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Justin Bieber YouTube Videos Hacked
Someone apparently really doesn’t like Justin Bieber. The teen pop sensation had several of his YouTube videos “hacked” yesterday. The perpetrators injected hate speech into the videos as well as information (FALSE!) claiming that Justin had died in a car accident. There were also redirects to external adult sites and other nefarious places. YouTube has [...]
Goatse Security Hacker Arrested on Drug Charges
Yesterday, I stood on the side of Goatse Security and white-hat hackers everywhere. While I still remain on that side of the fence, many people are quickly re-aligning themselves. The hacker known on Goatse Security as “weev” was arrested today on several drug-related charges after the FBI showed up at his home with a search [...]
iPad Security Breach: Who Should be in Trouble?
It astounds me to see all of the fingers being pointed at Goatse Security this morning. Several prominent blogs are backtracking today in light of the FBI investigation. When this security hole was first brought to light last week, most people agreed that the folks at Goatse were great guys for identifying and publicizing this [...]
Are You a Ninja?
According to research conducted at both Facebook and LinkedIn, an increasing number of people have job descriptions that include the word “ninja” in the title. Both sites have in-house researchers who look at all of the junk that is posted on their respective sites and then try to make sense of it. That is a [...]
Are Adult Bloggers Ruining it for Kids?
I read an interesting post on Lockergnome today, written by my friend Ron. Ron cites a study that shows that only about 18% of teens today write in a blog. Only about 8% of them are Twitter users. However, about 55% regularly take part in other social networks, such as MySpace. The original study claims [...]
Tempting You to Click
Online advertising is so pervasive that most people barely glance at it. Advertising has become part of the Internet landscape. One way that advertisers are hoping to stir interest is to put their advertising on social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. For example, on Twitter, you would see someone you follow post a link. [...]
Protecting Your Privacy and Security
Cisco Systems uses this program. The Drug Enforcement Administration (USA) uses this program. The Exchange Bank uses this program. McCain Foods Limited uses this program. What program is it? It is Invisible Secrets, and the client list is impressive. Privacy and security are important to these companies and institutions – it is essential to computer [...]
How to Become an Ethical Hacker
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Do you want to be a Certified Ethical Hacker? I know you think you’re a “hacker” because you run scripts that someone else wrote, but… no. It takes a lot more skill than that. It takes education. In some cases, that [...]
Is Your Network Secure?
This is Rodrigo Anonimo’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
Phil Torrone
Confirmed Gnomedex Discussion Leader: Phil Torrone. Last year, “pt” was a smash hit. With his inter-presentation hacks, he quickly became the most popular geek at Gnomedex 5. More people went home talking about the hardware mods he demonstrated than we would have anticipated. With Gnomedex 6.0 being “a higher resolution,” we’re resolved to giving him [...]
