Hacker articles

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  Beer-powered bending robot elected to DC school board by hackers

  By T.C. Sottek on March 2, 2012 04:49 pm + 27 comments

  In 2010 the DC school board challenged hackers to infiltrate its new web-based absentee voting Continue reading…

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  Foxconn attacked by hacker group, internal information released

  By Bryan Bishop on February 9, 2012 01:22 am + 55 comments

  Foxconn, which has come under fire due to allegations of poor working conditions in its factories, Continue reading…

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  Symantec source code hacker: we always planned to release the stolen code

  By Bryan Bishop on February 7, 2012 09:40 pm + 48 comments

  Protracted extortion negotiations with a hacker threatening to release stolen source code for Continue reading…

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  Symantec source code stolen: the extortion, investigation, and release

  By Bryan Bishop on February 7, 2012 08:39 pm

  The source code for several Symantec products was stolen in a network breach in 2006. A weeks-long Continue reading…

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  Symantec source code held by hackers in $50,000 extortion attempt, may have been released into the wild

  By Bryan Bishop on February 7, 2012 03:56 am + 7 comments

  The source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere and Norton AntiVirus products has been at the center of a Continue reading…

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  Peek update: over 2,000 devices shipped to hackers, more available in 20-unit packs

  By Chris Ziegler on February 6, 2012 03:18 pm + 26 comments

  Peek CEO Amol Sarva — whose devices have just gone dark for good — has been offering the Continue reading…

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  SEC filing reveals VeriSign was hacked numerous times in 2010, extent of damage unclear

  By Bryan Bishop on February 2, 2012 11:09 pm + 4 comments

  Reuters has discovered that Internet infrastructure company VeriSign was successfully attacked Continue reading…

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  Nook Tablet hack allows rooting from an SD card

  By David Pierce on January 28, 2012 10:38 am + 2 comments

  Though it's long been possible to root the Nook Tablet, it's always been a pretty (even crazily) Continue reading…

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  Symantec says it didn't know 2006 source code was stolen until now

  By Dante D'Orazio on January 26, 2012 11:42 pm + 15 comments

  Symantec has been scrambling to address a security breach from 2006 that revealed some of its source Continue reading…

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  Anonymous claims DOJ and record label site takedowns in response to Megaupload suit

  By Chris Ziegler on January 19, 2012 05:20 pm + 104 comments

  By all appearances, hacker group Anonymous isn't too happy with the Department of Justice's move to Continue reading…