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55,000 Twitter Accounts Hacked

Twitter is investigating after 55,000 account details — including username and password combinations — were published online. Account details seemingly belonging to spammers were uploaded to Pastebin, a code-sharing site often used by hackers to post the results of their … Continue reading

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Hackers Penetrated NASDAQ Computers

Federal Authorities are investigating the identity and motivations of the hackers that have penetrated repeatedly the computers of NASDAQ. Continue reading

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All Gawker Media Sites Hacked

If you have ever created a commenter account with Gawker Media, including the sites Gawker, Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Gizmodo, or Lifehacker, then this weekend’s news is cause for concern. All of Gawker’s properties were hacked, with usernames and passwords compromised and put online for public consumption. Does this mean that you’re in trouble? Continue reading

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