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Joe McElderry is gay - The Economic Voice

Hacker News - 1 hour 22 min ago

Contactmusic.com

Joe McElderry is gay
The Economic Voice
X Factor winner, Joe McElderry has come out as gay after hackers hacked into his Twitter account. The hackers posted a spoof coming out for Joe which led to ...
X Factor winner Joe McElderry reveals he is gayDaily Mail
Joe McElderry: I'm gayTelegraph.co.uk
Joe McElderry Comes Out: 'X Factor' Winner Reveals He's GayIn Entertainment (blog)
Stop Press News (blog) -ATV News (blog) -Gay NZ
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Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon - Wired News

Hacker News - 4 hours 41 min ago

Wired News

Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon
Wired News
This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis and Matt Fiddler who have been cracking locks at DefCon for several years ...

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Hackers Targeting Smartphone Apps - RedOrbit

Hacker News - 5 hours 40 min ago

SAMAA TV

Hackers Targeting Smartphone Apps
RedOrbit
Software security experts are warning that mobile phones make enticing targets for hackers, as many people eagerly download unfamiliar applications onto ...
Smartphones tempting new targets for hackersAFP
Smartphones Tempting for Computer HackersGeek WIth Laptop
Smartphone Breaches Are Rare -- For NowIT Business Edge (blog)

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X Factor winner Joe McElderry reveals he is gay - Daily Mail

Hacker News - 6 hours 2 min ago

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X Factor winner Joe McElderry reveals he is gay
Daily Mail
X Factor winner Joe McElderry has revealed that he is gay, after hackers who broke into his account outed him on the internet. ...
Joe McElderry: I'm gayTelegraph.co.uk
X Factor winner reveals he is gayThe Press Association
Joe McElderry Comes Out: 'X Factor' Winner Reveals He's GayIn Entertainment (blog)
Stop Press News (blog) -PopDash -ATV News (blog)
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Joe McElderry Confirms He Is Gay - PopDash

Hacker News - 6 hours 47 min ago

Stop Press News (blog)

Joe McElderry Confirms He Is Gay
PopDash
The star, who won last years X Factor, claims that it was when his Twitter account was hacked into last month and the hacker updated it claiming Joe was gay ...
X Factor winner Joe McElderry reveals he is gayDaily Mail
Joe McElderry: I'm gayTelegraph.co.uk
X Factor winner reveals he is gayThe Press Association
In Entertainment (blog) -Stop Press News (blog) -Gay NZ
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Smooth-talking hackers test hi-tech titans' skills - AFP

Hacker News - 10 hours 9 min ago

AFP

Smooth-talking hackers test hi-tech titans' skills
AFP
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Hackers at an infamous DefCon gathering are proving that old-fashioned smooth talk rivals slick software skills when it comes to ...
Social-engineering contest reveals secret BP infoRegister
FBI pokes around Defcon social engineering contest that tries to obtain ...CrunchGear (blog)
Workers easily tricked into revealing corporate secretsVentureBeat

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Joe McElderry: I'm gay - Telegraph.co.uk

Hacker News - 10 hours 24 min ago

Stop Press News (blog)

Joe McElderry: I'm gay
Telegraph.co.uk
The teenager was prompted to go public after his Twitter account was targeted by hackers who published a post saying: "It's been difficult living a lie for ...
X Factor winner Joe McElderry reveals he is gayDaily Mail
X Factor winner reveals he is gayThe Press Association
X Factor winner Joe McElderry secret revealedStop Press News (blog)
Gay NZ -The Sun -Mirror.co.uk
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Credit card hackers could target Grand Strand - WMBF

Hacker News - 13 hours 19 min ago

Credit card hackers could target Grand Strand
WMBF
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - New numbers show that hotels are the number one target for credit card hackers and hotels on the ...

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X Factor winner reveals he is gay - The Press Association

Hacker News - 15 hours 4 min ago

Daily Mail

X Factor winner reveals he is gay
The Press Association
The singer's disclosure to two tabloid newspapers came after hackers broke into his account on the social networking site Twitter and "outed" him. ...
X Factor winner Joe McElderry reveals he is gayDaily Mail
X Factor winner Joe McElderry comes outGay NZ
Joe McElderry reveals: I am gayThe Sun
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WikiLeaks Mastermind Julian Assange: Evil Genius or Visionary Hacker? - Politics Daily (blog)

Hacker News - 15 hours 40 min ago

Sydney Morning Herald

WikiLeaks Mastermind Julian Assange: Evil Genius or Visionary Hacker?
Politics Daily (blog)
He is, of course, the lean, tall, and pale 39-year-old Australian master hacker at the white-hot center of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and, ...
Julian Assange: is 'Wikileaker' on a crusade or an ego trip?Telegraph.co.uk
Blowing the whistleAmerican Chronicle
Leaker defends release of namesThe Australian
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Cybercrime: Are mobsters planting hackers in big companies? - Christian Science Monitor

Hacker News - 16 hours 28 min ago

Christian Science Monitor

Cybercrime: Are mobsters planting hackers in big companies?
Christian Science Monitor
While cybercrime fell in 2009, the report noted that hackers are getting better at what they do. Don Jackson, director of intelligence at SecureWorks, ...

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Software released for attacking Android phones - Reuters (press release)

Hacker News - Fri, 07/30/2010 - 5:24pm

Reuters UK

Software released for attacking Android phones
Reuters (press release)
"It wasn't difficult to build," said Nicholas Percoco, head of Spider Labs, who along with a colleague, released the tool at the Defcon hacker's conference ...
Silent, easily made Android rootkit shown at Black HatElectronista (blog)

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Verizon Motorola Droid X source code released, hackers rejoice (sort of) - IntoMobile (blog)

Hacker News - Fri, 07/30/2010 - 5:05pm

Metro

Verizon Motorola Droid X source code released, hackers rejoice (sort of)
IntoMobile (blog)
... code for their best device to date, the Verizon Motorola Droid X. This is pretty exciting if you're a developer or hacker, but there are a few hang ups. ...
Motorola Offers Up Droid X Source CodeThe Next Web

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Researchers Hack the Internet to Keep Us Safe - Black Web 2.0

Hacker News - Fri, 07/30/2010 - 4:47pm

Washington Post

Researchers Hack the Internet to Keep Us Safe
Black Web 2.0
... Hat Technical Security Conference was this week and as you would expect, it was jam-packed with internet security geeks, researchers…and hackers alike. ...
Attacking the edges of secure Internet trafficThe Associated Press
Black Hat Conference Presenters Poke Holes in SSLWeb Host Industry Review
Twenty-Four More Reasons Not To Trust Your Browser's "Padlock"Forbes (blog)
SC Magazine US
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Hackers show how to build and beat a lie detector - VentureBeat

Hacker News - Fri, 07/30/2010 - 4:00pm

Hackers show how to build and beat a lie detector
VentureBeat
Hackers at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas showed they could build a lie detector and beat it. In the presentation, hackers who went by the ...

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MS preps emergency patch for Windows shortcut peril - Register

Hacker News - Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:28pm

MS preps emergency patch for Windows shortcut peril
Register
Warning of an uptick in attacks, Microsoft plans to issue an emergency update to patch a critical Windows vulnerability that hackers are exploiting to seize ...
Microsoft sets emergency Windows patch for MondayComputerworld

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