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Hackers based in Turkey penetrated two U.S. Army Web servers and redirected traffic from those Web sites to other pages, including one with anti-American and anti-Israeli messages, according to a report in InformationWeek.

The hackers, who go by the group name "m0sted," breached a server at the Army's McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma on January 26 and a server at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Transatlantic Center in Winchester, Va., on September 19, 2007, the report said.

Investigators believe an SQL injection attack was used to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server … Read more

Natali brings our discussion of the MEMS-based accelerometer technology to a screeching halt when she suggests it be used in bed. This is a clear demonstration of how much more mature Natali is than Rafe or myself. In other news, we discover the true meaning of Bing and ponder the sanity of a new Mac-clone maker.

U.S. to set out cyber security plan http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8073654.stm http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10251898-38.html

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We've seen keyboards integrated into pants before (in this edition of DO NOT CRAVE), but we're willing to give it another chance because Brooklynite Zach Hoeken actually made these himself.

Zach spawned the keyboard pants idea at Sunday's Fashion Hacking Day sponsored by NYC Resistor, a collective that brings hackers together to share knowledge and collaborate on creative projects. Instead of throwing away a flexible silicone keyboard he had lying around the house, he decided to cut it in half and sew it onto a pair of shants.

Hoeken lists the required tools and outlines a basic … Read more

This post was updated at 2:16 p.m. PDT with comment from an outside database security software vendor.

Hackers broke into the University of California at Berkeley's health services center computer and potentially stole the personal information of more than 160,000 students, alumni, and others, the university announced Friday.

At particular risk of identity theft are some 97,000 individuals whose Social Security numbers were accessed in the breach, but it's still unclear whether hackers were able to match up those SSNs with individual names, Shelton Waggener, UCB's chief technology officer, said in a press … Read more

Hackers have broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration several times in recent years, according to an Inspector General report sent to the FAA this week.

In February, hackers compromised an FAA public-facing computer and used it to gain access to personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, on 48,000 current and former FAA employees, the report said.

Last year, hackers took control of FAA critical network servers and could have shut them down, which would have seriously disrupted the agency's mission-support network, the report said. Hackers took over … Read more

We speculate even more on the rumored large format Kindle, and get the announcement date wrong right from the start. What, we're supposed to read press releases? Also on the rumor front, we discuss Apple's interest in buying Twitter and Electronic Arts. Somethings just not sitting right about this one.

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New photos, details on the Gigundle http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10233431-1.html

Windows 7 RC has arrived this … Read more

I heard an interesting story from the guys at WildPackets, a provider of network and application performance monitoring, analysis, and troubleshooting that's faced with an unexpected dilemma.

More than 100,000 unique visitors a month--a large percentage of them, ne'er-do-well hackers--are downloading WildPackets' free drivers for reasons other than their intended purpose, capturing wireless network traffic for monitoring and analyzing network and application performance.

These drivers are often being used in conjunction with AirCrack, an open-source program that cracks WEP passwords, typically for the purpose of accessing password-protected wireless networks.

The people at WildPackets are trying to be … Read more

Now that we've passed through the still waters of Conficker's supposed April 1 activation date, the speculation continues about what the worm might yet hold for the future, and who's behind it.

ABC News online used the opportunity to take a look at some of the most infamous hackers--in the news site's words, "people who unleashed computer chaos--for better or worse"--and what they're up to today.

It focuses on just five most-wanted-character types from the U.S. computing scene. In order, the first four--all logical choices--are Fred Cohen (credited with the first-ever … Read more

The Pentagon should thank NASA hacker Gary McKinnon for "exposing the fragility" of U.S. military systems, according to Terry Waite.

Waite, who was held hostage in Lebanon for four years after being kidnapped in 1987, said that McKinnon's motives were "harmless," according to an article by Jack Doyle, a Press Association legal affairs correspondent.

"Gary is clearly a very clever chap," said Waite. "He has that unique ability to find his way through the Internet jungle and enter the inner recesses of the Pentagon. Full marks for his ingenuity. Was Gary … Read more