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FBI Used Metadata to Catch CabinCr3w Hacker

According to an FBI affadavit, alleged CabinCr3w hacker Higinio O. Ochoa III was caught by FBI agents after posting a photo of his girlfriend online."Higino O. Ochoa III was charged with illegally h...

Heather Morris Hacked

Nude photos of "Glee" star Heather Morris were recently posted online."The naked pictures are alleged to have been stolen by hackers from the 25-year-old actress's mobile p...

Digital Playground Porn Site Hacked

The porn site Digital Playground was recently hacked by The Consortium, exposing 72,794 customers' user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, as well as more than 44,000 cr...

Buy a Botnet: THOR for Sale for $8,000

A new botnet coded by TheGrimReap3r is currently nearing completion, and will soon be offered for sale on hacking forums for $8,000."THOR does not use a central ," Infosecuri...

Hiring Hackers and Buying Malware is Easy

In the earlier days of computers, virus writers and hackers were viewed as fame-seeking and adrenaline-hungry teens with nothing better to do. But as PC usage and the Internet grew, th...

The Pros and Cons of Advanced Authentication

The cornerstone of any reliable security system is authentication, the way of confirming the truth of something or the identity of a person. To protect data and/or control ...

Anonymous Hackers Hit Child Porn Web Sites

Members of Anonymous claim to have taken down more than 50 child pornography Web sites and leaked the names of more than 1,500 members of one of the sites."The Anonymous ca...

Trend Micro Endpoint Security Review

Trend Micro is one of the "big four" business endpoint security vendors, along with Symantec, McAfee and Kaspersky. Its offering comes in two versions: a standard one, calle...

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