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Last.fm joins LinkedIn, eHarmony in the password-leaking party

It seems we have one more heavy-weight attendee to the password-leaking party. One day after confirmations of 1.5 million passwords leaked from eHarmony and additional 6.5 million passwords...
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LinkedIn hacker leaks 1.5 million eHarmony passwords

On the edge of a mass LinkedIn hack (6.5 million passwords from LinkedIn were leaked), nearly 1.5 million passwords from popular Internet dating website eHarmony have reportedly been stolen...
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LinkedIn investigating leak of 6.5 million passwords

The administration of LinkedIn said to be investigating claims from a Russian hacker who said to have got access to 6,458,020 accounts of the website. There is a possibility the claims are ...
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Anonymous claims ownership over Thursday's Facebook attacks

Famous group of hackativism Anonymous has claimed ownership over several small attacks on Facebook's servers which took place during Thursday (May 31st) late night. The attacks had some of ...
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61% of IT security professionals fear attacks from Anonymous

Almost two-thirds of IT security professionals fear attacks from hackativist group Anonymous, says a research from security firm Bit9. These professionals believe that their companies could...
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Anonymous threat to take the whole Internet down for a day

Saturday, March 31st, the day the Internet will be "shut down". A warn to American government has been sent by the famous hacking activist group Anonymous which said they will be taking the...
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NASA: We were hacked 13 times in 2011

NASA computers have always been treated as one of the safest systems out there, but a few skilled hackers have been able to hack the American spacial agency over the years. Only in 2011, NA...
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Google to pay up to $1 million for Chrome security breaches

If you're a skilled hacker you may as well become a millionaire. Google is offering up to $1 million for people who manage to find security breaches and other flaws in the company's popular...
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HP printers can be controlled and set on fire remotely, says Columbia University researchers

Researchers from The School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University in New York found out a bug on the software of HP LaserJet printers that allows the printer to be contr...
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Facebook says all pornography has been removed from the site

Facebook, which was considered so secure especially against hacker attacks, has been recently suffering with an increasingly amount of inapropriate and pornographic status updates, most of ...