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Anonymous Hacks Syrian President’s Email Accounts

Mr. Pink — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:41:42 +0000

Anonymous has released hundreds of damaging e-mails stolen from a web server used by Syrian President (and murderer) Bashar al Assad as well as members of his cabinet.

The group claims that many of the account passwords, including al Assad’s, were 12345.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you probably know that this is the guy who’s been ordering the slaughter his own people, who want him out of office.

Hacker Publishes Symantec’s pcAnywhere Source Code

Mr. Pink — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000

A hacker who goes by YamaTough and claims to be affiliated with Anonymous published a torrent containing 1.27GB of source code for Symantec’s pcAnywhere remote desktop application today following a failed $50,000 extortion attempt last night.

Computer World has the details but the basic story is that this YamaTough fellow tried to get Symantec to pay him to keep quiet about a secret backdoor in their source code that allows the federal government to eavesdrop on Symantec customers. Symantec called the FBI, who (unsuccessfully) posed as Symantec employees in a bid to bring the hacker down.

Chainsaw + AK-47 = Wat

Mr. Pink — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:08:46 +0000

This is just ridiculous. Awesome, yes. But ridiculous nonetheless.

Unauthorized Android App Store Coming Soon

Mr. Pink — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:45:51 +0000

Koushik Dutta, a member of the team that brought us CyanogenMod and the creator of ClockworkMod, just announced that he is in the process of creating an app store that will be home to apps that have been banned from Google’s official Android Market.

The new store will include customs ROMs, retro gaming emulators pulled due to copyright complaints, unofficial tethering apps, Visual Voicemail apps, one-click rooting apps, and all of the other goodies that Google says they can’t feature in their store.

Untethered Jailbreak For iPhone 4S and iPad2

Mr. Pink — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:15:37 +0000

The guys at team Greenpois0n have finally done it: an untethered jailbreak that works for both the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. No more restrictions! Woo! It’s called Absinthe and it works on the iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0 and 5.0.1 and the iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1

Hackers Steal Symantec Source Code

Mr. Pink — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:41:52 +0000

Symantec confirmed today that a group known as the Lords of Dharmaraja ripped source code for two of the company’s flagship products from a military intelligence agency in India.

The group claims in a Pastebin that they discovered source belonging to a dozen companies which have signed agreements with the Indian TANCS programme and CBI.

Symantec’s competitors must be absolutely giddy right about now.

gAtari 2600: Chiptune Hero

Mr. Pink — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:35:29 +0000

I’m speechless. This guy is an absolute genius, both technologically and musically. If he were to put out an album, I would throw my money at him.

Anonymous Hacks Top Security Firm Stratfor

Mr. Pink — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:35:01 +0000

Anonymous spread a little bit of Christmas joy yesterday by announcing that they managed to breach Stratfor, one of the top security firms in the United States. Apparently, they’d been storing a lot of critical data in the clear. Whoops?

According to the group’s official Twitter feed, they managed to snag a small fortune worth of Stratfor client data – including government agencies and major corporations such as the U.S. Defense Department, Army, Air Force, law enforcement agencies, top security contractors and technology firms like Apple and Microsoft.

Kindle Fire Loaded With CyanogenMod Rom

Mr. Pink — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:39:42 +0000

Kindle Fire owner and XDA forum member JackpotClavin claims that he has successfully loaded the CM7 rom to his tablet. He hasn’t shared his method yet and there are a couple of big technical issues but the fact alone that he was able to do it is huge news.

Columbia Universities Discover Critical Flaw In HP Printers

Mr. Pink — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:33:04 +0000

A team of researchers at Columbia University claim to have discovered a critical security flaw in HP printers that’s virtually impossible to fix and it could pose a physical threat to the safety of people and property under the right circumstances.

In short, it’s theoretically possible to hack into a vulnerable device and overload it to the point that it catches fire. Likely? No. But it’s still scary as hell to think that this is even possible.