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Following its FBI shenanigans of last week, the loose-knit hacking collective claims to have taken down the CIA's Web site, along with the sites of the Mexican Senate and Interior Ministry. It also says it hacked into police and government sites in Alabama and pilfered personal info on 46,000 Alabamians.
Russian cryptography company ElcomSoft has developed a tool that makes cracking iWork document passwords easier.
CIA Web site goes down Friday in apparent denial-of-service attack by Anonymous as part of anti-law-enforcement demonstration.
Researchers had just identified a brute-force way to crack Google Wallet PINs, and now there's another--and much easier--way to access a Wallet account.
The U.K.'s Automobile Association says its tracking technology could help save customers 850 pounds--or more than $1,300--annually.
Cybercriminals tend to e-mail viruses from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., a new Global Security Report reveals.
Apple's digital store is once again said to be the target of digital thieves, who are reportedly wiping out the store credit on user accounts.
In the Web world, distributed denial-of-service attacks can take out entire sites rather quickly. Mitigating the risk should be top of mind when building network architecture.
An attacker would have to get ahold of an Android that has been rooted to use software that would crack the PIN in Google Wallet.
The search giant is offering a series of gift cards worth up to $25 if you allow it to monitor the Web sites you visit and how you use them.
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