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Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police | #CybersecurityAn Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC's Four Corners program, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police computer system. Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police
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Who checking your telephone/email records?According to an article published in the Telegraph, councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day in the UK. The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, ...
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Pressure on Obama to move fast on cybersecurity appointment | #Cybersecurity, #ObamaComputerworld - Melissa Hathaway's resignation from her role as acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council is likely to increase the pressure on the Obama administration to quickly appoint someone to serve as the White House cybersecurity coordinator. Pressure ...
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SemiAccurate :: News for the Everygeek | #Apple, #SecurityAPPLE KEYBOARDS ARE vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the keyboard. This could be a serious problem, and now that the presentation and code is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploiting it. SemiAccurate :: News for the Everygeek
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Slashdot | Generating Fast MD5 Collisions With ATI Video Cards | #ATI, #MD5An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday at Black Hat USA 2009, a talk entitled MD5 Chosen-Prefix Collisions on GPUs ( whitepaper) (Both PDFs) presented an implementation written in assembly language for ATI video cards that achieves 1.6 billion MD5 hash/sec, or 2.2 billion MD5 hash/sec with ...
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Five technologies Iran is using to censor the Web | #Security, #Privacy, #IranOne month after a disputed presidential election sparked widespread unrest in Iran, the country's government has initiated a cyber-crackdown that is challenging hackers across the globe to find new ways to help keep Iranian dissidents connected to the Web. While the government's initial ...
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Cyberattacks Jam Government and Commercial Web Sites in U.S. and South Korea - NYTimes.com | #[South Korea]SEOUL, South Korea — A wave of cyberattacks aimed at 27 American and South Korean government agencies and commercial Web sites temporarily jammed more than a third of them over the past five days, and several sites remained stalled or extremely slow on Wednesday. Cyberattacks Jam Government ...
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Technology Review: iPhone Hackers Get a BreakIn March, the organizers of a computer-security conference called CanSecWest challenged attendees to break into any one of five smart phones, among them Apple's popular iPhone. The perceived difficulty of the task--especially breaking into the iPhone--meant that few researchers made any attempt ...
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Slashdot | Apple Finally Patches Java Vulnerability | #Java, #Vulnerabilities" Apple has finally addressed the Java vulnerability that nearly everyone else patched months ago. Available now for OS X 10.4 and 10.5, and through Apple's Software Update service, this update patches a flaw in the Java Virtual Machine that could potentially allow a malicious Java applet to ...
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Microsoft Bing, discovery engine or porn engine?Only days after it launch microsoft bing is being used to by pass proxy servers and filtering options to view explicit material. Microsoft have reacted by redirecting all explicit material through the explicit.microsoft.net url, which can be filtered by it departments and parents alike.
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