Hacks

Have you ever seen your friend post a bulletin on MySpace about how they made a $1000 on the weekend? It's the first sign your friend's MySpace account has.  

Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 5 January 2010 at 12:57:00 Security experts highlight dangers of cross site scripting attacks Security experts are warning web site administrators to be more alert to the dangers of cross site scripting (XSS) attacks after it was revealed that the Spanish EU presidency site...  

The websites of two Boulder synagogues were defaced Saturday by a hacker who associated the Jewish community with a terrorist organization, according to the company that monitors the websites. A hacker claiming the name Waja (Adi Noor) hacked the Bonai Shalom and Har HaShem congregations' websites and posted anti-Semitic messages.  

More than a week after hackers defaced a government Website, the site of another agency was despoiled early Wednesday, with the offenders claiming to be an Indonesian group. Visitors to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Website were greeted with an image of the Grim Reaper and a message in Indonesian. “HACKED BY ANDRIECOM ... HACKER-NEWBIE.ORG, Indonesian Hacker-Newbie Community," the English parts of the messages on the...  

As mentioned yesterday, calendar publishing is having problems and asking for passwords frequently. We know the cause of the calendar problem is a buggy server. But what about all of the other times Outlook can’t seem to remember the Live password? I know from experience if the Internet connection is bad and Outlook can’t reach the mail server, it will ask for the password.Craig shared his experience and it may account for some of the password...  

An Israeli hacker claims to have broken the copyright protection on Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, reports say. The hack will allow the ebooks stored on the reader to be transferred as pdf files to any other device. The hacker, known as Labba, responded to a challenge posted on Israeli hacking forum, hacking.org. It is the latest in a series [...]  

RockYou, which provides widgets popular with MySpace and Facebook users, has been hacked and 32.6m users are being urged to change their passwordsIf you've used any applications or widgets from RockYou, formerly RockMySpace, then as a precaution you should change your email and social networking passwords. The site has been hacked, and around 32.6m passwords may have been compromised. Unfortunately, the passwords were held in plain text...  

In previous posts, we showed how to access a file through the input tag or through the Drag and Drop mechanism. In both cases, you can use XMLHttpRequest to upload the files and follow the upload progress. Demo