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Iran Hacks Voice of America Websites

The digital arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has launched a successful cyber attack on the Voice of America, hijacking dozens of sites operated by the government-funded broadcaster. The group, which calls itself the Iranian Cyber Army, placed a message on VOA's Persian-language news site, demanding an end to U.S....

From Robot Controller to Digital Bra-Maker: The Many Hacks of Xbox Kinect

(Dec. 3) -- Three-dimensional video chat. Green screens without a green screen. Sophisticated 3-D-mapping robots. Real-time virtual bras. This might sound like a rundown of the new gizmos on display at January's Consumer Electronics Showcase, but all of these near-future gadgets are actually available inside a box -- an...

WikiLeaks Website Under Hacker Attack

(Nov. 30) -- The WikiLeaks whistle-blower website is under a powerful attack by computer hackers. Again. Today, the site was bumped out of service to U.S. and European users by a "distributed denial of service attack," or DDOS, a common method used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites, The Associated Press...

Barnaby Jack Ingeniously Hacks ATMs at Black Hat [VIDEO]

(July 29) -- "Jackpot!" That's the message that was displayed on the screen of an ATM as it spewed its entire reservoir of cash across the stage at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas Wednesday after a hacker easily bypassed its security features. And indeed, for hackers and crackers and unscrupulous...

Google v. China Timeline: A Search Giant Battles Censorship

Google's decision to tweak the access Chinese users have to its search data is just the latest twist in the lively history of relations between the world's largest search engine and the world's most populous country. January 2000: Launch of Baidu A pair of Chinese entrepreneurs who had studied abroad developed "Baidu,"...

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Hacking means finding out weaknesses in a computer or computer network and exploiting them, though the term can also refer to someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks.

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