Some of the threats the post got were so serious that police had extra patrols at the student’s high school Wednesday.
The Ingenious Ways Hackers Exploit Us
The information brokers would just do brute-force voicemail-pin hacking and guess the password — something a schoolboy could do.
‘Biohackers’ Get Their Own Space to Create
Silicon Valley has sprouted numerous “hacker spaces” in recent years, where software geeks get together to program and build new Web creations. Now there’s a hangout for “biohackers,” too.
BioCurious, a 2,500-square-foot community lab in a low-slung o…
Victims of hacking stay silent on espionage
HACKERS in China rifled the computers of DuPont at least twice in 2009 and 2010, hunting for the secrets that made the company one of the world’s most successful chemical makers.
But investors would have learned nothing on the subject from DuPont’s reg…
Stratfor Back Online; CEO Decries Hacking As Censorship
Intelligence analysis publisher Stratfor is back online (though their servers seem somewhat taxed at the moment), following a hack over Christmas which resulted in the theft of personal information, including credit card information, of some of the com…
Public attack code aimed at ASP.net servers works, says Symantec
Researchers at Symantec yesterday confirmed that working attack code published Jan. 6 can cripple Web servers running Microsoft’s ASP .Net.
The proof-of-concept exploit was published last Friday on GitHub, a site that hosts software projects, and has b…
Indian hackers fell DGPR website
Directorate General Public Relations ‘s official website has been hacked by Indian hackers, on Tuesday.