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Hackers at it again
The FBI over the weekend executed a search on the apartment of a University of Tennessee student suspected in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account. It has been reported that hackers broke into the personal site of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who had been carrying on for [...]
Full StoryI Know Your Password
There is a cool tool that scans databases such as MYSQL in an attempt to find accounts using passwords like “password,” “12345,” “qwerty” and “abc123.” The program runs through a list of account names and attempts to login using a number of password combination’s to gain access to a users account. This kind of hack [...]
Full StoryHow Strong is Your Password?
You may think your password will never be hacked, but how sure are you? Do you use a password such as your date of birth, phone number, street address or initials? You may be in for a surprise as hacking passwords has become easier to obtain. It’s important to have a password that is at [...]
Full StoryI Was Hacked!
How many times have you seen a post with the title “I Was Hacked” in a forum or social network? I have seen it so many times, and I always come up with the same question, “Why would they hack your site?” I see no monetary value that a hacker could receive from many of [...]
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