Its no fun finding out you’re sites have been hacked, especially when the first thing you know about it is when Google have slapped a Malware Warning page over the top of your blog! Honestly, it makes you want to swear. It’s honestly unbelievable that so many self-hosted Wordpress blog users have themes that unwittingly leave t

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David Airey's domain got hacked/cracked just a week before Christmas and he was lucky to have a redirected domain which allowed his blog to stay online and also his message spread across the internet quickly with 3,700 diggs and other social sites. A total of 50,000 unique visitors understand the pain and trouble David is going through.

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A review of the software application Mailwasher and how it can help in protecting out computers from malware.

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The term hacker historically was use to refer to anyone who used computers and had an interest and knowledge of how they worked and how to make them do other tasks. Now it has become a weapon of mass distraction.

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Bruce Sterling’s 1992 classic journalistic history of the founding of the online civil liberties movement, The Hacker Crackdown, which chronicles the events that led to the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.rnrnIt is a series of podcasts made by Boing Boing's Corry Doctorow, edited so that you can listen only to the book (an

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We all know how crappy WEP is. It has been proven time and time again that it can be broken. I have even done posts on cracking WEP. What about WPA? WPA is supposed to be pretty secure right?

If you think your WPA cannot be cracked, guess again. Just like WEP, your WPA protected access point is vulnerable to dictionary or brute force attac

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Today, more and more people are using their computers for everything from communication to online banking and investing to shopping. As we do these things on a more regular basis, we open ourselves up to potential hackers, attackers and crackers. While some may be looking to phish your personal information and identity for resa

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lets face it, people are lazy and I will go out on a limb here and say that 90% of people use one password for everything. If you find their password for one thing, there is a greater possibility that they will use it for everything from online banking, to Paypal, to MySpace.

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Movies about computers or hacking have always been one of my favorite genres. What is a shame is that Hollywood never seems to get it right. Most computer movies are so far fetched from reality, even though they are entertaining. The 3 listed below are my favorites with a brief plot summary. I have also made a poll with a l

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The writers from the mildly successful tech blog, Bauer-Power, will be attending this year's San Diego ToorCon which is Southern California's premier hacker convention now in its 10th year running. The convention is set to be held Sep 26th-28th.

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ToorCon, now in its 10th year running, is San Diego's

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