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News Burst: Administrators at fault in SQL hack, says Microsoft
News A hacker, who targeted three local authorities and five government agency Web sites Monday, claims that a weakness in the SQL servers allowed him to take over the sites. But Microsoft blames administrator error for these attacks on several UK...
[August 21, 2000, 10:30]
Tsunami charity Web site escapes attack
News A man has been arrested for attempting to hack into the DEC.org.uk tsunami charity relief site. The Metropolitan Police were notified after the attempted hack was discovered on New Year's Eve and blocked by BT, which hosts the secure payment area...
[January 24, 2005, 8:45]
TapMap
Downloads RNS:: TapMap is a hack that creates a special map of the Palm's screen. Every time you tap, a pixel position is placed on the map.You can see the map on the hack's configuration form. The darker the pixel on the map, the more often it...
[October 24, 2002, 8:00]
Government hacking illegal say experts
News Experts have concluded that the government probably does not have the legal right to hack into your computer as long as it is properly secured. This news follows speculation by encryption expert Brian Gladman last week that the 1990 Computer Misuse...
[November 30, 1999, 15:41]
UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts
Talkback Great, so now we have the Home Office telling us that they can discern between software written for a hack withot criminal intent, and a hack with criminal intent. Aren't they the same experts who attributed criminal records to 1500 innocent people...
[May 22, 2006, 13:28]
T-Mobile: We were hacked
Talkback hack (v) (hacked, hacking): 1 (often hack something down, away, etc) to cut or chop it roughly.often hack something out) to cut (a path, etc) eg through undergrowth.intrans, colloq (often hack into something) to use a computer with skill...
[January 24, 2005, 7:36]
After Hotmail "glitch" UK Excite accounts cracked
News Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com have fallen victim to an email hack it emerged Thursday, with tens of accounts accessed in the last 24 hours. Following the Hotmail debacle at the start of the week, one non-techie hack has gained access to the accounts...
[September 2, 1999, 16:15]
BeamAlertHack
Downloads This hack eliminates the annoying alert which pops up after each beam (it only appears, if you have turned off 'beam receive' in the palm preferences). This hack is one of the harmless Hackmaster hacks, I call it a read-only-hack, since...
[August 30, 2001, 8:00]
Dynamically Generate a Selection List in a Rails Template
White Papers This hack creates a select element from server-side data using a Ruby on Rails application. This hack has the same behavior as some of the earlier hacks, but the path the code takes to produce its effects is quite different.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Better late than never I suppose.
Talkback I am very glad that Skype have now decided to put back what they call “the garage hack” because I am sure many people will do the hack and have better quality than they do now because there are many web cams on the market Logitech that will...
[November 22, 2007, 22:25]
Mitnick selling notorious laptops
News Crime may not pay, but an online auction of the two laptops used to hack major corporations could garner convicted cybercriminal Kevin Mitnick a tidy sum. These were the laptops used to hack into companies and (security researcher) Shimomura's...
[October 3, 2002, 7:36]
Akamai pulls Al-Jazeera Web support
News First came the crushing traffic and the hack attacks. The apparent hack came on the heels of severe outages caused by waves of traffic. Now Al-Jazeera has lost Web server support for its troubled Internet news efforts.
[April 4, 2003, 15:49]
NoLinesHack
Downloads A simple hack to remove the underlining from editable text fields. It doesn't have a problem with the underlines re-appearing when you enter new text, or backspace in a field, as ClearHack does (which is the only reason I'm releasing this...
[March 16, 2001, 7:00]
ButtonOnHack
Downloads This is a simple hack that maps one of the 4 app buttons to act as a power on button without launching the associated app. This hack is for those of you with cases that make awkward access to the power button, or broken or difficult to use power...
[February 7, 2001, 7:00]
Guardian UK Jobs site hacked, user data breached
Blog The Guardian Jobs website has come under attack from a 'sophisticated and deliberate hack' that has exposed sensitive data, according to an email sent to affected users on Saturday. The system supplier has identified the hack, and the e-crime unit...
[October 25, 2009, 0:12]
Yahoo India hosts mashup event
News Bangalore, India was the venue for Yahoo's first Open Hack Day in Asia. The winner of the Most Parallel hack, called Collaborative Browsing, was an application using a plug-in for Mozilla , Greasemonkey and JavaScript to allow two or more users to...
[October 15, 2007, 16:54]
Man charged in DEC hacking affair
News A London man is to appear in court next week after being charged with attempting to hack into a charity Web site set up to raise relief funds for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. The alleged hack was detected immediately and the Metropolitan...
[February 11, 2005, 14:30]
Linux hackers converge in Australia
News Developers are gearing up for a fiercely competitive hack-fest at a heavyweight Linux conference in Adelaide this month. The hack-fest is a feature of the Linux.conf.au conference, which touts itself as one of three international grassroots Linux...
[January 6, 2004, 9:30]
DockDisks
Downloads DockDisks is an unsupported hack that causes disks to auto-mount in the Dock. DockDisks is an unsupported hack, and as such it is obviously not perfect. This can be handy if you want to put your dock on the right side of the screen but want to...
[July 1, 2004, 8:00]
Brit hackers release new multimedia e-zine
News UK underground hacking group Hack-Net has taken the wraps off a funky new interface for reading Anti-Social magazine, an irreverent account of the British underground scene. The executable program, written in 32-bit assembly code, allows dat files...
[January 6, 2000, 11:46]
