Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts

A century ago, at the dawn of food safety laws, inspection amounted to little more than opening a bin of flour and looking for something wiggly.

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Chaotic Nablus: Testing Ground for Abbas

The Palestinian president has chosen the West Bank's most chaotic city to show he's in control, winning U.S. praise Thursday for beefing up his security forces here as part of an attempt to reassure Israel that he can implement a future peace deal.

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Iran Hard-Line Regime Cracks Down on Blogs

On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country. Compared to others, Derakhshan is lucky.

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Quantum computers not just a pipe dream. The new computer threat on the horizon that needs our complete attention.

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Cyberintruders used the Internet to crack into at least 18 computer servers at the World Bank Group last July.

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In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked. After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday that their online activities were hijacked without them catching on.

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A Briton accused of hacking into top-secret military computers has vowed to fight extradition to stand trial in the US after losing a court appeal. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers.

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In an age where JavaScript is so ubiquitous that some websites won't even load if you don't enable in your browser, cross-site scripting hacks are everywhere - letting malicious or merely mischievous hacker create links that have some very unintended consequences on websites that …

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MUNICH, Germany — The Chaos Computer Club (Hamburg, Germany) has cracked the encryption scheme of NXPs popular Mifare Classic RFID chip. The device is used in many contactless smartcard applications including fare collection, loyalty cards or access control cards.

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Credit cards that contain an RFID tag seem like they offer a world of convenience, but it turns out that they're pretty convenient for hackers as well. It really doesn't take much for someone to steal your credit card information, as evidenced in the video below.

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Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight world forever beyond our ken? Not really.

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What you don't know about NECK CRACKING

Some may have thought in the past that the satisfying sound and feeling that comes from neck cracking was natural, but recent studies show that neck cracking can lead to slipped discs in your spine or strokes.

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Is Microsoft trying to thwart DVD-ripping on PCs using Windows Vista with the new beta of Vista Service Pack 1? As I tested the public beta release of Vista SP1, I noticed the update crippled a popular DVD cracking program called DVD43.

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Swedish security expert Dan Egerstad was arrested and questioned by agents of the Swedish National Police during a raid on his apartment earlier this week.

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The BBC's Jonathan Kent attends the Hack In The Box conference in Malaysia to hear about the dangers ethical hackers are starting to uncover.

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A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government's new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes. Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government's filter, released on Tuesday.

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Google has become so ubiquitous in many people's daily lives that it serves as the all-encompassing information source on how to do nearly anything: jump a car, tie a tie, fold a pocket square, remove ketchup stains. Oh, and crack open a safe to steal $12,000.

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The cooky hacking kids over at IRC channel #iphone claim to have gained full ownership of the iPhone filesystem. In an update titled "How to Escape Jail," they highlight the technical steps required to enable custom ringtones, wallpapers and more for your iPhone.

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A worm on the Meebo network could affect thousands of people in seconds. And the code already exists. Scared yet? Meebo's been alerted, and the simple fix has yet to be made. For more, see my article on the topic here.

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SlySoft Releases AnyDVD HD, Cracks HD DVD AACS Protection

SlySoft, a software company based in Antigua, announced the first official release of AnyDVD HD which "supports HD DVD and AACS". It makes it possible to get around the previously uncrackable AACS copy protection of the new HD-DVD generation with a few simple clicks of the mouse.

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You know how we were all waiting on someone to figure out where AACS was hiding those dagnab private keys? BackupHDDVD seemed to work as advertised, but it needed access to the hard-coded "Volume Unique Keys" that unlock the encryption of each HD DVD disc.

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Comments levelled at Redmond, which all show up as convoluted extraneous domains, include slurs along the lines of microsoft.com.will.be.beaten.with.my.spanner.net and microsoft.com.is.a.steaming.heap.of.@!$%#ing-bull@!$%#.net as well as the apparently pro-open source comment: micr …

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If you're running a vulnerable version of the Linux kernel, now would seem to be a good time to update to a newer, patched one...

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Earlier this month, a cracker gained access to a Sacred Heart University computer and was possibly able to obtain Social Security Numbers and other personal information for some 130,000 people--including both me and my girlfriend. Potiential victims were notified by mail.

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Crackers beware....all that looks like mutton...may not be!

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The god of OSx86 hacking strikes again

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"A well known cryptographer has applied power analysis techniques to crack passwords for the most popular brand of RFID tags.

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Playstation Portable (PSP) 2.5 firmware has been cracked and is able to run "homebrew" applications. This is 1 version away from the latest firmware, 2.6

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