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I Want My Nua Mek 2...Yes, Hackers Watch TV Too

We’ve all been disappointed when a favorite show is canceled, be it Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks or, more recently, 666 Park Avenue (err…or is that just me?). But Thailand’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) got more than it bargained for when it made the fateful de ...

Posted 14 March 2013 by Slack Alice

tags: hacktivist, hacktivism

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It’s McAfee. James McAfee.

A game of high-stakes, technical espionage that targets the highest levels of government? A bevy of presumably beautiful female double agents? A nefarious foe bent on the destruction of the US, operating in the shadows under a cover of legitimacy? These are not the trappings of a new James Bond inst ...

Posted 05 March 2013 by Slack Alice

tags: James McAfee, Belize, terrorism, spyware, malware

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Brace Yourselves, Europe: The Lawyers are Coming

Peter Fleischer, an American in Paris who is also Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, knows a bit about privacy and law. Writing in his own blog, he has warned Europe to expect a litigious explosion in a few years, with the new EC data protection regulation expected to come into force in 2015. S ...

Posted 23 January 2013 by Slack Alice

tags: data protection, European Commission

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Pirates in the Cloud

The FBI takedown of Megaupload one year ago was a PR fiasco, and quite possibly, a practical disaster for law enforcement and rights holders. The image of armed police storming a private function and holding a pregnant woman (Dotcom’s partner) at gunpoint – and preventing her calling for ...

Posted 10 January 2013 by Slack Alice

tags: cloud computing, Megaupload, Pirate Bay, Kim Dotcom

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False Positives and the Disposition Matrix

The bane of databases is the false positive – the inclusion of an entry that shouldn’t be there. For anti-malware databases, false positives are inconvenient: good software is blocked because it is believed to be bad. For human databases it can be equally inconvenient: a false positive i ...

Posted 20 December 2012 by Slack Alice

tags: disposition matrix, terrorism

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Is Your Computer Photochromatic?

Earlier this year Google showed off its prototype for the long-awaited Google Glass, described as “a stamp-sized electronic screen mounted on the left side of a pair of eyeglass frames which can record video, access email and messages, and retrieve information from the Web.” The glasses ...

Posted 06 December 2012 by Slack Alice

tags: Google, Google Glass, memristors

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Apple’s Next Target? A Polish Grocer

Cult of Android, the online antidote to the online Cult of Mac, announced on September 13: “Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I was making this up, but unfortunately I’m not... They’ve actually filed a lawsuit against an online Polish grocery site…” The site’s Vincen ...

Posted 06 December 2012 by Slack Alice

tags: Apple, Cult of Android

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In Deep Space, No-one Can See You Surf

The web is often described as cyberspace. Hold that image, and then travel into deep space – the dark web. You might see what looks like Saturn, surrounded by rings. But look closer and you’ll find it’s a black hole protected by onion rings. Enter Tor (the name is an acronym for & ...

Posted 27 November 2012 by Slack Alice

tags: cyberspace, Tor, G Data, botnet

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What's the Main Cause of Movie Piracy?

The main cause of movie piracy, says Scientific American, is movie makers themselves. DVDs are dying primarily because phones, tablets, netbooks and many new laptops simply don’t have a DVD slot. But if that’s where people get their entertainment, then how are they to view movies? Strea ...

Posted 27 November 2012 by Slack Alice

tags: piracy

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How does Google use your information?

Following growing concerns on how the web giants Google are using it’s users information, they have launched Google Dashboard; a service which allows users with a Google account to view the information that Google has stored on them, It also allows users to delete any information that they wou ...

Posted 06 November 2009 by Slack Alice

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Ten Computer Hacks In The Movies

Some of the most successful blockbuster films released in the last two decades have been themed on the potential destruction that computer hackers can cause. Here are some of Hollywoods top hacking themed movies. Swordfish A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hac ...

Posted 29 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: movie computer hackers, hacks in the movies, hacking in films

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How the US military has weaponised hacking

“Our technological advantage is a key to America's military dominance. But our defence and military networks are under constant attack. Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have spoken of their desire to unleash a cyber attack on our country -- attacks that are harder to detect and ...

Posted 16 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: US military hacking, weaponised hacking

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How common is the hacking of secure wifi?

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Posted 16 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: Wifi Hacking, Secure wifi, Secure wireless internet

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Why Linux servers are more secure than Windows

The Linux/Windows debate is an oldie but a goodie, and there have been many long threads on most computer related forums discussing their relative merits. Linux is free, open-source and community based. Windows is expensive, professionally developed and has effectively held a monopoly over the sof ...

Posted 06 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: linux, it security, microsoft windows, servers

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Your password isn't safe - take this simple test to find out how many minutes it would take to crack

There's a well-known saying in information security that the weakest part of any computer system is the person using it. One area where this becomes abundantly clear is in the use of passwords. Allowing users to choose their own passwords can be fatal, with most people not having the first clue abou ...

Posted 06 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: online security, passwords, hacking

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When hacking is legal

The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives two different definitions of “hacker” related to computer security. A hacker is either “an expert at programming and solving problems with a computer” or “a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information ...

Posted 06 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: hacking

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Why retina scanning works better for James Bond than it ever would for us

Since the late 80s retinal scanning has been featured in a whole bevy of sci-fi and action films. It's been the security system of choice for some of the silver screen's top spies: James Bond used it in GoldenEye and Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible movies. As a result, whilst retinal scanning m ...

Posted 06 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: retina scanning, james bond

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Which famous Twitter accounts have been hacked?

Early in 2009, Twitter suffered two major security lapses. Once when a wave of highly successful phishing campaigns were successful in obtaining a lot of Twitter passwords, and then again when an 18 year old hacker and student of computer games development brute-force'd an administrator account. In ...

Posted 05 October 2009 by Slack Alice

tags: twitter, hacking, barack obama

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