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Security Expert Brian Krebs Faced A Real-Life SWATing After Posting About Russian Cybercrime Site

March 18, 2013

Security writer Brian Krebs’ phone was spoofed and a SWAT team was called to his home last week by hackers who apparently took offense at his investigations into various online hacking organizations. His website also suffered a denial of service attack for a short period. The attacks came after Krebs wrote about a site called…

GitHub Hit With Another DDoS Attack, Second In Two Days, And “Major Service Outage” [Update]

March 10, 2013

By Arne Ruhnau

Services on code-sharing site GitHub have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a “major service outage” because of a “brief DDoS attack.” This is the second DDoS attack in as many days and at least the third in the last several months: Yesterday, GitHub also reported a DDoS incident. And in…

No Winning Exploit Found For Chrome OS At Annual Hacking Competition, Pwnium 3

March 8, 2013

By Arne Ruhnau

Google’s operating system Chrome OS survived all attempts to hack it at this year’s Pwnium 3 competition, which took place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC this week. Google, which was offering up $3.14159 million in prize money (get it, Pi money?), said that there was no winning entry, but it was in the process…

Hackers target 15 Lebanese government websites, calling for better living standards

April 17, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

15 Lebanese governmental sites were taken down this morning by a group of hackers identifying themselves as, “Raise Your Voice,” Reuters reports. The 15 websites, which Now Lebanon describes as “redundant”, all featured the same message, calling for an improvement in living standards, and for the Lebanese government to bring an end to electricity and…

London Real-time hack event ends with exhausted and innovative winners

April 15, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

On Friday we reported the start of the Real-time London event taking place at White Bear Yard. The event saw GoSquared provide participants with APIs from Amazon Web Services, Geckoboard, RabbitMQ, Twilio and Pusher to make something cool in just one weekend. This evening that drew to a close with creative, but exhausted competitors gathered to show off what they made…

Microsoft India backtracks, hack may have exposed customer credit card details after all

February 27, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

Microsoft has performed an about-turn in India and revealed that a recent hack of its online store may have compromised credit card details belonging to customers in the country. When the Microsoft India Store was hacked earlier this month, the company emailed its customers to assure them that “databases storing credit card details and payment information were…

Announcing the Hack Battle at The Next Web Conference 2012

February 22, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

For those of you attending the TNW2012 conference, the 25th of April will probably mark a day of travelling, checking in to your hotel, getting in the mood at the pre-conference party and mentally preparing for your upcoming two days of doing business. On that very same day however, The Next Web and its developer…

Mejorando.la Conference will land in Mexico to discuss the future of web design

February 16, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

It is still time to register for the latest edition of Mejorando.la Conference, which will take place in Mexico City on February 24th and 25th. As you may remember, Mejorando.la is one of our favorite Latin American podcasts. Co-hosted by Freddy Vega and Christian van der Henst, it focuses on spreading the word about new technologies among Spanish speakers.…

Sun staff arrested in UK police inquiry

February 11, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

Sun newspaper staff among eight arrested in police probeBy the CNN Wire StaffFebruary 11, 2012 -- Updated 1127 GMT (1927 HKT)The headquarters of News Corporation in Manhattan, New York.STORY HIGHLIGHTSFive of those arrested work for the bestselling Sun newspaper The others are a police officer, a member of the military and a Ministry of Defence…

Rio’s police strike ahead of Carnival

February 11, 2012

By Arne Ruhnau

Rio's police go on strike a week ahead of CarnivalBy Shasta Darlington, CNNFebruary 11, 2012 -- Updated 0129 GMT (0929 HKT)Police and firefighters protest in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Nearly 300 officers and firefighters are disciplined for participating in the strike The strikes have raised concerns about escalating crime…

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Posts Tagged ‘ hackers ’

Security Expert Brian Krebs Faced A Real-Life SWATing After Posting About Russian Cybercrime Site

No Winning Exploit Found For Chrome OS At Annual Hacking Competition, Pwnium 3

Hackers target 15 Lebanese government websites, calling for better living standards

London Real-time hack event ends with exhausted and innovative winners

Microsoft India backtracks, hack may have exposed customer credit card details after all

Announcing the Hack Battle at The Next Web Conference 2012

Mejorando.la Conference will land in Mexico to discuss the future of web design

Sun staff arrested in UK police inquiry

Rio’s police strike ahead of Carnival

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