Symantec said that folks running its pcAnywhere utility were at an “increased risk” when it revealed that the company had been hacked and its source codes pilfered , and advised customers to stop using pcAnywhere for the time being. Sage advice, as a hacker with the handle YamaTough — who’s affiliated with Anonymous — helped do the deed and has now published the code for all the world to see
Symantec said that folks running its pcAnywhere utility were at an “increased risk” when it revealed that the company had been hacked and its source codes pilfered , and advised customers to stop using pcAnywhere for the time being. Sage advice, as a hacker with the handle YamaTough — who’s affiliated with Anonymous — helped do the deed and has now published the code for all the world to see
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Hacker spites Symantec, puts pcAnywhere’s source code out in the open
Lunch hours may never feel safe again. That is, if you have a Mac running Lion / FileVault 2, like leaving your computer around, or have unscrupulous colleagues
Lunch hours may never feel safe again. That is, if you have a Mac running Lion / FileVault 2, like leaving your computer around, or have unscrupulous colleagues
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Passware claims FileVault 2 can be cracked in under an hour, sells you the software to prove it
Hey, so, it’s Change Your Password Day.
The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself.
The only person you can rely on to keep your password secure is yourself.
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Your Passwords Suck
Businesses spend billions each year beefing up security, but they rarely consider the vulnerability of their videoconferencing equipment.
Businesses spend billions each year beefing up security, but they rarely consider the vulnerability of their videoconferencing equipment.
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Videoconferences May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers
Breaches that hit two Amazon-owned sites, Zappos.com and 6PM, over the weekend point to an unsettling truth: even the biggest players on the Web cannot guarantee that their customers’ personal information is safe. Instead, many security experts throw the burden back to consumers by recommending that consumers take a more vigilant approach to protecting their personal data
Breaches that hit two Amazon-owned sites, Zappos.com and 6PM, over the weekend point to an unsettling truth: even the biggest players on the Web cannot guarantee that their customers’ personal information is safe. Instead, many security experts throw the burden back to consumers by recommending that consumers take a more vigilant approach to protecting their personal data
Hackers have stolen some of the programming code for two of Symantec’s antivirus products for businesses, but it said the products involved-which were Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2-are four and five years old.
Hackers have stolen some of the programming code for two of Symantec’s antivirus products for businesses, but it said the products involved-which were Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2-are four and five years old.
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Symantec Confirms ‘Segment’ of Source Code Was Stolen
Graduate students at Drexel University have released two potentially provocative tools to identify the author of a disputed document or to help an author avoid detection. The tools, which are still being developed, could have larger repercussions for whistle-blowers, human rights advocates, hackers and, well, anyone who doesn’t want their writing traced back to them down the road.
Graduate students at Drexel University have released two potentially provocative tools to identify the author of a disputed document or to help an author avoid detection. The tools, which are still being developed, could have larger repercussions for whistle-blowers, human rights advocates, hackers and, well, anyone who doesn’t want their writing traced back to them down the road.
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Software Helps Identify Anonymous Writers or Helps Them Stay That Way
SOPA is making ordinary, decent internet users mad as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore. Hacker attendees of Berlin’s Chaos Communication Congress are cooking up a plan to launch a series of homemade satellites as the backbone of an ” uncensorable (sic) internet in space.” Like all good ideas, there’s a few hurdles to overcome first: objects in lower-Earth orbit circle the earth every 90 minutes, useless for a broadband satellite that needs to remain geostationary. Instead, a terrestrial network of base stations will have to be installed in order to remain in constant contact as it spins past, at the cost of €100 ($130) per unit
SOPA is making ordinary, decent internet users mad as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore. Hacker attendees of Berlin’s Chaos Communication Congress are cooking up a plan to launch a series of homemade satellites as the backbone of an ” uncensorable (sic) internet in space.” Like all good ideas, there’s a few hurdles to overcome first: objects in lower-Earth orbit circle the earth every 90 minutes, useless for a broadband satellite that needs to remain geostationary. Instead, a terrestrial network of base stations will have to be installed in order to remain in constant contact as it spins past, at the cost of €100 ($130) per unit
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Hackers planning homespun anti-censorship satellite internet
How can we appreciate bullet-quick SSDs and fiber networks without pausing — at the year’s end — to appreciate where it all came from? We should think back to before the birth of modern computing , even before the telegraph , to a time when bits of data were forced to travel everywhere by train. A hacker named Maximilien has now recreated that locomotive golden era using Lego, Arduino and Linux, and what his system lacks in bandwidth it more than makes up for in historical relevance.
How can we appreciate bullet-quick SSDs and fiber networks without pausing — at the year’s end — to appreciate where it all came from? We should think back to before the birth of modern computing , even before the telegraph , to a time when bits of data were forced to travel everywhere by train. A hacker named Maximilien has now recreated that locomotive golden era using Lego, Arduino and Linux, and what his system lacks in bandwidth it more than makes up for in historical relevance.
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Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set
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