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Steam hit by hack attack
The online game download service Steam has been hit by a major attack from a group of hackers who are rumoured to have accessed databases containing credit card and ID details. Steam is a service that allows users to…
Mark Zuckerberg gets "F'raped": Is no-one safe from Facebook privacy flaws?
Mark Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire king of the Facebook empire, had his own personal fan page attacked last night, calling further into question the security of the world's largest social networking site. The hacker left the following status update whilst under…
Top Tory MP's blog, Twitter and Facebook hacked
Hackers have yesterday wreaked havoc with the Facebook, Twitter and blog accounts of Therese Coffey, Conservative candidate for Suffolk Coastal. Explicit messages were sent from Coffey's accounts, with some grim remarks made about Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife….
Spotify gets hacked
Revolutionary digital music streaming service Spotify has revealed a serious security breach that affected its servers before December 19th last year. The company thought that it had managed to fix it before any damage was done, but last week Spotify found out that “a group” of some sort had managed to gain access to information necessary to guess passwords.
Although security breaches are par for the course at most internet startups, so far Spotify had managed to avoid them. It’s almost a rite of passage for new companies. The company is recommending that anyone who hasn’t changed their password since December 19th to change it immediately, and is emailing all its users to that effect.
Official Spotify Blog
Oyster card hacked – details being published in October. Free travel for all!
The Oyster system could go into meltdown this October, after a court ruling found it’s OK for details of its security failures to be made public.
NXP, the company behind the Oyster technology, had applied for an injunction against a group of Dutch technology experts, who worked out how to hack Oyster cards back in June. The judge has now overturned this injunction, so the Dutch hacking masters (Prof Bart Jacobs and his team…
Don't go to (click on) Hong Kong – one-in-five .hk domain names are scams
Fear-spreader and paranoia-monger McAfee has raised panic levels of internet browsers to DEFCON 2 today, with its latest guidance on web sites that will do bad things to your computer when/if you visit them.
And it’s the Hong Kong domains – web sites ending in .hk – that are the biggest causers of trouble. Trouble like having pornography set as your home page, trouble like…
WiiPlayer – a hacked and streamlined unofficial iPlayer app for Wii
Some extremely clever man has been working away on improving the Wii’s iPlayer, creating his own solution to the rather clunky and slow official Wii implementation of the Beeb’s streaming telly service.
Moaning that the Wii’s slightly duff Opera browser simply hasn’t got the right screen resolution to handle the BBC’s default text and layout, the creator has simplified the design, bumped up the font size and generally “Apple-ised” the look and feel of iPlayer so it’s quicker to operate and easier to find your way around…
Man gets Windows Vista running on his Asus Eee PC
See? It can be done!
The secret is, apparently, whacking a huge SD card into the Eee PC’s expansion slot and letting Vista use that for its special needs rather than the rather limited file space available on the Eee PC’s solid-state drive.
He’s even..
Kindle gets hacked in near record time
It’s the ultimate geek race. A thing comes out and the gloves are off to see who can crack the thing first.
And Kindle has fallen, mere weeks after arriving in the US. A clever man called Igor Skochinsky pulled off the trick, managing to get Kindle…
Eee PC 4G hacked – man adds 16GB "hard drive" and Bluetooth
The 16GB hard drive is actually a 16GB Corsair USB memory stick stuck in the Eee PC’s little underside expansion port, and the Bluetooth functionality is the internal bits of a Microsoft Bluetooth dongle.
The full details of what he did to the poor little laptop…
