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3 August, 2012

Hacker Posts False Syria Information on Reuters Blog – New York Times (blog)


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Hacker Posts False Syria Information on Reuters Blog
New York Times (blog)
Reuters News temporarily suspended its opinion blog on Friday after an anonymous hacker broke in and wrote false information about Syria. “Reuters.com was a target of a hack on Friday,” Thomson Reuters said in a statement. “Our blogging platform was
Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Syria blog postedReuters
Reuters blog hacked, fake interview with Syrian rebels postedVentureBeat
Reuters hacked, phony Syria stories postedCNET
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Phone hacking: Met chiefs given £300000 payoffs after resigning – Telegraph.co.uk


Telegraph.co.uk
Phone hacking: Met chiefs given £300000 payoffs after resigning
Telegraph.co.uk
But although all three quit in the face of public anger and scrutiny from MPs over the close relationship between the police and the tabloid newspaper, rather than being dismissed, it has now emerged for the first time that they received substantial

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BMC okays hacking of 481 trees for housing project – Times of India

BMC okays hacking of 481 trees for housing project
Times of India
"We cannot allow them to keep hacking trees, especially as they have not given us any details on the number of tress transplanted or saplings planted," said Chaudhari. Vikas Oberoi, managing director of Oberoi Constructions, said, "The Oberoi group has

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Reuters Hacked, False Stories About Syria Published – Huffington Post

Reuters Hacked, False Stories About Syria Published
Huffington Post
LONDON — The Reuters news agency said Friday that one of its websites had been hacked and used to disseminate fake stories about Syria's rebel movement, the latest cyberattack to strike a media organization covering the country's civil war. Thomson

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Hacking Your Hand – Technology Review

Hacking Your Hand
Technology Review
Eerie welding gear isn't the only thing on display at the forthcoming Siggraph conference in LA. Researchers from Tokyo will be presenting something called “PossessedHand,” an apparatus that can actually control your hand for you. Isn't human-machine

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Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Syria blog posted – Reuters

Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Syria blog posted
Reuters
(Reuters) – Thomson Reuters said the blogging platform of the Reuters News website was compromised on Friday and a false posting purporting to carry an interview with a Syrian rebel leader was illegally posted on a Reuters' journalist's blog. "Reuters
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MLB Facebook Accounts Hacked; Jeter Not Really Having a Sex Change – ABC News (blog)


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MLB Facebook Accounts Hacked; Jeter Not Really Having a Sex Change
ABC News (blog)
Derek Jeter isn't undergoing a sexual reassignment surgery, as the Yankees' Facebook account might have indicated late last night. And the Chicago White Sox don't really believe Obama is a #Muslim President. The status updates were a result of a hack

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Hacking talent for the right purposes – The Asian Age

Hacking talent for the right purposes
The Asian Age
Seventeen-year-old Aneesh Dogra, loves hacking. And the young whiz kid with a passion for computers never thought that he would ever participate in the first International Hackers' Conference held at India Habitat Centre recently; let alone be one of

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Facebook investigating MLB hacking – Newsday (blog)


Newsday (blog)
Facebook investigating MLB hacking
Newsday (blog)
The official Facebook accounts of the Yankees, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres and other teams were all compromised Thursday afternoon when a hacker gained access to their official Facebook accounts and began
Yankees Facebook page hacked, says Jeter to undergo gender changeExaminer.com
Cubs', White Sox' Facebook pages hackedChicago Sun-Times
Cubs, White Sox Facebook Pages HackedNBC Chicago
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Yanks, Cubs, other MLB team Facebook pages hacked – Yahoo! Sports

Yanks, Cubs, other MLB team Facebook pages hacked
Yahoo! Sports
MLB released a statement saying ''for a brief moment today, a few MLB Club Facebook accounts were hacked and inappropriate material was briefly on display.'' The league also said it is working with Facebook and legal authorities to determine what

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Kingpin aka Joe Grand of Prototype This: The Birth of Hardware Badge Hacking – Network World


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Kingpin aka Joe Grand of Prototype This: The Birth of Hardware Badge Hacking
Network World
Joe Grand, once known as Kingpin with the legendary hacking group L0pht, has co-hosted the Discovery Channel's Prototype This and runs Grand Idea Studio. But Grand, an electrical engineer, was the first to design electronic badges for Def Con. The

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Facebook Baseball Pages Hacked, Naughty Messages Posted – PCWorld

Facebook Baseball Pages Hacked, Naughty Messages Posted
PCWorld
Other teams that had their pages hacked included the San Francisco Giants, Washington Nationals, and Chicago Cubs and White Sox. The site of the Yankees arch rivals, the Boston Red Sox, wasn't hacked, although after the Rose Hose salvaged but two

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Closing Time: Josh Rutledge, hacking it in the majors – Yahoo! Sports (blog)


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Closing Time: Josh Rutledge, hacking it in the majors
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Why throw this guy a strike if he'll hack away at a ball? And everyone knows a .379 BABIP isn't likely to hang around. Those caveats established, we can't ignore all the positive elements to the story. Despite his free-swinging ways, Rutledge was

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NotInMyBackyard Tool Shows Who’s Eyeing Your Data Online – Business Insider


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NotInMyBackyard Tool Shows Who's Eyeing Your Data Online
Business Insider
A new Web tool helps companies see just who has access to their personal information online. Released this week, NotInMyBackyard Diggity is free to anyone to use, and sweeps popular sites such as PasteBin, YouTube and Twitter, along with cloud storage

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Anonymous hunts down Voldemort for hacking hungry kids’ charity – Register


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Anonymous hunts down Voldemort for hacking hungry kids' charity
Register
RedSky, a video production firm that produced a documentary to help raise cash for underprivileged kids in New Zealand, was done over by a black hat hacker who uses the Twitter profile AnonVoldemort. Bryan Bruce, the filmmaker whose RedSky.tv website
hackers identify charity attackerBBC News
Hacker attacks charity site to impress AnonymousNew Europe

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T-shirt seller closes trading site and pleads for Anonymous hackers … – The Australian


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T-shirt seller closes trading site and pleads for Anonymous hackers
The Australian
AN ONLINE French t-shirt seller targeted by hackers has closed his trading website and replaced the home page with a letter begging the group Anonymous for understanding. The t-shirt retailer has asked Anonymous hackers to temper their wrath after it
Anonymous vs French company over trademarkDigital Spy
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Anonymous targeting French company over trademark slightsITProPortal
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Cubs’, White Sox’ Facebook pages hacked – Chicago Sun-Times


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Cubs', White Sox' Facebook pages hacked
Chicago Sun-Times
Major League Baseball officials Thursday were investigating the hacking of a number of team Facebook accounts, including the Cubs and White Sox, where inappropriate content was posted in the afternoon. Other teams that had to delete content were the
Several MLB teams have Facebook accounts hacked ThursdayCBSSports.com (blog)
Cubs, White Sox Facebook Pages HackedNBC Chicago
BREAKING: Derek Jeter NOT Missing Season Due To Sex Change, Despite SportsGrid
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