15 August, 2012
Google Doubles Down On Rewards For Bug Reports With $2 Million In Hacking … – Forbes
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Google Doubles Down On Rewards For Bug Reports With $2 Million In Hacking …
Forbes On Wednesday the company announced that it's holding another competition for hackers to target its Chrome browser, following the Pwnium competition it held in Vancouver in March, where it offered a total of $1 million in hacking prizes. This time it's … and more » |
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Hackers Attack Ugandan Government Websites to Protest Homophobia
Advocate.com The group of hackers calling themselves Anonymous has targeted websites for Uganda's government in retaliation for its intolerance of LGBT citizens. "We currently have full control of the President of Uganda's website," wrote a hacker on PasteBin, as … Anonymous strikes Uganda, defends LGBT prideExaminer.com all 23 news articles » |
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Scottish Terrorist and Two Hackers Charged University of Pittsburgh Bomb Threats
ABC News A rash of bomb threats that plagued the University of Pittsburgh this spring have apparently ended in charges leveled against a man in Dublin, Ireland, with connections to a Scottish terrorism group who is accused of waging threats over the Internet at … FBI to announce 'significant developments' in Pitt bomb threat investigationWPXI Pittsburgh Ireland man charged in Pitt bomb threatsWTAE Pittsburgh all 100 news articles » |
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Anonymous says it hacked 10M PSN accounts; Sony disagrees
ZDNet Anonymous claims to have struck again as far as the Sony PlayStation Network is concerned. A tweet posted on Wednesday to the Twitter account of the infamous international hacker group asserted that the PlayStation Network had been hacked again. Anonymous Claims to Have Hacked the Playstation Network AgainStickSkills all 14 news articles » |
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Hacking for the greater good
Indian Express The appointment of Jeff Moss, a veteran hacker also known by his hacker name Dark Tangent, as vice president and chief security officer of International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) raised several eyebrows, with questions asked … |
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News Corp sets up global ethics team in wake of hacking scandal
Reuters (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has set up a global compliance and ethics team led by its top in-house lawyer as it continues to deal with the long-term fallout of a phone-hacking scandal that rocked the company just over a year ago. In a memo … News Corp Announces New Ethics Oversight StructureWall Street Journal Rupert Murdoch Outlines News Corp. Ethics, Compliance Initiatives in Staff MemoHollywood Reporter News Corp Formalizes Ethics Training And Oversight OperationsDeadline.com all 18 news articles » |
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News Corp sets up global ethics team in wake of hacking scandal
Chicago Tribune (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has set up a global compliance and ethics team led by its top in-house lawyer, as it deals with the lingering fallout of a phone-hacking scandal that rocked the company just over a year ago. In a memo to staff … News Corp. Unveils New Ethics Oversight StructureWall Street Journal Rupert Murdoch Outlines News Corp. Ethics, Compliance Initiatives in Staff MemoHollywood Reporter all 34 news articles » |
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Medina Fair 'friend' accused of hacking resident's computer: Strongsville …
Plain Dealer (blog) SUSPICIOUS SITUATION, NORTHVIEW DRIVE: A woman called police at approximately 1:15 a.m. Aug. 6, after she suspected her computer was being hacked by someone she met the night before. The woman said she was at the Medina County Fair and … |
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“Hacking the Universe” –Astrophysicists Recreating the Cosmos from Scratch – The Daily Galaxy (blog)
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"Hacking the Universe" –Astrophysicists Recreating the Cosmos from Scratch
The Daily Galaxy (blog) "Hacking the Universe" –Astrophysicists Recreating the Cosmos from Scratch · Recreatingas. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and their colleagues at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have … |
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Reuters blog platform hacked for 2nd time
Huffington Post LONDON — The Reuters news agency says hackers have broken into one of its websites for the second time in two weeks and posted a false story saying Saudi Arabia's foreign minister had died. Reuters said Wednesday in a news story posted on its … |
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Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Saudi blog posted
Chicago Tribune DUBAI (Reuters) – The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said. |
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Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Saudi blog posted
Reuters DUBAI Aug 15 (Reuters) – The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the … and more » |
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Reuters blogging platform hacked, false Saudi blog posted
Reuters UK DUBAI (Reuters) – The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked on Wednesday and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said. and more » |
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Interplanetary hacking: Is Anonymous planning to hijack Nasa's Curiosity rover?
Daily Mail A New York security firm claims to have spotted a message on an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) asking for hep to hack into the signals Nasa uses to communicate with the Curiosity rover. Flashpoint Partners spotted the following message by user … Hackers could destroy CuriosityFudzilla all 4 news articles » |
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Two-day ethical hacking workshop in city
IBNLive.com A two-day workshop on ethical hacking and online security will be organised by Oakridge internation school, which will be held by renowned computer security expert Ankit Fadia. The programme will be held on August 25 & 26, from 9 am to 5 pm and is open … and more » |
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Of the Honan Hack, social engineering, security and the need for a weirder …
SDTimes.com (blog) Looking back, I should have listened to my friend Danny when it came to matters of computer security. Granted, Danny tends to be of the opinion that almost no security protocol is strong enough, no password you've chosen is random enough and when … |
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Printer Blames Hacking for Hong Kong Filings Mix-Up
Businessweek The erroneous filing of three documents under the wrong companies' tickers on the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (BNWEXCH) news website on Aug. 12 may have been caused by hackers, the printing company involved said. An unidentified person … Hong Kong-Listed Companies Suspended After Printer's 'Information Failure'Fox Business all 10 news articles » |
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A Perilous Cyber World: Guarding Personal Information from Hackers and Thieves
PBS When tech writer Mat Honan's iCloud account was hacked, he lost control over his emails, phone, and personal computer, losing correspondence, photos of family members and more. Jeffrey Brown gets a lesson in protecting personal information online from … and more » |
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Anonymous strikes Uganda, defends LGBT pride
Examiner.com International hacktivist collective Anonymous has hacked and defaced several Ugandan government websites in support of LGBT pride and in retaliation for draconian and inhumane anti-gay government policies. Ugandan government websites hacked and … Anonymous Hacks Ugandan Government In Retaliation For Anti-LGBT PoliciesThinkProgress Hackers take over Uganda government websites due to anti-gay policyGay Star News all 15 news articles » |
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