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24Oct Hacking Coke Machines Explained

Thanks to ch0pstickninja for teaching the world about the menu, and for Fire for assisting with research.

Coke vending machines are everywhere. They’re getting more and more like regular computers
with LEDs that show little “ICE COLD” messages and whatnot. Well, there’s a lot more to those little built-in computers than you may think. Included in the [...]

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24Oct HackThisSite

Hack This Site is a free, safe and legal training ground for hackers to test and expand their hacking skills. More than just another hacker wargames site, we are a living, breathing community with many active projects in development, with a vast selection of hacking articles and a huge forum where users can discuss hacking, [...]

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24Oct How To Become A Hacker

 
What Is a Hacker?
The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term ‘hacker’, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits. If you want to know how to become a hacker, though, only two are really relevant.
There is a community, a shared culture, of expert [...]

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23Oct Duplicating a key from only a picture

Picture this, You spot a keyring laying on a desk. You for whatever reason would really like a copy of that key.  Your ninja-like reflexes kick in as you fling a quarter out of your pocket next to the key. Slyly, you use nothing more than a cell phone camera, to quickly snap a picture [...]

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21Oct Keyboard Sniffers to steal data

 
By analysing the signals produced by keystrokes, Swiss researchers have reproduced what a target typed.
The security researchers have developed four attacks that work on a wide variety of computer keyboards.
The results led the researchers to declare keyboards were “not safe to transmit sensitive information”.
The attacks were dreamed up by doctoral students Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain [...]

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18Sep Hackers put out of action one CERN website: related news

The Greek hackers have put out of action one of sites of the European organisation of nuclear researches (CERN) - cmsmon.cern.ch. Breaking has occurred last week in day of successful start of the accelerator the TANK (Big Adronnogo Kollaydera, LHC). Hackers have laughed over managers of a site, asserting, that “trousers” have taken off from [...]

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18Sep CERN hacked before Big Bang

NEW DELHI: When the whole world’s attention was on the much-publicised `Big Bang‘ on September 10 — particle collider tests are actually a few weeks away — a motley group of `grey hat‘ hackers from Greece managed to crack into CERN’s (The European Organisation for Nuclear Research) network.
Though the hackers did not cause much harm, [...]

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18Sep Hackers breach Cern security

A Greek hacking crew has come close to getting into the controls of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which went live on Wednesday.
The hackers managed to breach Cern’s network defences and got into the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment. There they left a file reading: ‘GST: Greek Security Team. We are 2600 - don’t mess with [...]

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18Sep CERN Hackers Read Secret E-mail That Says World Will End First Week Of October

Dear Sebastian,
How they laughed at us at school. How they called us geeks and squares and laughed at our haircuts and glasses. How they ridiculed us because we could do the Rubik’s cube and name all the dinosaurs.
Oh, remember how the girls mocked our shitty shoes? Our clothes? Accused us of stalking? Well my friend [...]

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17Sep Student faces charges for hack-and-tell

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A 20-year-old student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, faces criminal charges after he allegedly breached the security of the school’s network and then sent a 16-page report detailing the security issues and potential solutions to network administrators and other students.
The student, identified as Ottawa resident Mansour Moufid in an article in [...]

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