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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]
SCO Web Site Attacked Again
News In a hack that began sometime before 0530 PST Monday, someone placed a graphic atop SCO's home page that read "we own all your code" and "pay us all your money". Monday's hack is the latest in a string of attacks launched against SCO.
[November 29, 2004, 16:00]
Grand Theft Auto, The High-tech Way
News Nowadays, decrypting one 40-bit code sequence can not only disengage the security system and unlock the doors, it can also start the car - making the hack tempting for thieves. But if you think that such a hack might occur only in a pristine...
[May 8, 2006, 15:10]
News Roundup: Microsoft Source Code Stolen
News Report: Experts think MS hack was industrial espionage Mon, 30 Oct FT report suggests that Microsoft hack was motivated by profit MS hack from employees' computer? Fri, 27 Oct Microsoft's chief executive says the hack of his company's computer...
[October 27, 2000, 15:56]
Mirosoft Patches Hotmail Security Flaw
News What's more, exploiting the hack to view someone's account doesn't require any computer proficiency -- only a browser and the ability to type in a user name. The hack apparently exploited a glitch that let Hotmail accept users as valid without...
[August 31, 1999, 8:25]
White Hats Expose VoIP Security Threat
News McAfee said that its antivirus software had not picked up the hack in the demonstration because the hack was proof-of-concept. Very specialised, small shell code, just bits and bytes, is inserted into a SIP message," Joglekar said.
[August 7, 2007, 17:49]
Flaw Found In Apple Bug-fix Tool
News A remote hack is also possible, according to Landon Fuller, the open-source developer leading the MOAF project who has been relying on APE for his work. However, Fuller responded by emphasising that it was only a proof-of-concept flaw, and arguing...
[January 9, 2007, 16:12]
Low-tech Trick Gives Free ITunes
News Technology buffs were buzzing over the Pepsi "hack" this week. The "hack" was also spoofed in a fake security posting to the influential Bugtraq security mailing list. It doesn't take a code breaker or a math whiz to lift songs from Apple Computer...
[February 20, 2004, 8:29]
British Man To Be Extradited For US Military Hacks
News The US Attorney's office also indicted McKinnon on seven counts of unauthorised access and damage to computer systems for his hack of nearly 100 computers, mainly military systems. Authorities from that province filed charges against the FBI for...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
Dmitry Employer On Copyright Crusade
News Although he couldn't comment extensively about the case on the advice of his attorneys, Katalov emphasised that his company wasn't founded to help people hack e-books. Katalov bristles at allegations his company was merely trying to make money off...
[April 30, 2002, 9:47]
Script Kiddies Learn Grown-up Hacking Techniques
Talkback Form/search string validation should take into account any possible hack and code in defenses to obviate them. SQL Injection is not a problem if the application developer has coded the application not to trust the queries it receives.
[January 17, 2005, 12:14]
Microsoft Rejects IBM Strategy And Open Source 'dorks'
Talkback The fact that a program's source code is available for virtually anyone to hack on can give software a longer useful lifespan. Open source can be an advantage even to end users. How many times has a commercia vendor dropped a product even though...
[November 15, 2005, 19:18]
Researcher Details Dutch E-passport Hack
News The researcher who claims to have created code that can emulate and clone e-passports has given details of the purported hack. At present, the code only works with blank JCOP v4.1 72k smartcards, manufactured by various smartcard suppliers...
[October 2, 2008, 13:17]
Researcher To Demo Intel Chip Attack
News Kris Kaspersky said this week he will present the findings of CPU malware-detection research, funded by Endeavor Security, at the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October. Intel chips contain serious flaws that can be...
[July 16, 2008, 11:31]
Thanks For The Heads Up
Talkback Thank you for alerting us to this hack. I spoke to developer Paul Battley, and he explained why and how he had written the code. Hi dogstar, The story is at http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39366057,00.htm.
[March 14, 2008, 16:21]
Yankee Group Slams 'Linux Extremists'
Talkback Laura DiDioT has been shilling for Microsoft since her journalistic hack career was incepted. She signed the NDA with SCO and told the world how Linux was SCO's code. Taming of the DiDioT Shill Even though she knew nothing about either.
[April 8, 2005, 10:33]
Protect VBA Code
Downloads Non-experts can not hack the password with a hex editor. Protect VBA Code protects VBA projects from password cracking in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and Project files.
[September 24, 2008, 18:31]
Source Code Retriever
Downloads It can be very practical if you try to work out some JavaScript hack its or just don't want to be annoyed with advertisement. With this program you can retrieve the source code or the header of a Web page easily, fast, and without a browser.
[June 2, 2005, 14:46]
Sony Reacts Quickly To Game Hack
News A duping bug is a hack that exploits a weakness in online games' code to dublicate existing items to effectively create counterfeit currency or other goods. Sony claims that a group of hackers illegally created a huge amount of Everquest II (EQ2...
[August 12, 2005, 18:00]
HackBar
Downloads It is not a tool for executing standard exploits and it will not teach you how to hack a site. Its main purpose is to help a developer do security audits on his code. Hackbar is a simple security audit / penetration test tool.
[September 26, 2007, 10:27]
