Rap fans were treated to a bizzare series of messages over the weekend after the Twitter accounts of Lil Wayne was hacked.
It started with a diss that could possibly have come from Wayne, directed at rival Soulja Boy. “I sent a donations to your Paypal, check it, I heard you got 13,000 Read More
The hacker group Gnosis brought down the Gawker Media empire over the weekend.
As part of their attack, they revealed sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of Gawker users.
For the security specilialists at Duo, this was a golden opportunity to practice their craft.
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David Kernell, the student who hacked Sarah Palin’s email account, has been sentenced to one year in jail.
Hacked is kind of a funny word to use here. To get into Palin’s email account, Kernell simply reset Palin’s password using her birthdate, ZIP code and Yahoo’s security question: Where did you meet your Read More
Federal and state prosecutors in New York brought charges against a ring of international cyber-criminals who used computer viruses to break into bank accounts. Among them were four New York students, including 21 year Kristina Svechinskaya, who is being groomed as the next Anna Chapman by the NY dailies.
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UPDATE – Foursquare’s response is now at the bottom
Becoming “mayor” of a location is the most coveted status in Foursquare. To win this honor you have to check in to a location more than anyone else, and to do that you actually have to go there, since Foursquare won’t let you check in remotely. Read More
