hacked
Inquirer.net
MANILA, Philippines — The website of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) was hacked late Tuesday. Identifying itself as a PrivateX, the group left a message on ovp.gov.ph, saying the proposed cyber bill could be a threat to freedom of expression.

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SpexSec hack was retaliation for ignoring security warnings, targeted FBI agent – Death and Taxes


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SpexSec hack was retaliation for ignoring security warnings, targeted FBI agent
Death and Taxes
By Carlton Purvis 1 min ago A new hacking group claims to have stolen more than 100000 records containing names, Social Security numbers, and birthdates from a Tennessee city and has leaked thousands of them online. In an exclusive hour-long interview,
Clarksville schools act after hacking reportKnoxville News Sentinel
Clarksville Montgomery County School system “hacking” causes banking scareClarksville Online

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Blizzard to start banning Diablo 3 cheaters/hackers/botters – Ubergizmo


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Blizzard to start banning Diablo 3 cheaters/hackers/botters
Ubergizmo
By Tyler Lee on 06/12/2012 06:29 PDT If you've ever played Diablo or Diablo 2, you're no doubt familiar with some hacking tools that basically allows you to cheat in the game. This comes in the form of resetting your stats, giving you tons of gold,

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Security Products Can Themselves Become Door for Hackers – MarketWatch (press release)

Security Products Can Themselves Become Door for Hackers
MarketWatch (press release)
BANGALORE, India, Jun 12, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A study by iViZ Security ( www.ivizsecurity.com ) on security products titled "(In)Security in Security Products" finds that many security products are themselves vulnerable to hacking.

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Hackers protest anti-hacking bill by hacking govt sites – GMA News

Hackers protest anti-hacking bill by hacking govt sites
GMA News
By Juan Miguel Lago June 12, 2012 8:30pm Seven government websites have been hacked on Independence Day as a protest against certain provisions in the anti-cybercrime bill passed by the House. The group responsible is calling themselves "PrivateX",

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Last.fm latest site to report password leak – CBC.ca


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Last.fm latest site to report password leak
CBC.ca
The passwords are believed to have been uploaded by a Russian hacker to an online forum dedicated to collectively cracking passwords on the site InsidePro.com, which sells password recovery software. They were uploaded without usernames attached and in
LinkedIn seeks FBI help to probe hackingGMA News
5 Things to know about password safetyHollandSentinel.com
LinkedIn Security Breach: A Reason to Change Your Passwords (At Least!)Small Business Trends
TECH.BLORGE.com -Livemint
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