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European Space Agency FTP Servers Breached

The same hacker who compromised MySQL.com and Sun.com last month claimed to have breached the European Space Agency.Approximately 200 usernames, passwords and email addresses...

Federal Reserve Hacker Lin Mun Poo Pleads Guilty

A Malaysian man accused of hacking into a Federal Reserve computer pleaded guilty to possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers.Government prosecutors said the...

RIM CEO Storms Out of Interview on India Question

Mike Lazaridis, the co-CEO of Research in Motion, abruptly terminated an interview with BBC when he was asked about RIM's problems in India and...

Adobe to Patch Flash Zero Day Bug This Week

Adobe has updated its advisory from earlier this week warning users of another Flash zero-day bug with the expected patch timing.Adobe will update Flash...

Sony, GeoHot Settles PS3 Hacking Lawsuit

Sony has settled its lawsuit against GeoHot, the hacker who published the secret key to jailbreak the PlayStation 3 console. George Hotz's code allowed...

Apple’s iOS 4.3.1 Jailbreak Available in Latest Pwnage Tool

The iPhone Dev-Team released Pwnage Tool 4.2 on April 3, which would allow users to jailbreak their iPhones to version 4.3.1. Apple released 4.3.1...

Former Gucci Employee Indicted for IT Rampage

A network engineer at Gucci America was indicted on charges of illegally accessing the company's network and deleting documents shortly after he was fired....

Anonymous Gets Personal with Sony Attack

Hacktivist group Anonymous took a break from attacking banks, government sites and online services to focus on Sony in retaliation for the company's legal...

Color a Potential Spammers’ Heaven?

If you are even remotely concerned about online privacy, you might reconsider using the Color mobile application, as it is worthless if you aren't...

Silverpop Breach Monetized as Fake Adobe Reader Updates

Silverpop attackers are finally beginning to monetize the customer data they stole last fall from the email marketing company. The spam campaign using email...