January 4th, 2012 
Tyler A flaw has been found in WiFi Protected Setup that indicates that most home and small business routers could be giving away free WiFi. On December 27th, the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (what a mouthful, or handful if you’re typing ) issued a warning about a vulnerability. This vulnerability was in [...]
December 26th, 2011 Tyler A band of Romanian hackers have been stealing credit card data from hundreds of small businesses, as well as more than 150 Subway restaurant franchises and at least 50 other small retailers. Using the point-of-sale (POS) systems, these businesses practically left their drawers open, so to speak, letting the hackers ring up over $3 million [...]
November 21st, 2011 Tyler Phrases such as “beat your meat,” “fairy,” and “lovegun” are among the lists of words banned in text messages by the Pakistani Telecommunication Authority. On November 14th, phone companies operating in the Islamic country were handed the list of words with a letter explaining that they have to block those words on their networks within [...]
November 17th, 2011 Tyler On Friday, Anonymous’ Operation AntiSec published the private e-mails of a California Department of Justice investigator. The hackers have posted the 38,000 e-mails in a Gmail account that appears to belong to Alfredo “Fred” Baclagan, a California Department of Justice special agent supervisor in charge of computer crime investigations. They published these to a hidden [...]
November 14th, 2011 Tyler A Romanian hacker, aged 26, has now been arrested for hacking computer systems at NASA. This news comes from the release from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT). Robert Butyka was this Romanian, and he is being charged with breaking into NASA servers starting in December of 2010. For some reason, [...]
November 11th, 2011 Tyler Valve’s Steam has been hacked, and with it comes the possible compromising of users’ credit card numbers and personal information. The hacks were confirmed by Gabe Newell, head of Valve. These hackers gained access to a database where encrypted information was stored, but Valve isn’t sure if the hackers took the information or if they [...]
November 7th, 2011 Tyler There is quite the vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons. What seems to be straight from a movie, this exploit could allow an intelligent hacker to remotely take over the prison. The hacker would be able to open and overload cell door mechanisms as well as shut down the [...]
November 4th, 2011 Tyler While we knew that Anonymous took down a Tor-based child pornography host and many had mixed feelings on whether it was right or wrong, Anonymous has once again thrived to be “successful.” Police and FBI officials were degrading the actions of Anonymous because it “interfered with possible ongoing investigations.” Well, the Anon “hacktivist” group has [...]
September 26th, 2011 Tyler A security firm has reported that the MySQL.com website has been taken over and being nearly held “hostage” by hackers. Recent visitors to MySQL.com may have downloaded something that was not the database software that they thought it was. It is advised that if you have downloaded anything from MySQL.com within the last week, you [...]
September 21st, 2011 Tyler This Friday, two security researchers are going to present a hacking tool that will change the way we surf the internet. They claim that their tool can decrypt secure Web requests to sites using the TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0 protocol as well as SSL 3.0. This will allow a person or program to receive, [...]
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