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What A DDoS Attack Looks Like

When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn’t much to see. Maybe you’ll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world away. This is what it looks like.


Anonymous Takes Down NAMBLA’s Page To Protest Paedophilia Pride Day

As you may be hopefully unaware, today is Alice Day, a day inspired by Lewis Carroll’s debated sexual attraction to Alice Liddell, Alice In Wonderland’s very underage and very real counterpart, where proud paedophiles come together in celebration of their disorder. So it’s a beautiful day for a NAMBLA takedown. And Anonymous was happy to answer the call.


Watch The Alleged LulzSec Leader Sing Along To Grease. Yes, Really.

The AFR came out and named the guy the Australian Federal Police arrested as the “self-proclaimed” leader of LulzSec. Do a little looking around, though, and you find the most bonkers video ever. I don’t even know where to start.


‘Self-Proclaimed’ Leader Of LulzSec Arrested In Sydney

The Australian Federal Police have confirmed that they have arrested the alleged leader of notorious hacking group Lulzsec in Sydney.


Whoops, Some CBS Twitter Accounts Got Hacked And Spat Out Virus-y Links

Twitter hacks are an unfortunate reality of every day social media life. Today, it was CBS’s 60 Minutes and 48 Hours accounts that took the hit and started dishing out some linkbait-y tweets with a virus-laden garnish.


Pirate Bay Co-Founder Charged With Hacking And Fraud In Sweden

Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been charged on suspicion that he hacked into a variety of companies, as well as fraudulently withdrawing money from the Swedish Nordea bank. Prosecutors claim he — along with three others — hacked IBM mainframes belonging to tax firm Logica and the bank.


FAA: No, You Can’t Take Down A Plane With An Android App

Remember how the internet got itself all riled up a few days ago when it found out that it would only take one rogue Android user to hack and take over an entire plane? Yeah, about that — it’s not true.


How A Single Android Phone Can Hack An Entire Plane

If airlines were already keen to keep your phone switched off, things could be about to get even more militant. According to a talk by Hugo Teso at the Hack In The Box security conference, it’s possible to hack an entire plane using an Android smartphone. Gulp.


Attempts To Dodge Chinese Hacking May Backfire As Usual

With concern about Chinese hacking on the rise, US Congress has passed new restrictions on buying equipment from China last month as part of a funding bill. The measures ban some federal purchases of networked equipment “produced, manufactured or assembled” by any group with a strong connection to China.


Even Grandma Could Tell This Isn’t How Hacking Works

It’s a common little meta-game for those of us who are technically competent: keep your eye out in the movies for the most egregious technical misrepresentation you can find. And while its one thing to just keep tossing of reference after reference to “the mainframe” this complication of hacktastic scenes put together by the folks at Hack a Day is particularly cringe-worthy.


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