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Audio and slides from the Antispyware Coalition are now up

Audio and slides from the Antispyware Coalition are now up

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Audio and slides from the recent Antispyware Coalition Public Workshop are now up.  Link here.



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No, not a terrorist attack — just simple stupid hacks to redirect people to porn and other junk. Largely used for search engine optimization.The city of Dinuba, California and Inyocourt seem to have some problems. They’ve got...


Use of web archive did not constitute hacking, says US court

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The use of web archive The Wayback Machine did not constitute hacking in the case of a law firm which used the web archive to see pages which owners did not want it to see, a US court has ruled.The use of web archive The Wayback...


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In a 4 day event spanning from the 22nd to the 25th of September, Terra Soft will host a 6 node PS3 cluster and hands-on workshop for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux, compute image deployment via Y-HPC, and use of Torque and...


Californian veterinary medicine school hacked

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More than 1,100 new students starting at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine got a shock last month when they found their personal accounts on the University computer system had already been accessed....


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Driven by strong financial incentives and using widely available malicious code software packages, “affiliations” are being created that promote infections using a “hosted” model for the malicious code. In this scheme, the...


Another massive university porn hacking spree

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Mobile hacking on the rise, says research firm

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Hackers are concentrating on mobile devices as more people conduct their internet banking on the move, according to a research firm. TowerGroup says that mobile devices are hackers' next big target."We're currently in the lull...


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Man used MP3 player to hack cash machines

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A man in Manchester has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people's money after using the machine to read card details.Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the...


Hacker Hacked

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Feb.gov hacked by Islamic hacker

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The Associated Press reports that a 25-year-old man has been charged with hacking into the University of Southern California's (USC's) computer system and accessing information about student applicants.The newswire says that Eric...


Aussie arrested in international hacking incident

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