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Seattle man gets 8 years in $3M hacking scheme
The Seattle Times Seattle man gets 8 years in $3M hacking scheme. A Seattle man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for a hacking scheme that defrauded dozens of local businesses out of more than $3 million. The Associated Press … Local Man Gets 8 Years in Prison for $3M Hacking SchemeCBS Local all 17 news articles » |
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Apple investigating iOS in-app purchase hack
ZDNet Summary: Apple is investigating the hacking of its In-App Purchase program for iOS. The hacker, Alexey Borodin, has also come forward to say that iOS app developers can't use receipts to protect themselves and that Apple is transmitting user … Hacker Bypasses Apple's iOS In-App PurchaseseSecurity Planet Trick Gives iPhone Owners Free Access to Paid Content Inside AppsNew York Times (blog) all 178 news articles » |
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Seattle man gets 8 years in $3M hacking scheme
San Francisco Chronicle The U.S. attorney's office in Seattle says 35-year-old Joshuah Allen Witt was sentenced in federal court Friday, following his guilty plea to a conspiracy charge in April. Local Man Gets 8 Years in Prison for $3M Hacking SchemeCBS Local all 12 news articles » |
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Some charges dropped in husband/wife hacking case
San Francisco Chronicle Chief assistant prosecutor Paul Walton says his office was informed by her divorce lawyer that she had read text messages on Leon Walker's phone. Leon Walker still faces trial Monday on a charge of attempting to get access to a confidential law … and more » |
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Hacker Bypasses Apple's iOS In-App Purchases
eSecurity Planet The hack doesn't require any jailbreaking of the device. |
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Simple three-step hack lets iOS users unlock in-app content for free
TechSpot A new three-step hack promises iPhone and iPad users a simple way to install premium in-app purchases from the App Store — for free. Remarkably, the hack doesn't require jailbreaking or the installation of any software. Instead, iOS users are. |
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AOL Newest HACKING Victim and 4 Media Titans Making Waves Now
Wall St. Cheat Sheet AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL): Yahoo confirmed that a hacker group known as The D33D Company, posted online user names and passwords for what appeared to be 453492 accounts belonging to Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, … |
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SQL Injection Attack: What is it, and how to prevent it.
ZDNet (blog) SQL Injection Attack: What is it, and how to prevent it. Summary: The way that Yahoo! was hacked, SQL Injection attack, is the same method as many other hacks in the news recently: SQL Injection. SQL Injection attacks are common for the following … Yahoo Voices breach highlights basic security failingsComputerWeekly.com all 5 news articles » |
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iOS Hacker Unlocks Free In-App Purchases On Most Applications On iPad And …
Huffington Post A Russian hacker who goes by ZonD80 has discovered a simple method that makes in-app purchases on the iPhone and iPad free, a potentially huge financial blow to the iOS developers who rely on the paid upgrades as a primary source of income. |
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Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned
InformationWeek Meanwhile, a hacker or hacking group known as DD3Ds Company leaked about 450000 email addresses and passwords associated with Yahoo Voices, formerly known as Yahoo Contributor Network. The motivation, according to DD3Ds, was simple: it was … Yahoo Breach Extends Beyond Yahoo to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL UsersNew York Times (blog) Yahoo hacking could spawn more email attacksNews10.net Hacking of Yahoo site affects 450000 usersSan Francisco Chronicle Ars Technica -Examiner.com -eWeek all 1,464 news articles » |
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Hacker Discovers Surprisingly Easy Method to Get iPhone and iPad In-App …
Gizmodo The App Store's in-app purchases security has been breached. A Russian hacker has found a method to fool iPhone and iPad apps so that you can get in-app purchases for free. It's surprisingly easy to set up, requiring no jailbreaking or hacking magic at … |
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Nvidia And Android Forums Get Hit In Latest Hack Attack
WebProNews You think the hacking world would be finished with their parade of password thefts after stealing over 450000 of them from Yahoo. Unfortunately, things just never work out in our favor as more passwords have been stolen in the latest hack attack. 1M Android Forum Users' Data HackedNewser NVIDIA Forums HackedAction Trip Billabong, NVIDIA, and Android Forums all affected by hacksSlashGear Computer Business Review -The Next Web all 72 news articles » |
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Phone Hacking Probe: Man Arrested In UK Over Alleged Computer Hacking
Huffington Post LONDON (AP) — British police investigating media wrongdoing say they have arrested a 55-year-old man on suspicion of computer hacking. The Metropolitan Police say the man was detained Friday in Cardiff, Wales, and was being questioned at a police … British police investigating press wrongdoing arrest man over alleged computer …Washington Post Man Arrested in UK Over Alleged Computer…ABC News all 139 news articles » |
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1M Android Forum Users' Data Hacked
Newser Another major security breach has emerged a day after news of a Yahoo hack targeting 450000 users, this time at an online forum for Android users. Hackers snagged user IDs, email addresses, passwords,… Technology News Summaries. | Newser. Billabong, NVIDIA, and Android Forums all affected by hacksSlashGear Nvidia and Phandroid forum latest to get hacking treatmentComputer Business Review And another! Nvidia suspends Developer Zone forum following suspected data …The Next Web all 67 news articles » |
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Yahoo hacking could spawn more email attacks
News10.net You now have one more reason to be wary of viral e-mail slipping into your inbox this summer. Yahoo on Thursday confirmed the theft of 450000 Yahoo users' e-mail addresses and passwords. The thieves posted the data on a hackers' website with a … |
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Yahoo Password Breach: New Risks
InformationWeek A hacker or hacking group known as DD3Ds Company leaked the Yahoo passwords Wednesday. "We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat," read a note included at … Yahoo Breach Extends Beyond Yahoo to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL UsersNew York Times (blog) Hackers expose 453000 credentials allegedly taken from Yahoo service (Updated)Ars Technica Hacking of Yahoo site affects 450000 usersSan Francisco Chronicle News10.net -Examiner.com -PCWorld all 1,424 news articles » |
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Home News Yahoo Officials Confirm Hackers Nabbed 400000 Passwords
CIO Insight Less than 5 percent of the Yahoo accounts had valid passwords listed, the company contends. Social networking site Formspring disables 30 million user passwords following …Daily Journal all 354 news articles » |
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Online Android forum hacked, user data accessed
Computerworld Android Forums, an online forum for Android users, was the target of a hacker attack which could have led to user information including passwords getting compromised, its operator Phandroid.com said on Thursday. |
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British police investigating press wrongdoing arrest man over alleged computer …
Washington Post LONDON — British police investigating media wrongdoing say they have arrested a 55-year-old man on suspicion of computer hacking. Man arrested in UK over alleged computer hackingHuffington Post Man Arrested in UK Over Alleged Computer…ABC News Met Police arrest man in Tuleta hacking investigationZDNet all 125 news articles » |
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Met Police arrest man in Tuleta hacking investigation
ZDNet Summary: A man has been arrested at his home in Cardiff by officers from Operation Tuleta, which is looking at computer hacking in relation to the UK phone-hacking scandal. British police investigating press wrongdoing arrest man over alleged computer …Washington Post Man arrested in UK over alleged computer hackingThe Associated Press Man Arrested in UK Over Alleged Computer…ABC News The Guardian -WalesOnline all 49 news articles » |
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Billabong, NVIDIA, and Android Forums all affected by hacks
SlashGear ZDNet reports that Phandroid suffered from a hack on its Android Forums, which exposed usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords. Its not known how many users have been affected by the hack, although the forum has over a million registered … And another! Nvidia suspends Developer Zone forum following suspected data …The Next Web all 21 news articles » |
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Hackers breach Yahoo's system
Tampabay.com More than 400000 user names and passwords were posted online. SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo confirmed Thursday that about 400000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies were stolen Wednesday. |
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One heckuva goof
New York Post The No. 1 web portal revealed yesterday it had 450000 user names stolen by hackers — just hours before it faced anxious shareholders at their annual meeting. Red-faced executives said the names, stolen on July 11, contained contained log-in names and … and more » |
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Yahoo and Formspring Hacked Just One Month After LinkedIn & eHarmony …
Examiner.com Hackers have just added Yahoo and Formspring to the steadily increasing list of breached websites. If you recall it was just last month that eHarmony, LinkedIn. Yahoo's passwords compromisedThe Droid Guy Social networking site Formspring disables 30 million user passwords following …Daily Journal 'Password', 'passw0rd' and '123456': Why we need to alter our passwordsMetro SC Magazine Australia all 360 news articles » |
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Yahoo hacked, should you change your password?
Examiner.com Associated Content flew under the freelance radar for years when it came to hackers but Yahoo is another story. Over 400000 freelance writer accounts have bee. |
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