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Alleged hacker has long history of activism
When Jeremy Hammond, originally of Glendale Heights, was charged Tuesday with crimes related to a large-scale hacking operation against major corporations and government entities, it wasn’t something he’d been waiting to see happen, but it wasn’t totally unexpected either said James Ewert, Jr. who graduated from Glenbard East with Hammond…
Lessons from history: The first virus
It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain. The Brain was a boot sector virus that was written on and for floppy disks and spread by the exchange of disks between users. The Brain which was also known…
Google security expert demonstrates web browser history theft
Google security engineer and vulnerability researcher Michal Zalewski demonstrated how stealing browsing history is still possble despite defences currently implemented in web browsers. History theft is a type of attack that can expose what websites users have visited in the past by determining how their browsers display links to them….
Correction: Today in History for Nov. 22
Check out the latest movie trailers! More>> In the Nov. 22 Today in History fixture, The Associated Press reported erroneously that English pirate Edward Teach, better known as “Blackbeard,” was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast. The battle was off the North Carolina coast. View full post on…
Google Web History open to Firesheep hack
Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim’s Google Web History and collect a record of everything an individual has searched for. The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and…
Google Web History vulnerable to new Firesheep hack
Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim’s Google Web History, a record of everything an individual has searched for. The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot…