Word: hacker
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Tipped off by an online hacker, applicants to several of the nation’s top business schools, including Harvard Business School (HBS), could access internal files on the schools’ websites and ascertain their admissions status a month early...
...anonymous hacker known as “brookbond,” who defined himself as a male who specializes in information technology and software security, posted the instructions on Business Week Online’s technology forum at 12:15 a.m., early yesterday...
...didn't already think the life of Paris Hilton was a cautionary tale, consider the events of last week. A hacker swiped revealing photos and celebrity phone numbers from the reality-TV star's mobile phone and posted them on the Web, forcing Hilton to apologize to friends and family for the invasion of privacy, and offering the rest of us a valuable lesson: your mobile phone is more vulnerable than you ever realized. "What you have in your hand is a small, powerful computer connected to a public network," says Aloysius Cheang of the Singapore-based information-security nonprofit...
...around numbers for Anna Kournikova or Eminem in our address book, phones are often used to store sensitive information, says Adam Laurie, chief security officer for the London-based security firm The Bunker?including PIN numbers, alarm codes, and even safe combinations that could be lifted by a determined hacker...
Psst! Want to buy some pictures of Paris Hilton naked? Oh, you already have some. To the glee of Internet voyeurs, someone hacked Hilton's Sidekick II, a wireless phone/camera/PDA/Internet terminal sold by T-Mobile. The hacker then spilled its contents online, including numbers of celeb pals such as Ashlee Simpson and Eminem, along with photos of a topless Hilton cavorting with Eglantina Zingg, a VJ for MTV Latin America. The intruder didn't hack the Sidekick; he nailed the server that stored Hilton's personal data...