Has dating site eHarmony been hacked? Well, it depends on which eHarmony you mean, apparently. Rumors of a security breach at the site first surfaced yesterday, but eHarmony was quick to reassure its members that it was not the actual eHarmony dating site that had been attacked, but instead an ancillary site called eHarmony Advice. The …
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Hacker Pleads Guilty To Stealing $12 Million Of Virtual Money
If it were real money, it’d be an impressive haul: A 29 year old British businessman plead guilty this week to stealing $12 million worth of virtual poker chips over four months, managing to sell a portion of them for $86,000.
Ashley Mitchell hacked the servers of online game Zynga Poker at some point between June 30th and September …
London Stock Exchange May Have Been Hacked Last Year
Computerworld is reporting that the London Stock Exchange may have been hacked in August of last year as it prepared to switch its systems from Microsoft’s .Net platform to a Linux-based platform. It’s once again preparing to attempt the same switchover this month.
According to the article:
“There were major problems on the exchange
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Latest PS3 Firmware Update Blocks “Call of Duty” Hackers
If you downloaded the new PS3 firmware 3.56 update and you happened to, um, tweak the Call of Duty: Black Ops game to boost your stats, you might have found yourself among the angry people who had their account blocked.
It seems to be part of Sony’s promise to crack down on piracy; last weeks Xbox 360 firmware 3.56 update blocked …
Two Men Charged For Stealing iPad Users’ Personal Info
Remember early June? Summer nights, trendy flip flops, drinks on restaurant patios, etc.? June 10th shattered all those fuzzy feelings with news of a massive security breach affecting iPad 3G owners. “Shattered” might be a bit overdramatic, but let’s just go with it in the interest of moving the story along.
The short and skinny …
Should Customers Have The Right To “Hack” Their Consoles?
For every video game console, there’s been dozens – no hundreds – of gamers who’ve tried to hack the system. The ability to mod your own device is part of the fun for some avid players who want to be available to install other operating systems, run homebrew (user-produced software that runs on systems not meant to run consumer-created …
Despite Being Cracked, Mac App Store Hits One Million (Legal) Downloads
Even though Apple’s new app store is only approaching its second day, hackers claim they’ve already cracked it. Members of Hackulous, who became famous for cracking the Apple DRM, have developed “Kickback,” a program that will allow you to download apps for free from the Mac App Store, according to Gadgets DNA.The catch is it won’t be …
4Chan Taken Down By Hackers For 24 Hours
You may not have noticed, but the landscape of the internet underwent a surprising – and potentially dangerous – change yesterday with the news that 4Chan had been temporarily taken down by hackers.
The site was slow-to-impossible to load for around 24 hours, with the DDoS seemingly confirmed via 4Chan’s twitter yesterday
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How to Check If Your Gawker Password Has Been Stolen
Were you affected by the big Gawker hack that broke out over the weekend? Me too, man. Me too. It is what it is (and other comforting remarks).
Slate has created a handy tool to see if your Gawker password is among the 185,000+ out there for the whole world to see. Simply enter your e-mail address and you may or may not get the …
Gawker Sites Hacked, Staff & Commenting Passwords Released
Blog empire Gawker Media was under siege this weekend as a group of hackers gained access to the company’s servers.
(More on Techland: Who Are The WikiLeaks Hacktivists?)
Hackers who identify themselves as part of the group Gnosis not only hacked into flagship site Gawker, but also its sister sites Gizmodo, io9, Jezebel, …
Operation Payback: Who Are the WikiLeaks ‘Hactivists’?
A hacking group simply identifying itself as “Anonymous” has taken credit for a recent string of high-profile cyber attacks against the websites of businesses, banks and politicians that have either spoken out against or stopped doing business with whistleblowing site, WikiLeaks.
Since Monday of this week, targets have included Swiss …
Behind the Hack: How 4Chan Gamed the Time 100
Marblecake, also the game.
Yeah, last year’s Time 100 poll was an interesting venture here in the office, most notably because we discovered we were had. Followers of 4Chan founder Moot, aka Christopher Poole, manipulated the votes using a special coding and then continued to deliver a message using the first letters of the names in …
