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Fixed BBC iPlayer hacked again
News He then rewrote his own original Ruby iPlayer interface "hack" code. The iPlayer hack released on Thursday can run on Linux, Windows and Mac operating systems, Battley claimed, and circumvents Windows-based digital rights management.
[March 14, 2008, 16:00]
New Xbox security cracked by Linux fans
News Some mod chips can be reprogrammed, however, and will be able to take advantage of the new hack to regain control of the console. Green said that it took him less than a week to pull off the successful hack.
[October 14, 2002, 16:26]
SWF Encrypt Windows
Downloads In addition to providing protection from the items listed above, Encrypting your SWF files also ensures that users are more likely to purchase your Flash based products/services, rather than spend the time to try and decompile or hack their way...
[May 8, 2008, 8:00]
SWF Encrypt
Downloads In addition to providing protection from the items listed above, Encrypting your SWF files also ensures that users are more likely to purchase your Flash based products/services, rather than spend the time to try and decompile or hack their way...
[May 7, 2008, 8:00]
Researchers warn of 'clickjacking' threat
News Grossman has said he will speak about clickjacking issues at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, later this month. While the concepts associated with clickjacking are not new, the two researchers said the specific...
[October 9, 2008, 13:22]
HTC Hero: First impressions
Blog Another hack at the event said he also saw a full-scale crash, but I missed that one. We'll have to get a review unit in to see how good the camera is - photography has not traditionally been HTC's strong point, though, and the 5MP camera on the...
[June 24, 2009, 17:31]
Evaluating the latest MicroSoft Cash Cow
Blog I just know that somebody is going to figure out a way to hack something together as malware and offer it as a gadget to Users. Copied it onto a USB flash drive. Then I realized that her computer doesn't have a DVD burner.
[May 8, 2009, 2:33]
Adobe patches SVG Viewer
News A more complicated hack could allow an attacker to remotely take over a vulnerable PC. SVG Viewer works as a plug-in for popular Web browsers to allow them to display images created in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, which is an open...
[October 8, 2003, 8:59]
Stolen e-passports 'worth millions' on black market
News The presence of so many potentially strong false identities would have a very high black-market value — perhaps in the range of £20m — and so a criminal enterprise would easily justify making the investment to hack the chip.
[July 30, 2008, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Blog These days, every hack with a laptop has a digital camera as well. Talk about a flash mob. Monday afternoon, 15/09/2003 This is more like it! Post-lift, the morning proved fun: a set of press briefings setting the scene.
[September 19, 2003, 18:25]
AOL communities get hacked again
News The ICQ homepage was defaced by the hacking group Innocent Boys, while a separate server ICQgroup01.icq.com was simultaneously attacked by the notorious Men in Hack (MiH) crackers who added a defaced page to the community page.
[June 29, 2001, 14:28]
Antipiracy battle moves to hardware Pt II
News This kind of architecture makes it possible to build applications where it's not feasible to modify or hack the software," said Olin Sibert, InterTrust's vice president of strategic technology. The group has created a technology called CPRM...
[March 23, 2001, 14:09]
Making Yahoo's platform more social
News At the recent Yahoo Open Hack Day about 300 developers got access to new 'social' APIs (application programming interfaces), which open up user address-book contacts, profile data, notifications and the 'vitality stream' (like Facebook's news feed...
[September 16, 2008, 15:10]
Music file flaws could threaten traders
News A bill sponsored by representative Howard Berman, a California Democrat, and Howard Coble, a North Carolina Republican, and introduced into the US House of Representatives in July, would allow copyright owners limited rights to hack into peer-to...
[December 19, 2002, 7:51]
'Mod' squad hacks away at Xbox
News FulgOre", who maintains a site with instructions on Xbox modification, said building a homemade hack isn't much more difficult than installing one of the prefab mod chips. Andy Green, a hardware tinkerer from Kettering, England, thinks he can do...
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
Arif Mohamed's Weekend Diary
News Ziff Towers is quiet today as many of the hacks have flown to Comdex, Las Vegas, which is why this weekend's hack diaries come to you from Martin and myself, not Rupert and Guy. Now it's time for this hack to hit the streets of London, the pub, a...
[November 16, 1996, 7:00]
Microsoft moves to block hybrid Vista
News While Thursday's update addresses only the "frankenbuild", Lazar said Microsoft is also working on a method to counteract the other hack, which uses virtualisation and Microsoft's Key Management Service.
[December 15, 2006, 8:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A few calls around the disreputable company of Brit Hack, and the man himself is tracked down. There are some numbers on that phone for people who have dropped out of my life, as much to flash up their names if they try and call me as for any other...
[February 25, 2005, 17:10]
Google fosters ties with developers
News As web applications become more functional, developer programmes have become important strategies for web properties such as Amazon, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo, which itself first hosted a Hack Day for developers last autumn.
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Microsoft's Mojave just a desert vista
Blog Comment Life is better now that I've swapped over to Mandriva who have nearly all the support required for a eee out of the box (with the usual minor Wifi issues) but I still had to hand hack xorg.conf to stop the stupid synaptics tap and drag stuff running.
[August 11, 2008, 16:30]
