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more about #hackers more comments → MrInBetween: He changed all his passwords to FBIMoron. And no one would have guessed, til now. more » Glib and Bitchy: Treasury secretary Geithner almost lost his appointment because couldn't do his taxes. FBI chief almost falls for Internet fraud. It's like mom said: ... more » naugahydeinplainsight: It's Willie Sutton all over again. Why are the scammers all on the Internet? Because that's where the money is! more » celery: So 654321 is okay? Phew. more » Tremonius: I've been told I'm quite vulnerable. I use that tree sort in my neighbor's yard when I was growing up and add in there some numbers for letters and an... more » Dictator for Life: I've always wondered how people who use a different password on every site remember them. I have trouble remembering which ones I've had to add a num... more » ceilingFANBOY: Phew, it's a good thing my password is onetwothreefourfivesix more » mexiback: You would think that using 123456 is too obvious and stupid so maybe you're the only smartass who would actually use. You and millions of others. more » BookishLookish: My password is always HamNoFuxHrdr more » Voyou_Charmant: "first thing any decent hacker will try" UGH. It's not "hacking" when you simply type in the log in information. Guessing/knowing a password is not... more » LittleLolly: Bosco. more » snugbug: Charles Bukowski quotes make for the best passwords. No way any form of artificial intelligence can figure out how to pair words like that. more » blix: No more passwords for me. I can't afford another cat. more » Lord Humungus: That's the kind of password an idiot would put on his luggage. -Lord Helmet more » MyNameIsChris: The best password is still, and always will be, "password." more » -
#hackers
FBI Director Chastised by Wife for Being Common Internet Sucker
Robert Mueller promises to keep vigilantly fighting internet scammers. The FBI chief also promises not to be so gullible himself, online, which should be easy, since his wife just banned him from internet banking, for being a huge idiot. More » -
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Your Password, '123456,' Sucks
An analysis of 10,000 Hotmail passwords obtained in a phishing attack reveals that the most common password is "123456," which is pretty much the first thing any decent hacker will try to guess. Your password probably sucks, too. More » -
#foundpoetry
Fox News Twitter
Well, probably hacked. Either hacked or Fox decided to break the news themselves that "Sean Hannity Blows his mom." Update: More »HackedSpoofed -
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AT&T Knows More About Hacking Than World's Most Famous Hacker
To the government, Kevin Mitnick was "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." To the data-shuffling dimwits at AT&T, he's just a confused and annoying customer, who is totally making things up about his phone being hacked. More » -
#foreignaffairs
Is Twitter Under Attack from Russia?
Twitter continues to be flaky today. Par for the course on the overcrowded microblogging service, right? But Twitter claims it is the victim of elaborate hack attacks that "appear to have been geopolitical in motivation." That's actually true! More » -
#whatsacomputer
Lame 'Hackers' Continuing to Run Wild
A DDoS attack is one of the oldest, simplest, and lamest ways to "hack" anything, but lost in the news of recent attacks on Gawker and Twitter has been this even lamer "hack" of Congressional websites. More » -
#explanations
We Were Attacked By Dastardly Hackers!
Well here's your last (Hopefully!) technical difficulties update: According to a memo sent out tonight by our IT team, the recent Gawker Media server problems were the result of a DDOS attack against Consumerist. [Image via] -
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AT&T: We Blocked 4Chan for Criminality, Not Offensiveness
Everyone got upset earlier because it looked like AT&T had banned notorious website 4chan for hosting tasteless content and maybe for inventing annoying memes. But no! The site was blocked for a purported hack attack against AT&T.
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#4chan
AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
AT&T, for reasons unknown at this point, has blocked user access to portions of 4chan, the online hangout for the world's most notorious cyber-terrorists. And they thought iPhone customers were a pain in their ass! This will end badly. More » -
#businessmodels
Twitter Dreams of Being a Cash Machine, Leaked Docs Reveal
For three years, Twitter made no money. But the microblogging company will supposedly be taking in more than $1 million per month by the end of this year and twenty times that much in 2010. Ah, the miracle of spreadsheets. More » -
#newspaperwars
Rupert Murdoch's UK Papers in Huge Phone Hacking Scandal
British authorities are launching an investigation into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers paid more than $1.5 million in hush money to try to cover up the fact that they were illegally hacking into cell phones in pursuit of stories. More » -
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Kim Jong Il More Web Savvy Than The Average Despot
Remember North Korean's deranged little troll leader, Kim Jong Il, the one firing missiles into the Pacific lately like a ten year-old with bottle rockets on New Year's Eve? Well, he's been hacking into American and South Korean government computers! More » -
#security
Entire U.S. Government Under Hacker Attack
Security experts have to admit they kind of admire him, the hacker who is bizarrely attacking every last boring part of the U.S. government, online. His mysterious army is living the American Dream, really. More » -
#crime
Sarah Palin Craves 'Hacking' Justice, Endless Martyrdom
After enduring vicious hate attacks by David Letterman, Barack Obama and random Photshop-wielding bloggers, Sarah Palin caught a moment to remind everyone, via Twitter, that tomorrow her email "hacker" stands trial in Tennessee. Remember him? He was so terrible! More » -
#trendwatch
Server Trouble? Blame Iran
Is your company's Web server hosed again? Give your beleaguered sysadmins and programmers a break and blame hackers. Preferably Iranian hackers. It's all the rage! Just ask The Atlantic and Boing Boing. More » -
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Did Someone Hack Into the New York Times Twitter Account?
Earlier tonight I received an email from Gawker's eagle-eyed publisher Nick Denton (Seriously, nothing gets by this guy!) with an iPhone screengrab that contained an ad for naked webcam action on the Times' Twitter feed. More » -
#politics
Why Can't Obama Find a Good Geek?
The White House has tapped two D.C.-area techies to run the government's tech infrastructure. His CIO, Vivek Kundra, turned out to have a rap sheet. Now his CTO Aneesh Chopra, has a drug problem. More » -
#hackers
The Latest Facebook Scam
Oh no! There's a site which tricks you into handing over your personal information for its own nefarious, moneymaking schemes! It's called Facebook. Oh, also, people are all upset because FBstarter.com is stealing their passwords.
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#leaks
Salma Hayek's Hacked Emails Reveal Celebrity's Quotidian Existence
Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!) More » -
#mediacrack
Oh Just Let 4Chan Run The News
In your hacked Wednesday media column: Rachel Maddow's less fascinating, 4Chan's smarter than Time, online news fails, and newspaper layoffs reported not in newspapers: More »
