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In this day in age when our data is so important, losing or getting your iPhone stolen can be detrimental. Sure you can lock your iPhone, but it can be hacked into or you can even remote wipe your data, deleting it for good if it fell into the wrong hands.
Anonymous, the hacker group that you probably have heard of by now is doing something different to cause a disruption. Anon is trying to disrupt the music business, in a similar fashion as Napster or Limewire did as it’s predecessors, however not exactly in the same way making sure not to break any copyright sharing laws, which they need to be very careful of. Anon is building what they call Anontune, which will be a social music aggregation and discovery service.
Social Networking is hot stuff these days, so you know, and the FBI finally felt after several years to publish their own social networking brochure which gives you tips and advice on how to stay a step ahead of nefarious individuals trying to p4wn you on the Interwebs. But in all seriousness, it does have some good info if you aren’t hip to some common web terms such as ‘click-jacking’, ‘doxing’ or ‘pharming’.
Glitcher is a Facebook user that exploits the biggest social networking site in the world by using different script tricks and symbols called diacritics stacked upon each other to create chaos on his Facebook wall. It’s a bit of an art form if you ask me, and his skills display through his posts which really add some much needed flavor to Facebook which can be stagnate at times.
If you want complete privacy on your computer monitor, so that nobody can see what only you can see, then you need to check out this computer monitor hack from Reddit. It’s very creative and easy to do. The only thing is, you might look a bit funny using it when others see you staring at a blank screen.
The story of the unraveling of LulzSec is fascinating. News broke this morning that the leader of LulzSec has been a secret informant for the FBI since last year.
It’s been a crazy week for the Internet to say the least. First there were nationwide protests and blackouts against SOPA, with citizens of the web uniting as one to keep an open and free Internet. Then yesterday, things really popped off after major file sharing website MegaUpload was shut down by the FBI, after a 2-yr long investigation.
Holy cow, is this really happening? After hearing about the MegaUpload shut down, the hacker or ‘hactivist’ group Anonymous is already taking a stance on the situation, and fighting back. They have already taken down Justice.gov and UniversalMusic.com and shot off a tweet saying “justice.gov & universalmusic.com TANGO DOWN! You should have EXPECT US! #Megaupload.”
Internet censorship in the U.S. is still a real fear and possibility as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is still under consideration. The House Judiciary Committee was supposed to make a decision on it last week, then decided to post-pone until after winter break and reconvene in January citing they need more technical expert opinions before they can come to a vote. That is good news.
This may be one of the best hacks to date. Called Project Black Mirror, Ollie and Josh who are a couple of hackers have created proof of concept and have a working prototype of a Siri hack that will read your mind.
In a sad turn of events, Anonymous affirms they are not going to attack Facebook at all. Earlier this year it was reported that Anon had their sites on Facebook for today. There were some rumors that this was false, but many continued to say it was true. So today came and I had my popcorn ready, but unfortunatley the inevitable never happened.
When Anonymous is not busy taking down governments and fighting Mexican drug cartels, they are planning other things - like targeting one of the biggest websites known to human kind - that’s right, they plan on taking down Facebook.
Los Zetas is one of the top three drug cartels in Mexico where drugs, violence and corruption are taking over downtown Mexico and it’s border cities. The other top drug cartels are the Juarez Cartel and Tijuana Cartel.
Facebook is introducing a new feature in a few weeks to try to make gaining access to your account easier when you are locked out by adding “Trusted Friends”. With the new feature, you can provide codes to trusted friends, so if your locked out, they can help you get back in.
I don’t claim to be a hacker or know how to hack, but in a post that I saw on Twitter last night, someone was claiming to have compromised Facebook’s servers. The perpetrators are the Inj3ct0r Team, which this wouldn’t be the first time I have seen their name around before for hacks.
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