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1 August, 2012

DEFCON Kids: Hacking roller coasters and the power grid with cell phones – Network World


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DEFCON Kids: Hacking roller coasters and the power grid with cell phones
Network World
When you think about hacking conferences with about 15000 hackers attending, 8-year-old kids might not be your first thought. Yet Def Con Kids was so amazing that I cannot encourage you enough to enroll your kids next year. Don Bailey & Nick DePetrillo

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Huawei Routers Are Easily Hacked, Say Security Pros – eWeek


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Huawei Routers Are Easily Hacked, Say Security Pros
eWeek
Routers made by China-based Huawei Technologies have very few modern security protections and easy-to-find vulnerabilities, two network-security experts stated at the Defcon hacking convention. The two researchers—Felix "FX" Lindner and Gregor Kopf,
Hackers topple Huawei routersNEWS.com.au
Huawei's routers of vulnerabilityThe H

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Curious hackers inject ghost airplanes into radar, track celebrities’ flights – Computerworld (blog)


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Curious hackers inject ghost airplanes into radar, track celebrities' flights
Computerworld (blog)
What happens when a hacker gets bored and curious about airplane tracking systems? In the case of Brad “RenderMan” Haines, aka @ihackedwhat, a very interesting Def Con 20 presentation happened called “Hacker + Airplanes = No Good Can Come Of

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Hackers topple Huawei routers – NEWS.com.au


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Hackers topple Huawei routers
NEWS.com.au
HACKERS at the infamous Def Con gathering in Las Vegas were shown how to easily slip into computer networks through some routers made by Chinese electronics colossus Huawei Technologies. "For the 20th anniversary of Def Con the gift his China,"
Huawei's routers of vulnerabilityThe H

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News Corp. Being Considered for Corporate Hacking Offenses – Businessweek

News Corp. Being Considered for Corporate Hacking Offenses
Businessweek
(NWSA) (NWSA)'s British publishing unit said it's aware London police are considering whether corporate charges may be brought against its board over phone hacking at its now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The Metropolitan Police Service in London
News Corp. Aware of Police Statements on Corporate OffensesBloomberg

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11 Security Sights Seen Only At Black Hat – InformationWeek


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11 Security Sights Seen Only At Black Hat
InformationWeek
The Black Hat origin story is simple: Twenty years ago, Jeff Moss founded DEF CON for hackers to share security knowledge and hijinks, with a bargain-basement conference venue and rooms–thanks, in part, to it being the height of summer in a dessert.
Def Con hackers go mainstream but still love to partyNBCNews.com
Computer hacking for 8-year-oldsCNN
At DEF CON Kids convention, computer hacking is child's playExtremeTech

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The Husband and the Hacker: A Park Cities Divorce Gets Gets Weird, with Help … – Dallas Observer (blog)

The Husband and the Hacker: A Park Cities Divorce Gets Gets Weird, with Help
Dallas Observer (blog)
The Oberheiden Law Firm, a "full-service international law firm" headquartered in Dallas, has a small problem. Someone has been hacking into the email account of the firm's founder and principal, Nick Oberheiden, and has been registering scads of fake

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Brandi Glanville thinks she is the newest victim of celebrity Twitter hacking – Examiner.com


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Brandi Glanville thinks she is the newest victim of celebrity Twitter hacking
Examiner.com
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Brandi Glanville tweeted yesterday that she was sick and was staying in bed for the majority of the day. Part of being sick included watching the Olympics on television last night and hanging out with her

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Microsoft: Hackers aiming for cross-platform vulnerabilities – InfoWorld

Microsoft: Hackers aiming for cross-platform vulnerabilities
InfoWorld
Other cross-platform, third-party technologies favored by hackers include Java, Adobe PDF and Adobe Flash, Microsoft security researcher Methusela Cebrian Ferrer said Tuesday in the company's Malware Protection Center blog. [ Prevent corporate data

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Murdoch companies and directors could face phone hacking charges – Telegraph.co.uk


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Murdoch companies and directors could face phone hacking charges
Telegraph.co.uk
News Corporation and its directors face the prospect of criminal charges in the UK after it emerged the parties could be liable for phone hacking offences under “neglect of duty” legislation. Murdoch companies and directors could face phone hacking
News Corp. Aware of Police Statements on Corporate OffensesBloomberg
News Corporation directors could face charges for neglect of dutiesThe Guardian
Bloomberg: News Corp Requests New Allegations In Phone Hacking Be Kept Media Matters for America (blog)
New York Magazine -Las Vegas Sun
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VMWare (NASDAQ:VMW): The Hacking of the Cloud – Expedated

VMWare (NASDAQ:VMW): The Hacking of the Cloud
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Northern, WI 8/1/2012 (Expedated) – VMWare (NASDAQ:VMW): The Hacking of the Cloud was inevitable in fact computer virus's are inevitable, the average consumer consumer has music, photos, files, documents, wills and favorites on a single device and

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Dropbox confirms hacking attack, increases security – Digital Spy


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Dropbox confirms hacking attack, increases security
Digital Spy
Dropbox, the online storage company that counts U2's Bono and The Edge among its investors, has confirmed that it was the victim of a hacking attack last month in which usernames and passwords were stolen. In a blog post yesterday (July 31), the
Dropbox Confirms Hacking Reports, Adds New Security Features To Bolster International Business Times

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Dropbox Confirms Hacking Reports, Adds New Security Features To Bolster … – International Business Times


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Dropbox Confirms Hacking Reports, Adds New Security Features To Bolster
International Business Times
Dropbox, the online file storage site, confirmed Tuesday that a small number of accounts were hacked on its services and the organization has introduced security features that improve account safety and facilitate robust recovery even if it is hacked

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News Corp. Aware of Police Statements on Corporate Offenses – Bloomberg


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News Corp. Aware of Police Statements on Corporate Offenses
Bloomberg
About 60 people have been arrested since police started probes last year into phone hacking and bribery at News Corp. tabloids. Eight former journalists were charged last month with conspiring to intercept voice mail, including former News
Murdoch companies and directors could face phone hacking chargesTelegraph.co.uk
News Corporation directors could face charges for neglect of dutiesThe Guardian
Bloomberg: News Corp Requests New Allegations In Phone Hacking Be Kept Media Matters for America (blog)
New York Magazine -Las Vegas Sun
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Journalist bailed in hacking probe – The Independent


Telegraph.co.uk
Journalist bailed in hacking probe
The Independent
The 37-year-old was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods after attending an east London police station by appointment at 11am yesterday. The man was held in relation to a suspected conspiracy involving the gathering of data from stolen mobile
Ninth arrest made in hacking investigationUPI.com
Police arrest UK reporter over cell phone theftsHuffington Post
Sun journalist arrested as part of computer hacking probeTelegraph.co.uk
Las Vegas Sun -Washington Post
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Ninth arrest made in hacking investigation – UPI.com


Telegraph.co.uk
Ninth arrest made in hacking investigation
UPI.com
The 37-year-old suspect reported to a police station by appointment and was taken into custody as part of the computer hacking probe Operation Tuleta, running alongside the ongoing Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking. The Daily Telegraph reported he was
Police arrest UK reporter over cell phone theftsHuffington Post
Sun journalist arrested as part of computer hacking probeTelegraph.co.uk
UK police arrest reporter at The Sun tabloid in inquiry into stolen cell phone Washington Post
The Independent
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No safe haven: the global Secret Service hunt for three hackers – Ars Technica


Ars Technica
No safe haven: the global Secret Service hunt for three hackers
Ars Technica
Suvorov didn't hack his way in, exactly—he actually had the proper credentials for the POS server. He had obtained them by hacking a bit further up the credit card food chain and breaking into servers run by Micros, maker of the POS system used at

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