The origins of what we think of as modern hacker culture emerged from the same California milieu as the 1960s counterculture, and it shows. In 1973, programmers from Berkeley who had worked on the time-sharing Berkeley Operating System launched Community Memory, the first public bulletin board system, and prominent among these pioneers was Jude Milhon, […]
Let’s say you want to hack Jack Dorsey‘s online banking account. Where to start? His username? Challenging… his online banking username is a secret. But how about his Twitter account? Oh, that’s easy. It’s @jack. That’s the problem with “social” usernames — they’re meant to be known. Another problem, Twitter appears to validate e-mail addresses: […]
In the quarterly McAfee Threats Reports we offer our readers some charts on the prevalence of messaging botnets. For the last quarter of 2012, we announced the continuing decline in global messaging botnet infections as well as in former leaders Festi and Cutwail (see page 23).In this blog, I will detail the evolution of the […]
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