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New Xbox 360 Dashboard Demo Leaked, Reveals Skype Integration
It’s been long rumored, but now it’s close to being confirmed: Skype integration will be coming to Xbox 360. Tom Warren at Winrumors discovered a video on YouTUBE (although quickly pulled by Microsoft) that demonstrates a new Xbox 360 Dashboard and a panoply of interesting new features. Unfortunately, the video now displays the message, “This ...
Anonymous Lashes Out Against BART Over Anti-Protestor Cell Phone Blackout
A particularly reactive sub-faction of Anonymous has brought down the hammer on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) a Sate of California government agency that runs trains and platforms for commuters and tourists in the area. In what the faction is calling #OpBART they have defaced the BART web page and released names, passwords, and other ...
Hackers Deface AOL Web Page, Reveal Sensitive Password Information
Midafternoon Saturday, AOL’s postmaster.aol.com website was compromised and defaced by a hacker identifying themselves as HodLuM. The hacker modified the front page to display an AOL logo and the message: “AOL S3RV3RZ ROOT3D BY HODLUM LOLZ!” The fun didn’t stop there for curious folks looking at the source code to the page, however; beneath the ...
London Looter Robs the Wrong Computer Geek, Gets Caught by Ill-Gotten Macbook
When the London riots broke out, Greg Martin—a self-styled information security evangelist and computer security contractor—didn’t expect that he’d become the victim of a theft. According to his blog, he had returned to his London abode to discover his living space broken into, ransacked, and his Macbook Pro missing. To many, the personal violation of ...
MtGox Acquires Bitomat.pl as Bid to Restore Confidence in Bitcoin Market
In a move to restore confidence in the Bitcoin exchange market, MtGox (owned and operated by Tibanne Co. Ltd.) will be integrating the recently beleaguered Bitomat.pl user database. According to a recent press release, MtGox will migrate the users of the 3rd largest Bitcoin exchange into their own and add the Polish Zloty as an ...
Hackers Threaten BlackBerry Maker over Co-Operation with London Riots Investigation
Hackers have defaced the BlackBerry blog in a move to intimidate Research In Motion over a statement that the company would lawfully assist the police during the investigation of the London and Tottenham riots. The London riots spread at such an extraordinary rate and with apparent orchestration that shows evidence that social networking and messaging systems ...
RIM to Co-operate with Metropolitan Police Over BlackBerry Role in London Riots, Looter Networking
Scotland Yard has vowed to investigate and track down instigators who have been using messaging software and social media in order to post “really inflammatory, inaccurate” messages using the BlackBerry network, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media networks. The manufacturer of BlackBerry, Research In Motion, said Monday that they would co-operate with a police investigation ...
Anonymous Defaces Syria’s Ministry of Defense Website, Castigates Current Regime
A faction claiming participation in the hactivist collective Anonymous has struck the web pages of the Syrian Ministry of Defense (currently offline) and defaced them with a message about the massacres occurring in that country. According to The Hacker News, the Anonymous logo and a note can be seen on the homepage. In the wake ...
Bitcoin Ends its Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Only two months ago the Bitcoin charts saw a massive price inflationary phase as speculation exceeded what the market could bear and the currency peaked June 8 at around $32 per BTC. Now charts have fallen to almost $7 as the June bubble evaporates and the market stabilizes once again—alongside a series of hacks to ...
Who is Tom Williams? MyBitcoin.com Reappears with Statement Claiming Site Was Hacked
The semi-anonymous developers who ran MyBitcoin.com have left a cryptographically signed message on the front page of their site talking about why the site went AWOL last month along with almost $250,000 worth of BTC. Although the message is extremely sparse, contains few details, and no way to actually contact or identify responsible parties, it’s ...