Suspected LulzSec member arrested by FBI for Sony Pictures hack.

A man suspected of hacking into computer systems belonging to Sony Pictures, and stealing the personal information and passwords of thousands of innocent internet users, has been arrested by the FBI. 20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera, of Tempe, Arizona, is said to have been involved in the Sony hack last year that exposed online the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of people who had entered Sony contests...

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Symantec's Norton AntiVirus source code exposed by hackers.

Symantec, the makers of Norton AntiVirus, has confirmed that a hacking group has gained access to some of the security product's source code.An Indian hacking group, calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja, has threatened to publicly disclose the source code on the internet.So far, there have been two claims related to Symantec's source code.First, a document claiming to be confidential information related to Norton AntiVirus's source code was posted...

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Who Was the First Hacker?

New Scientist has recently revealed the name of the world's first hacker, who managed to discover a security hole in Marconi's wireless telegraph and managed to show the inventor up. It turned out that a stage magician named Nevil Maskelyn wrecked a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph over a century ago, in 1903, – he sent insults in Morse code down the wire. The crowd was really amused when the physicist John Ambrose Fleming has been adjusting...

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How to Combine Rescue Disks to Create the Ultimate Windows Repair Disk.

To create the rescue disk, you’re going to want a USB flash drive with a decent amount of space—for our purposes, 2 GB is the minimum size, but you’d be better off with something a little bigger if you want to put a lot of repair disks on it, especially the larger ones. Once you’ve picked out your drive, the first thing you’ll need to do? Format your drive as FAT32. That’s right, the software we’re going to use requires the FAT32 file system,...

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Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers.

This is the Visa debit card Facebook is giving to some security researchers for reporting bugs. A few companies pay money to bug hunters. But Facebook is giving out something more unique than just a check. Some security researchers are getting a customized "White Hat Bug Bounty Program" Visa debit card. The researchers, who can make thousands of dollars for reporting just one security hole on the social-networking site, can use the card to...

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Anonymous targets military-gear site in latest holiday hack.

On Christmas Day the target was security think tank Strategic Forecasting, or Stratfor. This time it was SpecialForces.com, a Web site that sells military gear.  Specialforces.com "Continuing the week long celebration of wreaking utter havoc on global financial systems, militaries, and governments, we are announcing our next target: the online piggie supply store SpecialForces.com," the group wrote in a Pastebin posting today.  ...

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How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked Into Rival ConnectU In 2004.

ConnectU Founder's This is the story of how, in the summer of 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into a Facebook rival called ConnectU, whose founders had accused him of stealing their idea to build Facebook.  The details of this story were developed from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook.  The investigation included interviews with more than a dozen sources over two years, as well as what we believe to be relevant IMs and...

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Hacker who bypassed Facebook security pleads guilty.

A British student has pleaded guilty to charges that he breached security at Facebook earlier his year, despite arguing that his intentions were not malicious. York computer science student Glenn Steven Mangham, 26, attempted to bypass security on the company's internal systems, raising alarm amongst the FBI that industrial espionage was occurring, according to media reports. Mangham, who had previously been rewarded by Yahoo for finding vulnerabilities...

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