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Jul
13
2011

How far will you go to get your revenge?

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How far will you go to frame your neighbours for something. Send them hate mail? Burn a bag of poop on their doorstep and run away? Or hack their WiFi and try to frame them for child pornography and terrorist activities. That is exactly what Barry Ardolf did. Aged 46 and father of two kids, launched an attack on his neighbours by hacking their WiFi and using their connection to frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment and various kinds [...]

Jul
4
2011

President of US Obama is dead according to Fox News

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As the world thought we were done with hackers going on around hacking for the “Lulz”, a new hacker group as emerged. They call themselves Scriptkiddies and they have launched their hackers presence by hacking FOX news twitter accounts and posting fake stories about Obama being shot dead. They do not seem to be related to the recently disbanded Lulz group or the more prominent Anonymous group. Here is a screenshot of the twitter news feed [...]

Jun
11
2011

Lulz Security Takes Down Terrorist Website

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Hacker crew of the SS Lulz is claiming responsibility for AlJahad.com’s temporay takedown. I repeat, The Islamist extremism site is down. The site has already been nuked by rival hacker The Jester in March, prompting Lulz Sec to boast of their coup: “ujelly?” It is good that lulzsec have finally taken a break from all the personal Sony havoc and finally started concentrating on something that really matters. [via Lulzsec]

Jan
29
2011

Apple’s Game Center Hacked already ?

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I was on twitter when i came across a picture uploaded by @lylesback2 featuring Apple’s Game Centre. On it was a player chris.. who had a high score of 9,233,372,036,854,775,807. In comparison the runner up has 1,875,949,649,920, just few 0000 short. How is this possible ? Jail Broken iPhone ? As far as i could remember, they could not connect to the Game Centre, Also i am unsure what game is this on. I tried [...]

Jun
20
2010

How to Disable Access to the Registry in Windows 7

If you do not know what you do in the registry, you can damage your computer pretty good.Today we show you how to prevent users from accessing the registry and make changes to it. Using Policy Editor Local Group Note: This method uses Group Policy Editor which is not available in versions of Windows Home. first type gpedit.msc in the Search box on the Start menu. When Group Policy Editor opens, navigate to User Configuration [...]

Jun
18
2010

Save Files from a failed PC using Ubuntu Live CD

You’ve loaded the Ubuntu Live CD to recover files from a failed system but where do you store the recovered files? We’ll show you how to store them on external hard drives, on the same PC, a Windows home network, and other places. There are many ways to transfer files you can access from a Ubuntu Live CD to a location that a stable machine Windows can not access them. We’ll go through several methods, from [...]

May
14
2010

How to Make Browsing Safer for Children in Google Chrome

Are you worried that you kids might be getting exposed to the dangers out there on the Internet. There have been increases in lots of child related cases that started from the Internet. As a parent, it is one of the foremost duty that one should protect their kids from the on line dangers.  Plus with so much mature content out there that is easily available to view, it can be a nightmare for the parents to [...]

Apr
30
2010

How to use an Ubuntu Live CD to Securely Wipe Your PC’s Hard Drive

Deleting files or quickly formatting a drive isn’t enough for sensitive personal information. We’ll show you how to get rid of it for good using a Ubuntu Live CD. When you delete a file in Windows, Ubuntu, or any other operating system, it doesn’t actually destroy the data stored on your hard drive, it just marks that data as “deleted.” If you overwrite it later, then that data is generally unrecoverable, but if the operating [...]

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