http://hippestphone.com The place to see the latest trendy cell phones Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://hippestphone.com/disgruntled-ex-garage-employee-exploits-system-to-remotely-disable-more-than-100-cars/ http://hippestphone.com/disgruntled-ex-garage-employee-exploits-system-to-remotely-disable-more-than-100-cars/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:30:46 +0000 Nicholas Deleon http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=146810 Now here's a delightful story. A gentleman in Austin, Texas was laid off from his job as a car mechanic. The thing is, he was "pretty good with computers." So, in order to get petty revenge on his former employers, he used a system to remotely disable more than 100 cars. Fun!]]> http://hippestphone.com/disgruntled-ex-garage-employee-exploits-system-to-remotely-disable-more-than-100-cars/feed/ 0 http://hippestphone.com/hackers-cost-u-s-businesses-25-million-in-phishing-related-scams-in-2009/ http://hippestphone.com/hackers-cost-u-s-businesses-25-million-in-phishing-related-scams-in-2009/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:56 +0000 Nicholas Deleon http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=144601 From now on, any story about "hackers" or "hacking" will be accompanied by a link to the song "Halcyon And On And On," as made famous by the movie Hackers. With that in mind: who made more money last year, Wall Street fat-cats or hackers? The U.S. FDIC says that online scams cost businesses $25 million last year. These scams include phishing and other associated nonsense, which you really ought to be smart to nowadays.]]> http://hippestphone.com/hackers-cost-u-s-businesses-25-million-in-phishing-related-scams-in-2009/feed/ 0 http://hippestphone.com/world-of-warcraft-hackers-embrace-man-in-the-middle-attacks/ http://hippestphone.com/world-of-warcraft-hackers-embrace-man-in-the-middle-attacks/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:00:10 +0000 Nicholas Deleon http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=142392 Here's some troubling news for my fellow World of Warcraftplayers. It seems that hackers, account thieves, and other miscreants have now embraced man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks to further their evil ways. Blizzard says it's not a widespread issue, and it's rather difficult to pull off, but it's something y'all should be aware of.]]> http://hippestphone.com/world-of-warcraft-hackers-embrace-man-in-the-middle-attacks/feed/ 0 http://hippestphone.com/trying-to-track-down-those-chinese-hackers/ http://hippestphone.com/trying-to-track-down-those-chinese-hackers/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:00:33 +0000 Nicholas Deleon http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=141220 More news from that China hacking deal. Investigators have tracked the attacks that befell Google and other victims to two schools in China, one of which has ties to the Chinese military. Whether or not this was an officially sanctioned series of attacks, or merely a couple of comp-sci students testing out their skills, clearly nobody knows. That's the beauty of these hacks: there's not a chance in hell there's going to be a "smoking gun," giving the hosts of The Today Show a three minute segment on Chinese hacking.]]> http://hippestphone.com/trying-to-track-down-those-chinese-hackers/feed/ 0 http://hippestphone.com/more-bars-less-security-in-more-places-att-can%e2%80%99t-keep-out-script-kiddies-update/ http://hippestphone.com/more-bars-less-security-in-more-places-att-can%e2%80%99t-keep-out-script-kiddies-update/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:39:04 +0000 John Biggs http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=107839 http://hippestphone.com/more-bars-less-security-in-more-places-att-can%e2%80%99t-keep-out-script-kiddies-update/feed/ 0 http://hippestphone.com/police-try-to-trick-hackers-with-hilarious-results/ http://hippestphone.com/police-try-to-trick-hackers-with-hilarious-results/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:00:01 +0000 Nicholas Deleon http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=107180 Here's a fun story. Police in Australia thought they were being mighty clever when they took over an “underground hacking forum.” (The forum is r00t-y0u.org, though it seems to be down right now.) One of the hackers on the forum then retaliated by breaking into police computers using a simple SQL injection. Security fail.]]> http://hippestphone.com/police-try-to-trick-hackers-with-hilarious-results/feed/ 0