Friday, May 30th, 2008 The computer attackers who took down Comcast's homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn't know what they were getting themselves into.In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as "Defiant" and "EBK" expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008 A wiry young man with his head shaved and wearing a tank top points a handgun straight at the camera in a disturbing YouTube video. The man wears what appears to be a wedding ring, and he gazes vacantly away from the viewer.Though it's an odd image for an advertisement, ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Web developer Aza Raskin knows we visit Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and Facebook without even having to ask.No, he isn't employing privacy violating hackery, but he is exploiting a "cute" information leak in CSS that traditionally displays visited links differently than those that have yet to be visited. By loading in ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 To use an Internet-connected computer is to be insecure and place your privacy in danger. Spyware, viruses, Trojans and assorted malware are everywhere on the Net, trying to hop onto your PC and cause damage. Snoopers want to get at your personal information for nefarious purposes, such as identity theft.Operating ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 An unpatched bug in Adobe Systems' Flash Player software is being exploited by online criminals, Symantec reported Monday.Few details on the bug are available, but the flaw lies in the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player browser plugin, which is widely used by Internet surfers to view animated Web ...
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