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By Kat Stoeffel 5/02/12 4:01pm

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Mascots for the New Yorker and LulzSec share a love of monocles.

Are Hackers Punishing Conde Nast for the New Yorker’s Geohot Profile? [UPDATED]

This week the New Yorker published a lengthy profile of George Hotz, the 21-year-old hacker who first unlocked the iPhone and went on to be the unwitting cause of Anonymous’s attack on Sony. Now it appears the magazine is receiving the prescribed backlash to writing about hackers—being hacked.

NewYorker.com was extremely sluggish Wednesday afternoon, a tipster pointed out, and we’re told these lost packets could mean the site is under a DDoS attack. The websites of other Conde Nast magazines like GQ, Vogue, Bon Appetit, Wired and Vanity Fair were all slow around the same time.

A live chat with the author of the George Hotz profile, David Kushner, scheduled for yesterday at 3 p.m., was rescheduled for Friday.

For their part, Conde Nast said any slowness is unrelated.

“We are experiencing some technical difficulties due to a new feature that we added to our sites,”  a company spokesperson explained. “We are current rolling that back and expect the sites to be back up to speed shortly.”

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By Ben Popper 6/17/11 1:14pm

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As It Hits 1,000 Tweets, @LulzSec Explains Its Reign of Terror

Few hackers groups in the history of the internet age have claimed responsibility for attacks on so many prominent targets in such a short period of time.

“For the past month and a bit, we’ve been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the internet,” wrote LulzSec today,  ”attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.”
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By Mike Taylor 2/07/11 5:52pm

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Nasdaq Hacked for Fun and/or Profit

So the Nasdaq got hacked. Over the weekend, news of a hacker attack on the Nasdaq stock exchange began gathering steam. On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported the cybernetic tresspassing, saying the stakes were high: “The Nasdaq situation has set off alarms within the government because of the exchange’s critical role, which officials Read More

By admin 1/11/11 3:08pm

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Kim Jong Un Got Hacked For His Birthday

North Korea has a website. As in, a single website.

It also has one Twitter account and one YouTube account. That’s how stuff works in a crazy, despotic dictatorship.

Anyways, this past weekend marked the birthday of Kim Jong-Un, scion of the increasingly unhinged Kim Jong-il and closely watched heir to the throne.

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