Time to Hack (Page 18)

Bin Laden Video Is a Virus, FBI Warns

[![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uMVE5sLtt-k/TcRNQ4NSevI/AAAAAAAAADA/O3bAmXXpdbg/s200/Osama-bin-laden-dead.jpg)](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uMVE5sLtt-k/TcRNQ4NSevI/AAAAAAAAADA/O3bAmXXpdbg/s1600/Osama-bin-laden-dead.jpg) The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation [warned computer users Tuesday](http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/malicious-software-features-usama-bin-laden-links-to-ensnare-unsuspecting-computer-users) that messages claiming to include photos and

USB stick-sized computer runs web, email, costs $25

[![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aF3hT7USHU4/TcRL_Zd_2nI/AAAAAAAAAC8/k4em-PaJLyk/s320/mw-630-usb-pc.jpg)](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aF3hT7USHU4/TcRL_Zd_2nI/AAAAAAAAAC8/k4em-PaJLyk/s1600/mw-630-usb-pc.jpg) Renowned U.K. game developer [David Braben](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Braben) set his game programming aside for a short

Sony Online Entertainment loses account details of 24.6 million customers

[![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s7O6hsVnHEs/TcA93P9p6XI/AAAAAAAAAWU/GP1wEAPsVwo/s320/mw-630-soe-storm-630w.jpg)](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s7O6hsVnHEs/TcA93P9p6XI/AAAAAAAAAWU/GP1wEAPsVwo/s1600/mw-630-soe-storm-630w.jpg) If you thought a massive data breach of the PlayStation Network was as bad as news could get for Sony, think again. This morning’s shutdown

Cybercriminals Exploit PDF Picture Filter to Embed Malware

[![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nU7X_pDQ_B8/Tbz8SsDTt0I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/JGYkzv-22O4/s200/pdf-virus.jpeg)](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nU7X_pDQ_B8/Tbz8SsDTt0I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/JGYkzv-22O4/s1600/pdf-virus.jpeg) Avast! Virus Lab has discovered a dirty trick that cybercriminals are using to encode malware exploits and payloads into PDF files. Avast!

camera

World's Smallest Camera

Say hello to the World’s tiniest camera. At just 1mm-wide, 1mm long, and 1.5mm tall, it’s smaller than a typical match head, and it lives on a single silicon chip

security

Second computer worm hits Iran

Iran has been hit with new malicious software as part of cyber attacks against the country, a military officer told Mehr news agency on Monday without specifying the target.

hacking

Sony accepts Officially: PlayStation Network Hacked

When Sony’s PlayStation Network was taken offline three days ago, all eyes fell on the Anonymous group, who’ve taken a dislike to Sony over its treatment of hardware hacker George Hotz.

Google fined $5 million in Linux patent case

[![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n_oBCZiUgtY/TbHiZ37U7-I/AAAAAAAAAWA/kPfwEO-9Wa8/s200/android_logo-w480-h400.jpg)](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n_oBCZiUgtY/TbHiZ37U7-I/AAAAAAAAAWA/kPfwEO-9Wa8/s1600/android_logo-w480-h400.jpg) In a move that could have wide repercussions in the technology industry, A Texas jury has fined technology giant Google $5 million

Georgia hacker caught with 675K credit card accounts

[![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4prPXJgZBc/TbCa64aYXuI/AAAAAAAAAV8/W-H2PHyufwo/s200/credit-card.jpg)](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4prPXJgZBc/TbCa64aYXuI/AAAAAAAAAV8/W-H2PHyufwo/s1600/credit-card.jpg) A computer hacker from Georgia pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and identity theft after authorities found more than 675,000 stolen credit card accounts on his

Google to Offer Cloud Service for Digital Maps

[![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SkUgQSpBAZI/Ta9DEHAz0RI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Mu1wFokkmrE/s1600/070529fd_googleworld.jpg)](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SkUgQSpBAZI/Ta9DEHAz0RI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Mu1wFokkmrE/s1600/070529fd_googleworld.jpg)Google will open up to third parties its digital maps infrastructure so that enterprise organizations can use it to store and serve up geospatial

Samsung

Seagate to buy Samsung's hard disk drive business

Seagate is buying the hard disk drive business of Samsung in a $1.38 billion

wordpress

WordPress Hacked, Source Code Stolen

Servers belonging to Automattic, which makes the popular WordPress blogging software, say that their servers were hacked and that the company’s source code is believed to have been “exposed and copied,” according to a company blog post Wednesday The post, by Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s co-founder, said that the

Open Source

Oracle Gives up on Commercial Open Office

Oracle announced that it will no longer sell a commercial version of the Open Office, & it will be “a purely community-based open-source project.”

google

Google adding malware warning system to Chrome

Google has announced a new security feature for its Chrome Web browser aimed at preventing users from unwittingly downloading malicious files from Internet

trojan

BlackBerry phones hit by ZeuS Trojan virus

ZeuS Trojan has be discovered which specifically targeting BlackBerry users. And it aims to monitor users’ private information especially when they conduct mobile banking.

Celebrating 20 Years of Linux

[![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-npZA7bSaypk/TZ1MtRNASOI/AAAAAAAAACo/mw0xMaLVKjg/s200/lf_linux20_webbadge.png)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-npZA7bSaypk/TZ1MtRNASOI/AAAAAAAAACo/mw0xMaLVKjg/s1600/lf_linux20_webbadge.png) You’ve come a long way, Tux the Penguin.The Linux Foundation is celebrating 20 years of the famous FOSS operating system,

New Servers Feature Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 Processors

[![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g1y4bLuP0LE/TZxcp2hr7nI/AAAAAAAAACk/n2dS_mqwFQs/s200/new_Xeon-E7-Line.jpg)](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g1y4bLuP0LE/TZxcp2hr7nI/AAAAAAAAACk/n2dS_mqwFQs/s1600/new_Xeon-E7-Line.jpg) Top manufacturers including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Cray have announced new high-end servers sporting Intel’s 10-core Xeon E7 series of chips,

EMC's anti-hacking division hacked

[![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tphWMtdHi6M/TYLJ_gLLRwI/AAAAAAAAAVk/OLpRHx0f55E/s200/EMC.jpg)](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tphWMtdHi6M/TYLJ_gLLRwI/AAAAAAAAAVk/OLpRHx0f55E/s1600/EMC.jpg) The world’s biggest maker of data storage computers on Thursday said that its security division has been hacked, and that the intruders compromised a widely

New Linux Kernel Goes Faster

[ ![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-eUbrGjnG5KM/TYIECPxJtjI/AAAAAAAAACg/bAf_1RPg-vU/s200/kernel-icc.png)](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-eUbrGjnG5KM/TYIECPxJtjI/AAAAAAAAACg/bAf_1RPg-vU/s1600/kernel-icc.png) The newest update to the Linux operating-system kernel features a number of enhancements that should offer a performance boost, particularly for running databases and other programs

0-day

Adobe Flash Hit with Zero-Day Exploit

Adobe has published a security advisory in response to a critical flaw found in Flash Player on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android

vulnerability

Internet Explorer Used to Exploit Windows MHTML Vulnerability

The way IE parses MHTML (method to combine multiple files & HTML content into a single file) is vulnerable & targeting users in “drive-by” browser attack

google

Google upgrades search with user-customized block lists

Users can customize their results by blocking specific URLs from ever showing up in their searches again.

technology

'Anti-laser' built for first time

An anti-laser – which absorbs light rather than emitting it – has been built for the first time.

microsoft

Microsoft to give Kinect hackers development kits

When the Kinect was first released, it enjoyed a relatively short and blissful window of tamper free life before the first reports of Kinects being hacked flooded in. The hands-free controller managed to remain unspoiled for a whole week before the first reports of Kinect hacks began, and once the

Google Docs Viewer Now Handles 12 More File Types

[![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZ4ozaeTIio/TWApmTBtM5I/AAAAAAAAAU8/3m-vqMURWA4/s200/google_docs_viewer.jpg)](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZ4ozaeTIio/TWApmTBtM5I/AAAAAAAAAU8/3m-vqMURWA4/s1600/google_docs_viewer.jpg) The Google Docs Viewer just got a whole lot more useful. Now, it lets you view more than just PDFs, Microsoft Word