Josh Davis from Wired Science takes a closer look into the world of high tech crime.  Very fascinating video.

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BBtv has a good episode on very simple Iphone Jailbreaking.  Damien Stolarz says “It started out very complicated, but these days uh… if you’ve ever heard of a script kiddie, uh… hacking your iphone has gotten to script kiddie simplicity”
It turns out that with the click of a mouse using an application on a computer [...]

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First of all, be clear about what type of hacker your referring to… please!  The general term “hacker” can refer to different groups of computer professionals, and so often it is confused by the “press”  “White Hats” are “good hackers” they try to fight “Black Hats” who are generally criminals… most Linux users are “Hackers” [...]

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BoingBoing TV has an interesting episode about this emerging threat of RFID hacking related to your “smart” credit card. A hacker named Pablos Holman shows how easy it is with relatively cheap equipment. This video caught my attention because I actually do have one of these RFID enabled credit cards, as I’m sure [...]

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In a post yesterday I commented about an article in Information Week, part of my point is that hackers are sophisticated enough to get what they are after.  Motivation is the key, and the graphic below certainly supports this theory:
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Two days ago Information Week wrote an article about 3 medical students suggesting that there is a possibility of a pacemaker (with wireless capabilities) being susceptible to hacking. An excerpt from the Information Week article:
“Our investigation shows that an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (1) is potentially susceptible to malicious attacks that violate the privacy [...]

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