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OriginalDissent.com was hacked earlier this morning by a group called Subliminal Hackers. OriginalDissent was a large and popular white power forum. The Hackers left a message stating \"No hate site will be left untouched\" \"One website at a time, they will go down\". It is believed the defacement was left unpatched for over 7 hours with several hundred people viewing it. They also claimed responsibility for other attacks that have happened this year. No hackers revealed their names only the name of the group.
November 23, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- A flaw in Mozilla Corp.\'s Firefox browser makes it easy for cybercriminals to steal user information on Web sites where users create their own pages, such as MySpace.com. The attack was used in a MySpace phishing attack reported in late October. In that attack, users registered a MySpace account named login_home_index_html and used it to host a fake log-in page that exploited the flaw. Firefox developers rate this bug critical, according to an entry in the project\'s Bugzilla database. Read the full article here. A PoC/demonstration can be found here and technical information can be found here.
A sophisticated computer hacker had access to servers at wireless giant T-Mobile for at least a year, which he used to monitor U.S. Secret Service e-mail, obtain customers\' passwords and Social Security numbers, and download candid photos taken by Sidekick users, including Hollywood celebrities, SecurityFocus has learned. “ On July 28th the informant gave his handlers proof that their own sensitive documents were circulating in the underground marketplace they\'d been striving to destroy. †Read more here.
American computer programmer who has testified under oath, states he was hired by Congressman Tom Feeney in 2000 to create a prototype software package that could secretly rig an election. According to the programmer, the actual code is less than 100 lines and very simple to make, \"anyone could do it\". He says his prototype program could sway election results 51 / 49 to a specified side. Read more here.
According to the most recent update to security-firm Symantec\'s biannual Internet Security Threat Report, the last six months saw a significant uptick in the number of security vulnerabilities found in web browsers. Leading the way was Firefox, with 47 bugs discovered.
Researchers and hackers discovered 38 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, 12 in Safari, and seven in Opera.
Future commuters could be set to swap opening the morning paper for unfurling a laptop screen as the roll-up laptop takes one more step towards reality.
A team of engineers at the University of Cambridge have developed \'morphing materials\' which have the ability to retain up to three structures, meaning within five years\' time it could be possible to roll-up your laptop screen as easily as a newspaper.