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Trend Micro's Web site hacked in massive attack

Security vendor Trend Micro's Web site was hacked earlier this week in an attack that spread to hundreds of other sites, according to an InfoWorld report.

The malicious code tries to embed software that steals passwords from users as they visit Web sites, according to the report.

Trend Micro discovered the attack on Wednesday and took steps to shut it down. It affected about 20,000 Web pages written with Microsoft's Active Server Pages Web development software. According to Trend Micro:

(A similar previous) attack seems to have started more than a week ago, and nearly 200,000 … Read more

Hackers claim iPhone 2.0 breakthrough

It hasn't even been released yet, but iPhone hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple's iPhone 2.0 software.

The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday (thanks, Gizmodo) it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone's bootloader by taking advantage of the way the iPhone authorizes code that can be written to memory. After some modifications, this apparently allows any code to be written to the iPhone, such as applications that haven't been authorized by Apple, and it should work with any new software version Apple releases, according to … Read more

5,000 MTV Networks' employees potential affected by breach

Someone apparently hacked into a computer belong to an employee of MTV Networks and possibly gained access to names, birth dates, social security numbers and compensation data of 5,000 employees.

MTV Networks, a unit of media conglomerate Viacom, notified employees of the security compromise on Friday and said that while the computer files pertaining to employees' private information were password protected, the company can't be sure they haven't been opened.

"Once we learned of the incident, we immediately launched an internal investigation," the company said in a statement. "We ... contacted appropriate law enforcement authorities, … Read more

Security researchers to unveil pacemaker, medical implant hacks

A team of respected security researchers known for their work hacking RFID radio chips have turned their attention to pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators.

The researchers will present their paper, "Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses," during the "Attacks" session of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, one of the most prestigious conferences for the computer security field.

The authors of the paper are listed as: Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Will Morgan, Benjamin Ransford, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, William H. Maisel.

Kevin Fu, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, … Read more

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EPISODE 32

Today we talk about how Monster cables are overpriced (duh), how much Paris Hilton sucks, and how to "hack" T-Mobile. Plus, Comcast is covering its ass by amending the company's Terms of Service to allow for throttling of BitTorrent traffic.

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Engineer unlocks Wii's hidden potential

Correction 7:45 a.m. PST: I got the sensor bar and the Wiimote's duties mixed up. Names notwithstanding, the sensor bar has the infrared LEDs, and the Wiimote actually has the cameras that detect the signals.

I support the hardware-hacking philosophy on principle, but most of the movement's labors have left me uninspired. That all changed when I started seeing the uses that Carnegie Mellon researcher Johnny Chung Lee has found for the Nintendo Wii's infrared remote control.

In a collection of videos, notable for their lucid explanations, the Ph.D. graduate student from CMU's … Read more

Angry worker accused of deleting $2.5 million worth of data

A Florida woman who feared she was about to be fired was accused of deleting seven years of architectural drawings valued at $2.5 million. The woman allegedly saw a want ad from her boss that described her position. Someone entered the office at 11 p.m. that Sunday and apparently spent four hours deleting files. The company owner said the files were recovered.

Read the full story on The Register: Employee's silent rampage wipes out $2.5m worth of data.

Near cyber-war--an inside job

Dmitri Galushkevich, a 20-year-old ethnic Russian living in Estonia, admitted his guilt in launching cyberattacks against Estonia's leading political party's Web site last April. This was one of many attacks against Estonian government and business sites which almost caused a cyber-war between Russia and Estonia. According to authorities, he engineered denial-of-service attacks to protest the move of a World War II statue in Estonia. Galushkevich was fined $1,600.

Read the full story on Yahoo News: Estonia convicts first 'cyber-war' hacker: prosecutors .

Hack iTunes to remove the movie-rental time limit

Update: It appears this may not work after all. And here I thought those Giz guys were crackerjacker hackers.

Renting movies from iTunes? Love it. Having to finish watching a movie within 24 hours of starting it? Not so much with the love. Fortunately, those crafty fellows over at Gizmodo figured out an easy way to turn the clock back, so to speak, thus extending your watchability window.

Basically, if you set your computer's clock ahead a few days (or weeks, or months) before starting the movie, then set it back to normal again, you'll have virtually unlimited … Read more

End of the innocence? The iPhone's first Trojan

Early adopters are an impatient lot, especially Apple boys and girls. With Macworld looming Tuesday (a 3G/GPS iPhone? I will so be in line to get one if or when it comes out) and with reports of impatient iPhoners being hit with a Trojan masked as "leaked" 1.1.3 firmware, you can see that the line between enthusiasm and caution can be thrown to the wind.

While there don't seem to be any lasting or major effects from 1.1.3 Trojan, it made me wonder, when the iPhone is finally opened up for "… Read more