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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Sony takes sites down after log-in exploit found

The sign-in for PlayStation Network on the Web was out of service this morning. Just days after most services for PlayStation Network were brought back online, it appears a new exploit has been discovered that allows hackers to change users' passwords with the data stolen during the break-in to the service last month.The Web sites that allow PSN users to sign in and reset their passwords have since been taken offline, as the...

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Relive the Early Days of the Internet at Telehack

Once upon at time before the age of HTML, the internet looked like a command prompt and a world of text. Telehack is a simulation site that recreates the early internet experience.How exactly does it recreate the experience? From the Telehack FAQ file:Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS’s the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection...

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Add Copy To / Move To to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a file, select Copy To Folder or Move To Folder, and the move to box will pop up and let you choose a location to either copy or move the file or folder to. Here’s the quick registry hack to get this working. As usual, back up your registry just in case. You will want to browse down to this key:HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlersOnce you are at that key,...

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Play Angry Birds in Your Favorite Browser (Web App, Website, and a Game Hack)

Are you ready to indulge in all of that Angry Birds goodness with your favorite browser? Then we have just what you need with information about the web app for Chromium-based browsers, accessing the game via website using your favorite browser, and a quick hack to unlock all of the levels.First we will start off with the app for Chromium-based browsers. While this is little more than a link to the official website it can be nice to have if you like...

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Don't fall for 'First Exposure: iPhone 5' Facebook scam

Facebook users are being duped into unwittingly spreading spam by clicking on what looks like a link to news entitled "First Exposure: iPhone 5." A version of the scam, exploiting peoples' interest in the next-generation iPhone, went around Facebook earlier this month, and it's back today with minor changes.The scam starts when you see someone in your social network comment on a link in a post that looks like it leads to a news story about...

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Yankees' error leaks personal data on 21,000 fans

A sales rep for the New York Yankees accidentally e-mailed a spreadsheet containing names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and seat numbers of more than 21,000 season ticket holders to thousands of clients, according to blog site Deadspin."There are no credit card numbers, but there are account ID numbers. And on Yankees.com, licensees need only their account ID number and password to access their accounts," the report said yesterday....

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Microsoft plugs critical hole in Windows

Microsoft today fixed a critical hole in Windows and two less serious holes in Office in one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent history.The critical bulletin, MS11-035, fixes a vulnerability in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) that "could allow remote code execution if a user received specially crafted malware on an affected system running the WINS service," according to the bulletin advisory. It affects Windows Server 2003 and...

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French researchers demo attack on Chrome

French security firm Vupen said today its team has figured out a way to bypass security measures in Chrome and offers a video demo it says is a successful attack against the browser running on a Windows machine."We are (un)happy to announce that we have officially Pwnd Google Chrome and its sandbox," the Vupen Security blog said. "The exploit shown in this video is one of the most sophisticated codes we have seen and created so far as it bypasses all security features including ASLR [Address Space Layout Randomization]/DEP [Data Execution...

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Facebook plugs third-party access to user accounts

Tokens are like "spare keys" that Facebook users grant to applications that allow them to perform actions on their behalf or access their profile Facebook has plugged a hole that was inadvertently providing advertisers and other third parties access to user accounts via tokens that serve as "spare keys," Symantec said today after disclosing the problem to the social-networking company."Facebook was notified of this issue and has confirmed this...

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Google testing new search results pages?

When it comes to change, sometimes it's hard to believe in. And sometimes it's just hard to believe your eyes.Some people have begun to notice that their Google search pages look different from those they had come to know, love, and take for granted.Suddenly, the pages seem cleaner. Suddenly, there's more white space. And suddenly the colors are greener and the underlinings beneath each search result have disappeared.Naturally, this has led to troubling...

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USB puppet by Availabot

Here's a USB device from Availabot that jumps up when your buddy comes online on IM, and goes down when he/she goes offline!&nb...

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µTorrent 3.0 Beta Released

Finally, the long-awaited beta build of µTorrent 3.0 is released. The client comes packed with lots of new features and updates, among which there are ratings, speed streaming, and even portability options, which means that the client would create the best user experience ever. BitTorrent Inc. recently announced the release of the 3.0 beta version of the client, and its new updates will please a lot of users who were waiting long for secure remote...

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ONBUX-The Best PTC site in the World

ONBUX,one of the owsum PTC site that i have came across.It pays in real with 2$ minimum cashout.Till now onbux has paid me 2$ nd referral packs are also very cheap.A lot of cheap upgrading packages.Do chk guys!!! Register on ONBUX through this link http://www.onbux.com/?rh=ca89e790e56f5c7bfb725b47c69bb2...

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Football (Soccer) Customization Set

Whether you follow the game at an international level, play in a local league of your own, or just play for fun, football (soccer) is an awesome game to be involved in. Now you can bring the passion and excitement of the game straight to your desktop with our Football (Soccer) Customization set. Icon PacksDownload Link:http://rapidshare.com/files/450075038/soccer_icons_by_TwistXp.zipExtract the zip folder and then use the icons. Applying Icons If...

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