Can you really hack the video screens in New York’s Times Square using nothing but an Apple iPhone and a transmitter? That’s what YouTube user BITcrash44 would have us believe. He’s uploaded a video of himself and a friend in Times Square. They record a video clip on an iPhone, then using a transmitter and [...]
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The battle between the internet group known only as “Anonymous” and the Westboro Baptist Church, a religious hate group, is heating up once again. After repeatedly denying that they were the ones taking down various WBC websites, Anonymous apparently grew tired of Shirley Phelps-Roper‘s incoherent ramblings and her repeated use of the word “thug”. The [...]
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You just don’t mess with Bieber fans. Last night, mere moments after Esperanza Spalding surprisingly won the Grammy for Best New Artist, digital chaos ensued. Just after Wikipedia editors added Spalding’s win to her page, Justin Bieber fans, who wanted the teen idol to win the award instead, began attacking the page. At one point, [...]
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Choosing a complex password can be a real pain sometimes, but it turns out there’s a very good reason for it. There’s a reason most sites want you to choose a password with a number and an upper-case letter in it. Just check out the eye-opening chart below. [Via] Related articles The Problem with Passwords [...]
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Following the arrests of five people in Britain for their supposed involvement in the widely-publicized DDoS attacks in December of last year against a number of online companies for their involvement in cutting services to WikiLeaks, the online group known as Anonymous has declared war on the U.K. The companies originally targeted by the attacks [...]
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The WikiLeaks website was hit with a powerful DDoS attack on Tuesday. The site is currently down for many users in the U.S. and Europe. WikiLeaks caused a media firestorm over the weekend, releasing yet another explosive set of top-secret military cables that some have called a crime against the U.S. The site posted on [...]
Drivers passing through the Arizona desert were warned of zombies roaming along the highway near Tucson over the weekend after someone tampered with electronic road signs. Someone apparently reprogrammed a digital road sign on a highway near Marana, northwest of Tucson, to read “Caaution [sic] Zombies ahead!” The Marana Police Department says is appeared to [...]
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If you like to use public, unsecured WiFi hotspots, beware…someone might just be spying on you. A new Firefox extension called “Firesheep“, which was developed by Eric Butler, will basically let you eavesdrop on any open WiFi network and capture users’ cookies. What does that mean in English? Butler himself says it best. “As soon [...]
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Could nefarious hackers be hard at work defacing Google Trends? If so, it’s a quite an unusual variation on the usual hack attempts. Earlier this morning, the #1 search term on Google Trends was an offensive phrase (“lol” followed by the N-word). That has now disappeared and most of the hot search terms seem to [...]
Remember last April when 4chan’s moot (A.K.A. Chris Poole) somehow managed to temporarily land at the top of Time’s list of the 100 most influential people? Looks like they’ve finally figured out how it happened. The Time folks sent a tweet out earlier this week saying they had determined how 4chan manage to manipulate their [...]
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A powerful new computer virus has breached about 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations across the globe, including the user accounts of various social networking sites, says internet security company NetWitness. The ZeuS Virus, or ZeuS Trojan, collects login information for online financial sites, social networking websites, and the e-mail systems of infected computers and relays [...]
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UPDATE: Floyd Landis has now admitted to doping. An arrest warrant has been issued for cyclist Floyd Landis. According to Pierre Bordry, president of the French anti-doping agency (AFLD), an international warrant was issued on January 28 charging the disgraced cyclist with illegally hacking into an agency computer. As you may recall, Landis had his [...]
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