A botnet of about 50,000 infected computers has been attacking U.S. government websites and causing trouble for businesses in both the United States and South Korea.
The attack started this past Saturday it knocking out the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s website on Monday and Tuesday.  Other government agencies have also been targeted, including the [...]

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Microsoft has taken the unusual step of warning users about a serious computer security hole it hasn’t yet fixed.
The vulnerability disclosed on Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers are running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.
The “hole” allows hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims can become infected by merely [...]

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A large ISP has said that data for as many as 100,000 websites was totally destroyed by hackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a popular virtualization application.
Technicians at the UK-based Vaserv.com are still attempting to recover data over 24 hours after the hackers were able to obtain root access to the company’s system, according [...]

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Here we go again.  Users are being promted to visit the site mygener.im.
This site appears to have already been blocked by most ISP’s as a security threat.
If you are prompted to visit this site, do NOT do so.  If you have already gone to mygener.im, be sure that you clear your cache and your cookies [...]

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This afternoon we see what is possibly another hacking attempt on Google Trends.
Apparently, the number 5 most-searched-for query on Google is the following (click to enlarge)…

So what exactly is…
“hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha”?
Well, we’re not sure yet.  The last few times Google Trends has been hacked, it has usually been in the form of a little harmless fun from [...]

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(NOTE: For those who actually remember the skit referenced in the title of this post, scroll down to view one of the funniest SNL skits of all time, IMHO)
Who has Time Magazine named as the most influential person in the entire world?  Barack Obama?  The Pope?  Richard Simmons?
No, the most influential person in the world [...]

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That unpredictable bunch over at 4chan is at it again.  You just never know whether they will use their powers for good or evil.
This time they have hacked the MobileMe account of actress Salma Hayek and posted the account details on their Anonymous board.
The poster who began the thread (the O.P.) posted the following factoids [...]

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Great. As if there wasn’t enough to worry about these days with the Conficker worm raising eyebrows and Twitter worms running rampant.
Wired now reports that hackers have found a new way to hack your ATM card PIN number too.
Attacks involve a device called a hardware security module (HSM), a security appliance that sits on [...]

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iFart has got nothing on this.  We’ve seen people customize all kinds of common-use items for Twitter (even a washing machine), but nothing compares to this.
Randy Sarafan decided to build an office chair to “accurately document and share [his] life as it happens,” including his farts.

The setup is amazingly complicated: a gas sensor does the [...]

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Analysts in China are quick to dismiss claims that 1,300 computers in 100+ countries have been compromised and have become part of an espionage network called GhostNet, apparently based in China.
Researchers only discovered GhostNet after computers within the Dalai Lama’s office were compromised.
“This is purely another political issue that the West is trying to exaggerate,” [...]

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