Tag: Hacker
The malware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball's MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their ads onto legitimate sites by way of DoubleClick's DART program. Web publishers use the DoubleClick-hosted platform to manage advertising inventory.
If you've seen any of the ads, you may have experienced something like this: You're on a legitimate site. Your browser window closes down. A new...
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Engadget notes that DRM hacker 'arnezami' over at the Doom9 forums has found the "processing key" used to decrypt the DRM on all HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films. "Let's break this down for what it is: instead of needing individual keys for each and every high-definition film -- of which there are many -- the processing key can be used to unlock, decrypt, and backup every HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc film released so far." The war on keeping pirated HD content out of the hands of broadband users isn't going very well so far -- the only thing holding...
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Over a year and a half after pleading guilty to stealing customer information from T-Mobile USA, Nicholas Lee Jacobsen has been sentenced to one year of house arrest. Jacobsen stole information on about 400 T-Mobile customers who used the popular Sidekick device. Among the compromised users was a US Secret Service agent, though no investigation was harmed.
"I did some very stupid things," Jacobsen told U.S. District Judge George King at his sentencing Monday in Los Angeles.
Besides the year of home detention, Jacobsen must pay $10,000 in...
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An FBI computer consultant who pleaded guilty to hacking the secret passwords of Director Robert Mueller and others will not serve any time in prison, a federal judge has ruled.
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