Make sure you change you LinkedIn password today. Reports are coming out of Norway saying that a Russian hacker has a copy of 6.5 Million LinkedIn passwords that are hashed somewhere on a Russian hacking site. Hashed, what does it mean to our non technical readers. For added security a website might hash ...

News on the Internet is floating around that a man called Craig S. Wright was contracted for testing computer systems on a Boeing 747. Mr Wright told journalists that they had a video system that runs over TCP/IP. This was attached to a layer 2 VLAN which was breached by Wright which gave him access to the 747's Engine Management ...

If you want to sniff traffic on the network you are on you can use wireshark to do it. If wireshark is used together with a Man in the Middle Attack it could pick up all non encrypted data.

The European Hacker Group Chaos Computer Club found a new government malware program. This malware program, CCC claims, belongs to German Police. The malware or trojan floats around the Internet trying to access your machine and then hide itself. The trojan is capable of recording your microphone and webcam. It also has the capability ...

Earlier last week, I had written an article on OnStar stating that they will continue tracking their customers after disconnection of their service. Today I received an email from them again where they let me know that they have reversed this policy and now will not continue tracking your vehicle after you cancel your service. I guess they realized that this is a mistake. Thank you OnStar for coming ... ...

MerchantServices.com, a Florida company that handles credit card processing online, is now giving away vouchers for free AK-47 with the sign-up of a free merchant account. While also offering other things this was the one that stood out the most. Their reason for doing so is because people need to protect themselves from criminals and maybe crime will go down if criminals know that lethal force ...

OnStar, which is a service that tracks your vehicle for emergency situations, told all their customers that they will continue to track your vehicle even after you cancel your service. Their privacy policy has been updated and basically gives them the right to track your speed and location anonymously. Also this ...

A Hacker with proven ties to last month's DigiNotar SSL Certificate hack, now claims that he also hacked into GlobalSign and StartCom. Threatening that he will make all the data public soon, GlobalSign and StartCom are now investigating the claims. The Hacker who calls himself Comodohacker has signed his statement ...

I was wondering when it would happen that anonymous declares war on Facebook because its been a concern on the IRC channels for a while now and throughout the Internet. Anonymous claims that Facebook is selling information to security firms and government that specialize in spying on people and also that you can not delete your information from their website. The agencies are accused by Anonymous, ...

Yesterday I got an email saying that the new NetBeans 7.0.1 is ready for download. NetBeans 7.0.1 now supports JDK7 so all you Java Hackers should be happy now. :) The update feature improvements rack WebLogic related enhancements and a significant quality improvement. Also areas like HTML5 and Oracle Database ...