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Ever see all the software that vendors load up on new PCs? Right after Windows 7 goes through setup and registration you can watch the system tray...
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Why do people hack?

While financial gain is certainly a big driver for web hacking, ideological reasons cannot be ignored. Internet organizations, especially hosting...
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Five Little Known Ways to Hack a Computer

This is amazing. My sister Worddreams blogger (she covers science) posted it, but it has as much to do with technology as science. In short, here...
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Not invulnerable: Flashback trojan said to hijack 600,000 Macs

We've known it for some time: Mac OS is not invulnerable to malware. Instead, it was simply not targeted because its market share was not high...
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Common computer security mistakes

Computer security mistakes can be a painful and costly experience. While computer viruses have been around since well before the Internet, the...
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Air Force school focuses on cybersecurity

"The wars of the future will be fought in the cyber domain" sounds like a bad movie tagline from 20 years ago, but it's becoming...
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Obama administration progressing in its cyberspace policy

Using the rationale that the Obama administration wished to address pervasive computer-based attacks against the United States that posed...
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Military reveals U.S. cybersecurity strategy

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III detailed the Defense Department's new cybersecurity strategyin Brussels, Belgium last week,...
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Hacking: modern day threat or hobby? (final)

When we last visited this subject, we discussed - or attempted thereof - the history of hacking. Today, we look more at what hacking has become in...
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Clickjacking the newest craze on the internet

Clickjacking has become the newest craze amongst the hacking community. It has been discussed on CNN, MSNBC and all the major news networks. Today,...
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