A digital creative agency has cobbled together quite a digitally creative way to enable anyone in the office to skip over unwelcome songs that have been added to the company's shared Spotify playlist.
Brent Smith, hero to lazy people everywhere, has rigged his old exercise bike to work like a Super Nintendo controller, which he demonstrated by playing Super Mario Kart.
A security industry blog warned on Friday of a potentially “massive” data breach affecting as many as 10 million Visa and MasterCard accounts.
Hackers reportedly made off with Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog during a raid on Sony Music’s servers last year.
Hacking group Anonymous has apparently claimed credit for knocking the Central Intelligence Agency’s website offline.
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program exposes the pin number of a Google Wallet account within seconds.
The Boston Police Department seems to be taking the recent hacking of its community news website in stride; a video uploaded to YouTube pokes fun at the hack with several tongue-in-cheek interviews of Boston-area police officers.
Hackers claim to have breached the computer systems at Foxconn, the controversial electronics manufacturer headquartered in Taiwan that makes products for companies such as Apple, HP and several other large consumer electronics companies.
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.
Zappos.com has taken pains to assure customers that their credit card information is safe after a data breach, which was reported over the weekend, compromised information of up to 24 million customers, including names, mailing and billing addresses, phone numbers, truncated credit card numbers and “cryptographically scrambled” passwords. But one cybersecurity expert says consumers shouldn’t be complacent when it comes to how their online data is encrypted, stored and sometimes left vulnerable.
Some Apple blogs are reporting that copyright infringement is no longer required to install Siri on an iPhone 4. It’s a dubious claim, but even if it was true, it doesn’t bring us any closer to a practical, working hack.
