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LivingSocial has been Hacked

Are you using LivingSocial? At the top of their website today is an important notice for customers that says “if you haven't already updated your LivingSocial password, please update it now”. According to CNN the LivingSocial website, which people use to get daily deals, suffered a cyberattack on some of its servers. Data for more than 50 million users may

55,000 Twitter Accounts Have Been Hacked

An anonymous source, (but not the hacker group that goes by the name “Anonymous”) has hacked more than 55,000 Twitter accounts. This includes the username and password of each of the compromised Twitter accounts. Was yours one of the thousands that were hacked? There is a huge list of the Twitter accounts that were affected that you can sort through.

Sony Issues Statement About the PlayStation Network

2010 and 2011 have been rough years for Sony and for PS3 owners who use the popular PlayStation Network for online gaming.  The service has come under attack, and been taken down, on more than one occasion, and for extended time periods.  The latest attack began to hit the news yesterday, when it was learned that the service was again

How To Hack Mobile Phone Voicemail

As the fall-out from the News of the World scandal continues, many sources continue to inaccurately refer to "mobile phone hacking". The truth (as far as is known) was that it was the voicemail of the mobile phone that was hacked rather than the phone itself. There are two ways to do this - the first is to simply guess

“News of the World” Phone Hacking Scandal

News International today announced that this Sunday's edition of the News of the World newspaper would be the last edition and that the newspaper was closing down. Ostensibly the reason is that a phone hacking scandal had a irretrievably stained the name of the newspaper but the suspicion is that there's far more to the closure. For non-UK residents, it's an

Is it the Browser, or the People Using the Browser?

Another breach of security, at another big name.  Or is it?  The recent announced breach of email and personal information comes to us from Google and those with Gmail accounts.  The "attacks" have come from China, and affected "top U.S. officials."  But reading the fine print in all of the articles out there about this latest "breach," brings up the