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Name Game posted : Gizmodo Twitter Account Hacked by Clan VV3 (Video)Clan VV3, a group of hackers that specializes in “jacking” Twitter and YouTube accounts, has managed to take over the profile of...

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voxframe posted : Oh shit! That hurts, BAD!I've been nailed once for my own stupidity of putting my voip PBX on an internet facing network and forgot about it. Very similar stream of beginning...

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Name Game posted : How @Gizmodo Got Hacked and How You Should Defend YourselfIf you follow Gizmodo on Twitter, you may have noticed our account started spewing some garbage last night. We got hacked....

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Name Game posted : I personally don't think they brute forced into iCloud .»www.facebook.com/gizmodo/posts/4···ments=20How to access OS X's built in password generator! (self.apple)submitted 2 hours...

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Rocky67 posted : said by Name Game:I personally don't think they brute forced into iCloud . I don't believe it either. I think they got in some much easier way. I don't suppose we'll ever find out the...

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mackey posted : Dude seriously, this board supports quoting using the [bquote]stuff here[/bquote] tag. Please use it, I have absolutely no idea what's your words or what you just ripped from elsewhere....

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Name Game posted : Have any comments on the story..or are you just policing today.Click on the links and you will be ok.

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Snowy posted : said by Name Game:Have any comments on the story..or are you just policing today.Click on the links and you will be ok. I've got the same problem as mackey has with your quoting (or lack...

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Name Game posted : Try that edit.. you don't like stories happening in real time with offsite links.. hey ok by me.complaining even after you read a disclaimer cracks me up..but then neither of you...

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EGeezer posted : There's nothing like having a single point of vulnerability that links to multiple systems that only have cloud backups.

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Snowy posted : said by Name Game:Try that edit.. you don't like stories happening in real time with offsite links.. hey ok by me. I appreciate the effort.Part of my concern over who is being is quoted...

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Snowy posted : said by Name Game:complaining even after you read a disclaimer cracks me up..but then neither of you really ever start topics in the Forums. :D Editing a post after the person it was...

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Name Game posted : I understand..but you did not have to click since the disclaimer was there and still is.. so you knew who was the first person with the dangling participle ... and what was on...

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Name Game posted : Big problem with this forum is that on the first page one sees the Title and the poster in this form. Yes, I was hacked. Hard. by Name Game So if one honors the article and does not...

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Name Game posted : said by Snowy:said by Name Game:complaining even after you read a disclaimer cracks me up..but then neither of you really ever start topics in the Forums. :D Editing a post after the...

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Snowy posted : said by Name Game:Big problem with this forum is that on the first page one sees the Title and the poster in this form. Yes, I was hacked. Hard. by Name Game So if one honors the article...

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norwegian posted : Off topic:To you both deciding to post against the topic.• First I could ask for moderation of your cause as another user here.• Secondly, NameGame posts a lot more than most and...

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norwegian posted : So we guess that a weak password was cracked?Or the site has an exploitable hole unknown at present?The computer was hacked and the user keeps passwords stored in the standard...

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Snowy posted : said by norwegian:Off topic:... You put a lot of effort into all that, appreciated.Too bad it's not as factual as it might seem at a glance.e.g.,said by Name Game:How @Gizmodo Got Hacked...

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norwegian posted : Point taken, and guess we will have all our posts deleted shortly.I tend to think it was the title that frustrated you both more than the content and how it was posted. You can come...

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EGeezer posted : I like to use quote tags and find them helpful in presentation, but I have other foibles. Life is too precious to spend it worrying about them. Carry on! :D

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Name Game posted : Soo funny..I'll try to ask all the people who put out info on the net to please not do it in first person because snowy might think someone else wrote it...put it this way..if I post...

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Snowy posted : said by Name Game:...put it this way..if I post a link with info above it..the info came from that link..if there is additional words posted and you don't find them in the link then they...

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Name Game posted : You got it..hell of a lot better than having to force another member to pull up info in quotes themselves just to get the thread going and make a comment :D :D :D :D That might be...

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Snowy posted : You can continue to blame the forums formatting of threads & keep whining that "Well Johnny does it", but I've made my point, I'm done with this thread.Now go get the last word in,...

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Name Game posted : said by Snowy:You can continue to blame the forums formatting of threads & keep whining that "Well Johnny does it", but I've made my point, I'm done with this thread.Now go get...

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DannyZ posted : said by Rocky67:said by Name Game:I personally don't think they brute forced into iCloud . I don't believe it either. I think they got in some much easier way. I don't suppose we'll...

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tholly911 posted : Now that's a great reply!You used quotes to build up forum members and the usage of the quotes provided great clarity.The update itself is valuable information. I am not an Apple and...

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norwegian posted : said by DannyZ:Here's the update from his tumblr: quote:Update Three: I know how it was done now. Confirmed with both the hacker and Apple. It wasn’t password related. They got in...

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mackey posted : +1I don't know which is worse though, the social engineering of Apple or the recovering of data after a remote wipe :oI'm not too surprised the hacker is talking to him. Egos tend to do...

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Mango posted : Mat at least appears to be exponentially more calm than I would be, if someone from my computer manufacturer's tech support allowed a hacker to wipe three of my devices. If I were Apple,...

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DannyZ posted : said by Mango:If I were Apple, I'd be moving mountains to try to get his data back. Except that if his data is recoverable, it will show that the remote "wipe" available on iDevices is...

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Mango posted : I'm not familiar with the technology, but unless it does something as effective as a DoD-style wipe, it will be as adequate as a simple format.

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Name Game posted : This is what Mat's inbox looked like»www.emptyage.com/post/2871039354···-ipad-ol

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jabarnut posted : Wow...If I were Mat, I'd be going totally nuts. Bad scene!(Seems to be a lot of hacking going on these days...this thread got hacked pretty hard too). :D--I had a life once.....now I...

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Name Game posted : said by jabarnut:Wow...If I were Mat, I'd be going totally nuts. Bad scene!(Seems to be a lot of hacking going on these days...this thread got hacked pretty hard too). :D And the...

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HA Nut posted : More info...»www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/···hacking/and more...»www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/···e-phone/

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Rocky67 posted : This is an interesting story. I hope more people learn that nobody is looking out for their welfare unless they do it themselves and that they need to cover their own asses in the...

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I_H8_Spam posted : Story on the CNN front page. »money.cnn.com/2012/08/07/technol···pt=hp_t3

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Name Game posted : Thanks to you and HA Nut for keeping track of the updates as this story continues to unfold..your link really is scary..Mat did not do anything we would not normally do..but how many...

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Name Game posted : After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets»www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/···-freeze/

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Drunkula posted : Welcome to the cloud... Woz is probably correct. :p

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Name Game posted : Hiccups... ;)»www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/08···_freeze/

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EGeezer posted : Here's yet another article with a proposal to improve authentication security through "visual preferences" or "psychometrics".said by article :... Jakobsson has proposed an alternative...

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Name Game posted : »www.youtube.com/watch?v=603bceog···youtu.beThe credit card added to amazon was not stolen. It was made with one of the many available fake credit card number generators. Apparently...

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Name Game posted : Mat Honan Explains How He Got Hacked (MuckReads Podcast)»www.propublica.org/podcast/item/···hacking/ contains details on the conversations he had with the hacker--Gladiator Security...

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