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Hacking is the concept of discovering and using undocumented features of a piece of hardware or software. Although the concept itself assumes no malicious intent, hacking has long been ostracized by the media as an illegal activity.
Many aspects of hacking are complex, specialized and impossible to understand to a member of the general public without basically becoming a hacker themselves. Therefore to the general public hacking appears at best as a shady if not outright illegal activity.
As the term caught on, it became also used to describe a more knowledgeable approach to using anything as sites like Life Hacker and Mind Hacks (also a book) illustrate. Anyone learning to use a new cell phone would agree that many aspects of today's technology (and life in general) are so complex that to become a hacker in the eyes of an average person one only needs to locate and actually read a proper piece of documentation, in most cases openly available on the Web.
In many cases hacking also means an improvement to the piece of hardware or software in question. Many open-minded manufacturers actually encourage hacking of their products intending to learn from the published hacks both in terms of improving security and just general usability of their product.
You can find hacking being talked about at sites like Hack a Day and Secure Gear
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Original Technorati articles tagged “hacking”
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in ITPassword? No Barrier for a Hacker.
Yet another major website falls prey to a hacking attack. Were YOU affected?by jdredmond / on Apr 27, 2013 -
in BusinessIf a Company You Use Gets Hacked, Don't You Want to Know?
To Disclose or Not to Disclose a Hack Attack?by goldensylph / on Feb 22, 2013 -
in PoliticsCybergeddon Looms Large
Countries feel the need to buckle upby oldgoat1957 / on Jan 26, 2013
Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hacking”
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Chinese hackers back at work
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The Chinese government sponsored hackers are back in business : Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks using ...3 days ago -
Improv Everywhere: Talk Show Subway Car
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From Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere : For our latest mission, we converted a New York City subway car into a late night talk show set. Host Pat Cassels ( CollegeHumor ) interviewed random commuters from his desk as bandleader Evan Gregory ( The Gregory Brothers ) kept the car rocking. Created and Directed by ...3 days ago -
Latest People’s Republic of China Internet Controls & News from Down Under
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Good day from AusCERT - The latest Cyber Conflict news out the People’s Republic of China is very curious indeed and firmly supports the fact that Chinese State Sponsored hackers are targeting other international governments – including intelligence, military, and political objectives… Earlier today here in ...3 days ago -
After Hiatus, Chinese Hackers Take Aim at U.S. Targets
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Three months ago, security firm Mandiant revealed that an army unit of Chinese hackers was to blame for attacks on U.S. targets for at least six years, stealing corporate and government secrets. Now, after a period in which the group shut down part of its infrastructure and put operations on hold, the hackers are ...3 days ago -
Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks Against U.S.
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Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks using different techniques, according to computer industry security ...3 days ago -
VIDEO: Chinese Cyber Hackers at it Again, Says U.S.
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A cyber unit of China’s People’s Liberation Army reportedly resumed hacking U.S. targets. This article, “Chinese Cyber Hackers at it Again, Says U.S.”, is categorized as “World” and its copyright notice is “”. For more videos, visit our homepage . Kindle Paperwhite, 6", affichage haute ...3 days ago -
China Re-Starts Hacking Program
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This is important. According to a story in the New York Times today, the Chinese Army is back in the business of hacking into American computer systems to steal intellectual property and government security secrets. After a three month lull that coincided with a tongue lashing by the Obama administration ... ...3 days ago -
Golf futures trading at Rs. 25,427
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According to the latest figures available, the gold futures for May were trading 1.6 per cent or Rs. 408 lower at Rs. 25,427 per 10 gram this noon at the Multi Commodity Exchange. Gold futures for May have fallen for the seventh straight session in the Indian market. Gold prices have faced the pressure in the market ...3 days ago -
Government to issue clarifications on FDI in multi-brand retail
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The government in India is planning to release clarifications to the regulations relating to the foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail. Department of Industrial Policy and Planning officials have said that they have received a number of quarries from various global retail players for clarifications on ...3 days ago -
China Is Hacking the US Again
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Just three months after hacks by China’s People’s Liberation Army came to an abrupt halt, the country is once again attacking US targets reports the New York Times . Read more… Visit link: China Is Hacking the US Again3 days ago -
How to Train your Warjack: Embodied Cogs
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“Warjacks can’t really perform some of the simplest mathematical equations done by a calculator, yet can intuitively grasp the physics of the world by similar instincts as we use when catching a ball or throwing one. They are most certainly not adding machines” Embodied cognition is one of the most interesting ...3 days ago -
Chinese hackers renew cyberattacks on US targets after brief lull
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After a relative lull in activity, it looks as though the Chinese hacking group uncovered in a February security report has resumed its attacks on US targets. According to new information that security firm Mandiant submitted to The New York Times , attacks against identical, but unspecified, targets have been ...3 days ago -
Tumble Dry that Yahoo of All Its Money
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Dateline Headline, a comparison of the headlines of the major New York papers and a running tally of the best. Newspapers will be awarded from zero to ten points. Click on the headlines to see an image of each papers front page. The New York Post and Newsday cover the cop that accidentally shot the [...]3 days ago -
Chinese hackers at it again
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This post Chinese hackers at it again originally appeared on Truth About Bills In recent months hacks have been relatively quite however a new security report has shown that a Chinese hacking group is at it again. According to new information that security firm Mandiant submitted to The New York Times , ...3 days ago -
S4x13 Video: Recovering Siemens S7 Level 3 Passwords
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Eric Johansson from Management Doctors in Sweden brought over a great Siemens S7 demo rack to demonstrate some attacks on the Siemens S7 PLC family. At 7:45 Erik shows the Level 3 (highest security that controls read/write access) can be recovered by capturing the packets sent to the PLC. This was actually known ...3 days ago -
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The man who nearly broke the internet
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Sven Olaf Kamphuis is accused of global cybercrime, but Spanish police found him in a squalid flat with his name on the letterbox The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis, in the Catalan town of Granollers, the owners son snapped a picture with his ...3 days ago -
Chinese Cyber Warfare Continues
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The lead article in today’s New York Times, “Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets,” shows the difficulty of affecting long-standing Chinese policy that does not acknowledge intellectual property rights … or any rights whatsoever. How can we expect the same regime that carried out the Tiananmen Square ...3 days ago -
China Is Hacking the US Again
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Just three months after hacks by China’s People’s Liberation Army came to an abrupt halt, the country is once again attacking US targets reports the New York Times . Read more...3 days ago -
China Is Hacking the US Again
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Just three months after hacks by China’s People’s Liberation Army came to an abrupt halt, the country is once again attacking US targets reports the New York Times . Read more...3 days ago
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