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'Joe the Plumber' gets hacked

October 29, 2008 — 9:30am ET | By Judi Hasson
Republican presidential candidate John McCain made Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, otherwise known as "Joe the Plumber," famous during the October 15 debate with Democrat Barack Obama, and in subsequent... Read more...

Student faces felony charges after alerting principal to server hack

October 28, 2008 — 2:33pm ET | By Paul Mah
A high school student in the state of New York has been slapped with three felony charges after accessing personnel records on a poorly configured computer without authorization. He was caught after... Read more...

Data breaches on the rise

August 27, 2008 — 11:24am ET | By Judi Hasson
The Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego has found that data breaches are on the rise. So far this year, 449 U.S. businesses, government agencies and universities have reported a loss or theft... Read more...

Reporters expelled from Black Hat for snooping

August 8, 2008 — 8:40am ET | By Paul Mah
Three journalists were given the boot from the Black Hat security conference this week after they stretched the tradition of victimizing attendees who use the conference's wireless network a tad too... Read more...

Exploit code for DNS flaw released

July 25, 2008 — 6:23am ET | By Paul Mah
Exploit code for a much touted flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) has been released. This... Read more...

Confessions of a former hacker

July 16, 2008 — 8:54am ET | By Judi Hasson
Kevin Mitnick, who served five years in federal prison for breaking into phone and software company networks, now is a computer security consultant for hire, helping companies protect themselves from... Read more...

U.S., China largest originators of Internet attacks

May 30, 2008 — 7:19am ET | By Paul Mah

Akamai Technologies, who operates a global network of servers used to support the distribution of online media as well as large-scale web sites and

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Phishing attacks may hit your computer

April 17, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Phishing is becoming larger than life. It's one of the latest hacker weapons to sneak into your system and do damage as thousands of high-ranking executives across the country recently discovered. It... Read more...

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