Tag: HACKS

It seems like everyday computer users have a new reason to fear that their data is unsafe. And to be fair, it isn't. Unless you lock vital PC components up in separate bank quality vaults, encrypt all your data, and never go online, you're always in some danger, and at that point what use is a computer anyway? But every once in a while a hacker demonstrates a vulnerability in our computers that ...

Kids do the darnedest things sometimes. Take the 14-year-old from Lodz, Poland, who hacked a television remote control to manipulate his city's tram system, thereby derailing four trams, and injuring 12 people. Little rapscallion, what can you do? Apparently charge him with endangering public safety and drag him before a juvenile court. Or at least that's what the court in Lodz did in the case ...

After saying some regretable things about Jews, Ann Coulter's site has been hacked. The hackers have posted a fake letter from her, proclaiming her "retirement" from all things media. Here's the note before it goes down: An Open Letter to Readers by Ann Coulter October 15, 2007 Dear Readers, I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. Quite frankly, I'm sick of it. You ...

Yesterday afternoon, reports began to surface regarding widespread log-in problems with Skype, the popular voice chat and digital phone service. By "widespread log-in problems," we mean "nobody in the world could log in." Throughout the evening, Skype engineers worked through the problems and made frequent posts on their status blog. The blogging engineers took every possible opportunity to ...

We all new it was only a matter of time before relentless hackers started taking care of some of our iPhone gripes. First thing on the block, customizable ring-tones. The folks over at hacktheiphone.com have compiled a set of complex but very specific instructions for loading your own personal ring-tones on the iPhone ... at least if you have an Intel based Mac. The hack is possible with the ...

If your in-car GPS system told you to drive off a bridge, would you? We hope not, because that humble dashboard navigator may be out to get you, according to Engadget. Okay, so it's not the device itself that has evil intents, but apparently GPS systems in general are just awfully impressionable. The signals used to broadcast traffic and accident information to in-car systems have been shown to ...