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Microsoft: Hackers obtained high-profile Xbox Live accounts

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Several high-profile Xbox Live accounts for former and current Microsoft employees were compromised by attackers using social engineering techniques, the company said late Tuesday.

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Mar 20, 2013

LA Times Hack: Security Breach or Harmless Prank?

Federal prosecutors say Reuters' deputy social media editor conspired with a notorious hacker network to cause an online security breach that should be punished by decades in federal prison.

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Mar 19, 2013

China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage

Young man's blog provides a rare glimpse of the secretive hacking establishment of the Chinese military, whose efforts have become a growing concern to the U.S.

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Mar 13, 2013

Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist

A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency.

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Mar 08, 2013

Security Experts Warn State Governments Face Losing Battle With Hackers

The email sent to several thousand of state employees in early February looked official. It featured the state logo and a familiar warning that email access was about to be cut off because the employee

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Mar 07, 2013

60 Days of Hacker Assaults

Within the first 60 days of 2013, an alarming number of international corporations and government agencies faced serious security violations from Internet hacking. Beyond the Twitter, Apple and Facebook invasions, a more ominous threat attacked the State Department, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy and some of the largest U.S.-based news organizations.

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Mar 06, 2013

Evernote Hack Results in 50 Million Password Resets

Evernote and its 50 million-user population are having a bad week. The productivity software-as-a-service issued a systemwide password reset for all of its users on Saturday after a hacker or group of hackers broke into its user database and swiped various bits of user information, including usernames, emails and passwords.

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Mar 06, 2013

Banged-up Brit hacker hacks into his OWN PRISON'S 'MAINFRAME'

A UK hacker behind bars for computer fraud hacked into his prison's computer system during an IT lesson. Nicholas Webber, 21, of Southsea, Hampshire, was able to access the network after being allowed to join the jail's technology classes.

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Mar 05, 2013

Hacking victim Bit9 blames SQL injection flaw

Bit9 said a common Web application vulnerability was responsible for allowing hackers to ironically use the security vendor's systems as a launch pad for attacks on other organizations.

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Feb 28, 2013

Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered

Researchers are having a fun time with iOS 6.1 passcode locks this month, with Vulnerability Lab having discovered a second version of a vulnerability that lets a hacker slip past a lock screen to access a user's contact list, voicemails and more.

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Feb 27, 2013

Hacker finds a terrifying Facebook security flaw that allows him to access anyone

Is Facebook secure? We questions the site

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Feb 27, 2013

Vulnerability in recent Linux kernels offers root rights

An error in the handling of special netlink messages in the Linux kernel can allow a user to surreptitiously gain root privileges. The discoverer of the hole, Mathais Krause, confirmed to The H's associates at heise Security that Linux kernel versions 3.3 to 3.8 are affected.

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Feb 26, 2013

Chinese Army link to hack no reason for cyberwar

Security vendor Mandiant's 60-page report on Chinese cyberespionage, which offers proof that it is coming from a Chinese military unit housed in a building in the Pudong district of Shanghai, adds new fuel to two hotly debated cybersecurity questions.

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Feb 20, 2013

Jeep joins Burger King in Twitter hack club

Just a day after Burger King's Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds, Jeep is suffering the same fate

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Feb 19, 2013

iOS 6.1 hack lets users see your phone app, place calls

Some sleight of hand will allow iOS 6.1 hackers to access your phone application, listen to your voice mails, and place calls.

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Feb 15, 2013

Hackers can easily breach Emergency Alert Systems

Hackers broke into several television stations' Emergency Alert Systems this week and broadcast that zombies were "rising from their graves" and "attacking the living."

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Feb 14, 2013

Unlocking Ma Bell: How phone phreaks came to be

In "Exploding the Phone," Phil Lapsley writes an entertaining and educational history of the people who hacked the original phone networks. Lapsley talked to CNET about his book.

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Feb 13, 2013

Bit9 hack casts spotlight on security industry practices

By confessing that its mistakes led to security breaches at three customers, Bit9 has sparked debate over whether the industry is ready to block hackers that see vendors as the door to other companies.

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Feb 12, 2013

Samsung, Linux and the Bothersome Bricking Problem

"I see UEFI as fundamentally suspect, as a second generation on the basic BIOS, probably over-engineered to solve all possible problems, and therefore overly complex," said blogger Chris Travers. "It may be an improvement or not, but I suspect that whatever eventually replaces UEFI will be a much better compromise on all fronts."

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Feb 11, 2013

Fed Admits Online Security Breach, Hacker Group Anonymous Blamed

The Federal Reserve says an internal website was briefly breached by hackers on Sunday, making it the latest government agency to fall victim to a cyberattack.

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Feb 07, 2013

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