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Eclipse plugins are written using Eclipse. The excellent Plugin Development Environment (PDE) is what you’ll need so if you’re on Fedora, try yum install eclipse-pde . If you want to hack on an existing plugin, check it out into Eclipse. For example, say I wanted to hack on the specfile editor which is part of the Linux Distros project at eclipse.org. If it’s a good Eclipse project, it will provide...
A senior has been arrested on charges that he broke into the high school several times, hacked into administrative computers, changed grades and sent copies of test answers to dozens of students.
Lengner and fellow Whitehead postdoc Marius Wernig developed the new technique, which was published today in Nature Biotechnology. It’s technically daunting and — from the perspective of a public frustrated at delays in promised stem cell therapies — incremental. But it’s also the sort of keystone advance that lays the foundation for future breakthroughs. (Wired)
Back in April of last year a hacker going by the name of MaddoxX managed to hack into a 3rd party Valve server and steal a load of credit card details from Valve Cyber Cafe users. He then posted a file that contained credit card numbers, transaction histories and Valve’s bank balance – although this was not verified as being correct. At the time MaddoxX responded to e-mails sent by The Register in...
By Khristopher J. Brooks, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Jul. 3--Nine computers at the University of Nebraska at Kearney were hacked into through a computer based in the Republic of Slovenia, a university official said Wednesday.
There is something to say about the level of dedication that this probably required. Either this guy is a mad genius, or he enjoys punishing himself by trying to rekindle his lost youth. Either way, I think this video is absolutely brilliant. I cannot even recant how many thousands of times I must have karate chopped the guard stoically guarding the toilet by the grate early in the game. It’s amazing...
Hack a Day discovered that Roku has posted the source code for the Netflix Player: Certain components of the software included with the Netflix Player by Roku are subject to separate license terms, including "free" or "open source" software ("Separately Licensed Code"). As required by the terms of the relevant Separately Licensed Code licenses, Roku makes the "free" and "open source" code provided...
Posted by Danny Dover It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data . This week I continue by exposing how popular social media websites use algorithms to utilize user data. Although humans power social media, it is algorithms that provide the frameworks...
Not quite as funny as the congressional aide who wanted his alma mater hacked to boost his GPA, but this guy looking for someone to "help me crack this e-mail" gets strung along nicely . primarily...
Gray Hat Hacking:The Ethical Hacker’s Handbook SecondEdition Prevent catastrophic network attacks by exposing security flaws, fixing them, and ethically reporting them to the software author. Fully expanded to cover the hacker’s latest devious methods, ‘Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker’s Handbook, 2nd Edition’ lays out each exploit alongside line-by-line code samples, detailed countermeasures,...
"QUANTUM SHOT" #442 link Reality Hacking - with geeky flare! If reality is truly made up of highly compressed information and/or is holographic in nature then we should be able to hack our physical world just like a large computer system. "The Reality Hacker" site is taking all the cool new theoretical spiritual/scientific blends out of the seemingly endless discussion stage and getting down to some...
Linux is a hacker’s dream computer operating system. It supports tons of tools and utilities for cracking passwords, scanning network vulnerabilities, and detecting possible intrusions. I have here a collection of 10 of the best hacking and security software tools for Linux. Please always keep in mind that these tools are not meant to harm, [...]
In order to build up a nest egg for a start-up project, French programmer Steve Rigano began selling HP, SAP, and Windows 0day vulnerabilities online for substantial sums of money. The kicker? Rigano was an HP security consultant and on the HP payroll. The 0day trade is considered by security experts to be something akin to [...]
Recognized Enterprise Architect and 30-Year Government Veteran Brings
Expertise to Growing EA Practice
CHANTILLY, Va., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Citizant, one of the Washington
region's leading providers of government professional technical solutions,
today announced that Beverly Hacker, former Chief Architect at the U.S.
Departments of Treasury and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has joined
the...
