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Smut-peddling hackers pwn TechCrunch  26 January 2010 
Source: The Register - Posted by Alex   
Popular technology site TechCrunch was hit by potty-mouth hackers late on Monday, leaving the site temporarily unavailable. A notice on TechCrunch.com's front page on Tuesday morning explains that "TechCrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit". Access to the site's story archive has been suspended leaving a two para notice on the hack as the only content visible on the site.
 
Geohot, the iPhone hacker, cracks Sony’s PlayStation 3 console  26 January 2010 
Source: TopNews - Posted by anthony   
George Hotz, aka Geohot, the 20-year-old hacker who successfully cracked the Apple iPhone, claimed in a Friday blog post that after working on the PlayStation3 for nearly five weeks, he has finally managed to hack Sony’s popular gaming console and run his own software on it.
 
Three years later, the PS3 gets hacked  25 January 2010 
Source: arsTechnica - Posted by anthony   
After over three years on the market, the PlayStation 3 has finally been hacked. Famous iPhone hacker George Hotz, aka "GeoHot", has become the first to achieve the feat, though what this means for the PS3 modding community remains to be seen.
 
Survey: Data breaches from malicious attacks doubled last year  25 January 2010 
Source: CNET - Posted by anthony   
Data breaches at U.S. companies attributed to malicious attacks and botnets doubled from 2008 to 2009 and cost substantially more than breaches caused by human negligence or system glitches, according to a new Ponemon survey to be released on Monday.
 
Users on hacked site used 'trivial' passwords  21 January 2010 
Source: Tech World - Posted by Alex   
The hackers who stole and published 33 million passwords from the Rockyou.com website in December needn't have bothered, a security company has revealed. Many of them were so trivial they could have been guessed anyway.
 
Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show  19 January 2010 
Source: Wired - Posted by Alex   
Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by the anti-virus firm McAfee.
 
Attack code used to hack Google now public  18 January 2010 
Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex   
The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public. The code was submitted for analysis Thursday on the Wepawet malware analysis Web site, making it publicly available. By Friday, it had been included in at least one publicly available hacking tool and could be seen in online attacks, according to Dave Marcus, director of security research and communications at McAfee.
 
D-Link admits home routers vulnerable to hackers  18 January 2010 
Source: Tech World - Posted by anthony   
Router manufacturer D-Link admitted that some of its routers have a vulnerability that could allow hackers access to a device's administrative settings, but it has issued patches.
 
Hacker Breaches N.Y. Bank  15 January 2010 
Source: eSecurity Planet - Posted by anthony   
Officials at Suffolk County National Bank in Long Island, N.Y. this week are warning more than 8,000 customers that their account login information was likely compromised in November, when a hacker illegally accessed a server hosting its online banking system.
 
Social Engineering: The Basics Engineering  14 January 2010 
Source: CSO Online - Posted by Alex   
What is social engineering? What are the most common and most current tactics? And how can your organization prevent these scams? A guide on how to stop social engineering.
 
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