A 50 year old Japanese air traffic controller decided to impress his friends -- by posting the flight itinerary of Air Force One on his personal blog.
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Sony Hires Former DHS Employee as New Security Officer
Sony is hiring a new chief information security officer, who formerly worked for the Department of Homeland Security. Hopefully making some personnel changes will help Sony repair their reputation following that whole hacking... thing.
Read More »Man Uses Facebook to Steal $57,000 from his Neighbors
This man needed money to fuel his gambling habit, so he figured out how to steal it from his neighbors. No, he wasn't a master thief, or a computer hacker. He just knew how to use Facebook.
Read More »Printable Sticker Will Keep Your Hard Drive Safe from the FBI
FAT (Free Art & Technology) has designed a sticker that lets you destroy your hard drive data at a moment's notice. Just don't forget the drill.
Read More »Scientists Stalking Twitter to Monitor Health Problems
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are interested in your life -- no, really. They sifted through over 2 billion public tweets, and came up with some really interesting information about certain health problems.
Read More »Fox News Twitter Feed Hacked
Hackers from a group calling themselves the "Script Kiddies" infiltrated the Fox News Politics twitter account, and published false reports that President Obama had been killed.
Read More »China Hates Internet, Blocks Google+ (Already)
Even though Google+ hasn't been officially released to the public yet, China has already banned it from their country. Will Google retaliate?
Read More »Tumblr Phishing Scam Steals Thousands of Accounts with Promise of pr0n
You really can get anything from someone if you promise them fake pr0n. Thousands of tumblr users have had their accounts compromised, by a tumblr phishing scam that uses the term "adult content" to get you to enter your login info. It's actually working.
Read More »Bioware’s Neverwinter Nights Server Hacked, Personal Data Stolen
Bioware's Neverwinter Nights forum server was hacked, putting the personal data of 18,000 users at risk. Don't worry, you only have to panic if you received an email.
Read More »Hackers Steal Personal Data from 1.2m SEGA Customers
In the wake of the high-profile hacking of Sony's PSN, SEGA has now announced that users of SEGA Pass have had their personal data stolen. This includes names, emails, birthdays and encoded passwords.
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