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Twitter account been hacked? Change your password (and keep your pants on)

Posted November 9, 2012 - 6:50 pm

Twitter sent emails to thousands of users telling them their accounts were hacked -- but they weren't. Now everyone's confused about what they should do.
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How to keep hackers out of your Google, Facebook, and Twitter accounts

Posted August 8, 2012 - 5:10 pm

Don't let hackers do to you what they did to Wired's Mat Honan. Using two-factor log-ons can help keep attackers from hijacking your accounts.
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Don’t be a Yahoo, or why passwords totally suck

Posted July 12, 2012 - 3:49 pm

Hackers have leaked more than 450,000 Yahoo passwords onto the InterWebs. More proof you never should have used Yahoo Voices in the first place.
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Hacked and mangled -- yet again

Posted April 5, 2012 - 1:56 pm

For the second time in two years my WordPress site was hacked, this time by Viagra spammers. Here are a few of the hard lessons I learned.
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GitHub hacked, coder conflicts grow

Posted March 5, 2012 - 11:42 am

Egor Homakov found a way to access every GitHub code repository. Did he report the flaw or hack GitHub?
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Pickpocketing Google Wallet on Android phones

Posted February 10, 2012 - 11:42 am

Simple, non-tech hack opens Google Wallet giving full access to phone funds.
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Symantec record: Two major hacks, two major delays admitting fault, risk to customers

Posted January 26, 2012 - 3:16 pm

If your company were hacked in a way that could directly hurt customers, would you announce the worst-case scenario so they could prep while you develop a solution? Or dribble out the news slowly? Symantec dribbled, first with SSL tokens, then source code, leaving customers at risk.
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Time to change your Amazon password (and everything else)

Posted January 17, 2012 - 5:05 pm

Hackers have gained access to 24 million customer records at Zappos (including mine). Will Amazon and your bank be next?
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Drink on the job, boost your enterprise's WiFi signal?

Posted October 19, 2011 - 11:38 am

Attaching a clean, empty beer can to your WiFi router supposedly can improve wireless signal strength.
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RSA refuses to name China as culprit behind SecureID attack

Posted October 12, 2011 - 11:40 am

After six months of investigation and what it says is plenty of evidence of who is to blame for the data breach that undermined 40 million SecureID token users, RSA announced only that it can say only that the culprit was a hacker and a "nation state." Why so coy, RSA?
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Fired VMware admin admits virtual rampage launched from a McDonald's

Posted August 17, 2011 - 3:17 pm

There is always the potential for drama and tragedy when sysadmins are expendable an even your IT systems are lying to each other.
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Suit charges Sony laid off security before big hack, spent only protect itself afterward

Posted July 1, 2011 - 2:41 pm

One of 19 lawsuits filed following the Sony hacks charged Sony shored up security only on the internal network used by employees.
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Sony's new security plan: so many flaws hackers tire before hitting them all

Posted May 23, 2011 - 7:52 am

Remember when Sony's firewall seemed more like a revolving door? It was actually more like a People Mover.
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Night Dragon hack attacks make cyberwar commercial

Posted February 11, 2011 - 4:56 pm

Workmanlike pool of hackers spend years extracting data from utilities in highly commercial version of Stuxnet worm attack on civil infrastructure.
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Windows: New, improved & more insecure than ever

Posted March 4, 2010 - 3:02 pm

Data execution prevention, a major Windows security feature, has just been busted.
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Cheap WPA Wireless Cracking

Posted December 7, 2009 - 8:31 pm

Pay your money, and a cracker will break open a WPA-protected Wi-Fi network for you using an automated cloud-based hacking tool.
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Hackers exploit second DirectShow zero-day using thousands of hijacked sites

Posted July 6, 2009 - 2:25 pm

A new unpatched Windows bug surfaces; Microsoft hasn't patched the old one from May.
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Web mail company to pay prize after CEO hacked

Posted June 8, 2009 - 3:50 pm

A secure Web mail company that challenged hackers to break into the company's Web mail system is paying out a US$10,000 prize, just days after launching the contest.
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Hackers claim $10,000 prize for breaking into StrongWebmail

Posted June 4, 2009 - 4:50 pm

Voice-based authentication software company Telesign last week challenged hackers to break into the Web mail account of StrongWebmail CEO Darren Berkovitz and report back details from his June 26 calendar entry. Now, a group of security researchers claims to have done just that.
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Hackers tweet, infect Twitter users with scareware

Posted June 1, 2009 - 3:10 pm

The latest attack to hit Twitter is a "security nightmare" and marks the first time hackers have taken to using the micro-blogging site for profit, a researcher said today.
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Investigators replicate Nokia 1100 online banking hack

Posted May 21, 2009 - 4:29 pm

An old candy-bar style Nokia 1100 mobile phone has been used to break into someone's online bank account, affirming why criminals are willing to paying thousands of euros for the device.
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'Hacker' threatens to expose health data, demands $10M

Posted May 6, 2009 - 5:16 pm

Days after a hacker claimed to have broken into a database and encrypted millions of prescription records at Virginia's Department of Health Professions, it remains unclear what happened.
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Simple Steps to Hack a Smartphone

Posted May 4, 2009 - 10:28 am

Trust Digital, a firm that specializes in mobile security, demonstrates how to hack a smartphone with no more information than a phone number.
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Hacker: I broke into Twitter

Posted April 30, 2009 - 4:14 pm

For the second time this year, a hacker has gained administrative access to a Twitter employee's account -- and has posted screenshots to prove the claim.
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The FBI as an ethical hacker?

Posted April 21, 2009 - 2:37 pm

More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware.
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