The popular video streaming site “Fast Pass TV” shut down earlier this week following the arrest of one of the site’s alleged operators. The site itself didn’t host any copyrighted content but indexed videos hosted on third-party sites. The operator has been released on bail pending inquiries. For quite a few years the Hollywood-funded Federation [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Fast Pass TV Shuts Down After Arrest
Posted: May 30, 2011 in Cyber Crime, Downloads, P2PTags: FACT, Fast Pass TV, p2p
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Irish Teen Hacker Scares Microsoft Enough to Land Him a Job
Posted: May 28, 2011 in Cyber Crime, Hacking, In The News, MicrosoftTags: Hacking, Irish hacker, Microsoft
What’s the best way to land a programmer’s job at Microsoft? Well, there’s the standard method of going to school for computer science, succeeding admirably, creating programs of your own and then applying and hoping you get the nod. Then there’s the slightly less orthodox method employed occasionally by young and ambitious hackers. In [...]
666 The Facebook “Like” and Twitter “Tweet” buttons that appear on so many websites do a lot more than just help you share content with friends The ubiquitous Facebook “Like” and Twitter “Tweet” buttons let web users share content with their friends and followers, but, unbeknownst to most, they also let the social-media sites track [...]
Nintendo Boss Sent Bricks In DRM Protest
Posted: May 18, 2011 in Cyber Crime, Geek Stuff, In The NewsTags: crime, DRM
Controversy over Nintendos’s new Terms of Service (TOS) for its 3DS is heating up, particularly over the fact that the company is threatening to remotely destroy any devices that are found to be modified. Nintendo says that “any existing or future unauthorized technical modification of the hardware or software of your Nintendo 3DS System, or [...]
HACKED Fox.com
Posted: May 12, 2011 in Cyber Crime, Geek Stuff, Hacking, In The NewsTags: fox.com, hacked
Hackers have broken into a Fox.com extranet site, designed as a repository of research statistics, programming details and ratings for clients and affiliates, and stolen the emails and passwords for hundreds of Fox Broadcasting employees. The group, which calls itself Lulz Security, then used that information to alter the LinkedIn accounts of more than a [...]
Cracking The Credit Card Code
Posted: May 7, 2011 in Cyber Crime, Geek Stuff, Hacking, How to...., TutorialTags: credit card, hack, How to....
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Who Tweeted the Raid on Bin Laden and Didn’t Know It?
Posted: May 2, 2011 in General, In The News, twitterTags: 9/11, al qaeda, Bin Laden, dead, islamabad, osama bin laden dead, twitter
Yesterday Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual on Twitter) was just a “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains”, specifically Abbottabad, northern Pakistan. The IT contractor and graduate of Preston University (which would account for his excellent British-sounding English) also says he’s a ‘startup specialist’ on his LinkedIn profile. But today [...]
