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An odd message on Mark Zuckerberg’s fan page racked up over 1,800 likes and over 400 comments before the hacked post was removed, TechCrunch reports. Here’s what it said:
“Let the hacking begin: i facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, wh…
You may remember early last summer when the brand new iPad 3G ended up being a bit of an embarrassment for AT&T thanks to a security exploit. Some industrious hackers managed to use a brute force attack to extract user email addresses and names. No…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a controversial security report (PDF) on Monday in which the organization said “it is unlikely that there will ever be a true cyberware.” In the report, its authors Peter Sommer…
Deleting your browser cookies is supposed to throw websites off your trail, but that isn’t always the case. All a determined website has to do is drop a backup cookie into Adobe Flash’s local storage, so unless you clean that out as well, they can stil…
Vodafone believes its customer database was compromised from an employee or dealer sharing the access password, giving the recipient access to the personal details of millions of customers, ABC News in Australia reports.
“It appears to have been a one-…
California’s highest court leaned on old U.S. Supreme Court cases to rule that police can confiscate a cell phone from a suspect right after he’s arrested and sift through text messages looking for evidence, and do so without first obtaining a warrant,…
China believes it’s been making progress in censoring lewd content from the Web. Since launching an aggressive crackdown in December 2009, China has shut down over 60,000 porn websites, according to the country’s state-run Xinhua News agency.
“Our camp…
Honda and its customers are the latest victims of a data breach tied to email marketing firm Silverpop Systems, AllThingsD.com reports.
Silverpop Systems is the same company that failed to protect McDonald’s customer data when a group of hackers recent…