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RSS hackHack your ride, install a media PC, and be ready for your next road trip
White Paper You don't have to buy a new luxury SUV or mini-van to get the benefits of an in-car media personal computer; you can just hack your current vehicle. On a long road trip, keeping the family engaged, entertained, and most... [16 May 2006]
Hack attacks and soap boxes
Comment Now that's a hack with style that had us laughing down the aisles (of Waitrose). A spokeswoman for the charity explained that a 'friendly hack' was suspected. A director of the charity's ISP, Squaremark... [28 Aug 2000]
Windows XP Hacks: Hack Your Way Through the Interface
White Paper Hidden in the mazes of the Registry are countless ways to hack XP's interface. The system tray, also called the notification area, is the small area on the farright side of the taskbar, in which utilities and programs... [10 Oct 2007]
Hack your way to a faster, stronger, better Yahoo!
White Paper The hacks included in the download include:Hack 6: Translate Any Page with Yahoo! Hack 39: Monitor Your CommuteHack 65: Add a Content Tab to Yahoo! Get more out of Yahoo! with these three hacks. Yahoo! [19 May 2006]
Hack Skype to reveal a plethora of technical details about each call
White Paper This hack from Skype Hacks: Tips & Tools for Cheap, Fun, Innovative Phone Service, by Andrew Sheppard explains how to modify the config.xml configuration file to reveal the technical details about your Skype calls,... [19 May 2006]
Hack Skype to make phone calls directly from your Web browser
White Paper This hack from Skype Hacks: Tips & Tools for Cheap, Fun, Innovative Phone Service, by Andrew Sheppard explains that there are three ways to make Skype calls directly from within a Web browser.The skype URL prefixThe... [19 May 2006]
MI5 plugs website flaw that left site open to hack attack
News However, the government service insisted the website had been secured quickly, and that at no time had any intelligence operatives been exposed by the hack. MI5 has closed up a flaw on its website that could have opened... [30 Jul 2009]
iPhone 'data-stealing' hack claimed
News This is the first serious attempt to hack the device, although hackers started work on the device within days of its launch. In response to news of the hack, Apple said: "Apple takes security very... [24 Jul 2007]
'Stupid' administrators left Davos open to hack attack
News The hacker copied private data about the Forum's participants onto a CD-ROM, which was sent to the media who verified the hack as genuine. The attack - for which a suspect has been arrested - was apparently made easy by... [05 Mar 2001]
Apple fixes 'hack-a-Mac hole'
News Apple's fix comes just over a week after the vulnerability was used to grab a $10,000 prize and a MacBook Pro in a hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Apple has released a... [02 May 2007]
Gates among victims of data hack
News In terms of attribution the Telegraph reports that the hack was the work of 'anti-globalisation' protestors. Among the 1,400 people affected - who had all attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland - are... [05 Feb 2001]
Tasteless hack leaves web users fuming
News The hack is a tasteless slap in the face for web users still reeling from Tuesday's attacks. The reader reports that NetNames responded to the hack "pretty well", resolving the problem within an hour of... [14 Sep 2001]
Chip and PIN hack attack demoed
News Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, have demonstrated a hack that could compromise a supposedly tamper-proof chip and PIN terminal by relaying card information between... [06 Feb 2007]
US banks a major target for hack attacks
News The survey, by research firm Evans Data found that 27 per cent of US and Canadian financial institutions suffered a hack attempt during 2001 whereas the figure for non-financial companies was 12 per cent. [23 Jan 2002]
Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs
News According to Richard Clayton, a Cambridge University computer security expert, it has been legal for the police to hack into suspect systems without a warrant since 1995, when a 1994 amendment of the Computer Misuse Act... [05 Jan 2009]
