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 Days after Facebook and Twitter added fuel to a revolt in Egypt, the Obama administration plans to announce a new policy on Internet freedom, designed to help people get around barriers in cyberspace while making it harder for autocratic governments to use the same technology to repress dissent. The State Department’s policy, a year in the making, has been bogged down by fierce debates over which projects it should support, and even more basically, whether to view the Internet primarily as a weapon to topple repressive regimes or as a tool that autocrats can use to root out and crush dissent. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will lay out the policy in a speech on Tuesday, acknowledged the Internet’s dual role in an address a year ago, and administration officials said she would touch on that theme again, noting how social networks were used by both protesters and governments in the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countr...

Several Ortonville-area websites had similar messages from hackers Monday morning, warning the website owner of its vulnerability. "Your site has been hacked by me because we love you and we want to warn you," the hacker's message read. James Ellis, of Brandon Computers, is in charge of Brandon Township's website, www.BrandonTownship.us . It was one of many sites sharing the same server that were hacked. "For several years I have been doing this, and this is the first time I've seen it," Ellis said. Ellis said he fixed the problem and that there is no personal information on the site that can be stolen by hackers. The other websites belong to mostly local churches, Ellis said. Jay Radcliff, a web securities specialist, said vulnerable websites are listed on the Internet. He said hackers can find the websites through simple searches. "It's kind of like graffiti," Radcliff said. "They mark their territory saying, 'Hey, yo...

Spanish police say they've arrested a hacker who threatened to go public with personal information he found in a Nintendo database on about 4,000 of the company's users. Nintendo's Spanish division, Nintendo Ibérica, was approached by the hacker, who was seeking to blackmail the company, Spain's Interior Ministry said Monday. The hacker had apparently found the company's database on the Internet, and he allegedly tried to cut a deal with Nintendo, threatening to both publish the information in an online forum and lodge a complaint with Spain's Data Protection Agency if his demands were not met. Nintendo contacted law enforcement about the issue in early February. The database contained personal information on about 4,000 users, the Interior Ministry said. Nintendo ignored his demands, and the hacker published some of the data in an online forum. He intended to eventually publish the entire database, the Interior Ministry said. Spanish authorities did not n...

Plextor has been hacked. Just days after announcing a new series of solid state drives, the digital storage company has found its U.S. site defaced by a digital vandal calling himself " ViciOuS ". The altered page declares "Hacked by ViciOuS", and includes a shout-out to fellow hackers, a link to what appears to be a hacker oriented website, and even a legally dubious claim to copyright. On Plextor's website, the attack appears to be limited to its U.S. site, as the company's European and Asian websites have been left unchanged. A search using snippets of text found on the defaced page shows that similar hacks have occurred on several other websites as well. The attack coincides with the U.S. launch of Plextor's new M2 line of SSDs, which supports the latest 6Gb/s SATA and offers some of the fastest speeds on the market. Whether the timing of this attack was intentional or merely a coincidence is undetermined.

The Australian and New Zealand shopping site of cosmetics retailer Lush has been hacked just weeks after a similar breach occurred on the UK site.  Credit card details and other intimate information of shoppers have been exposed. If you visit the Lush Cosmetics Australian  website  you will find a single banner page announcing that the site has suffered a "Privacy Breach."  This is contained as a single JPG image with no other links on the page.  In fact if you use your favourite search engine to find sub-pages, they all return a 404 error.  It would appear that the entire site has been removed from the server and the single banner page put in its place. In part, the site statement says: We are sorry to have to announce that the Lush Australian and New Zealand websites have been hacked.  We have been alerted today to advise us that entry has been gained and customer personal data may have been obtained by the hackers. We urgently advise custom...

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Beijing - A Chinese man cited by a US security firm as being linked to cyberspying on Western oil companies said on Friday his company rents server space to hundreds of hackers. The disclosure highlighted the pervasiveness of both professional and amateur hacking in China, a leading source of Internet crime. But it also left open the possibility that the hackers cited in a report Thursday by McAfee might be non-Chinese who concealed their identities by routing thefts through computers in China. The man cited by McAfee, Song Zhiyue, is a salesman for a company in the eastern city of Heze that rents server space. He said he has heard of Chinese hackers targeting US oil companies but he declined to comment on McAfee's report. It said Song provided crucial infrastructure to the hackers but wasn't believed to be the mastermind. “Our company alone has a great number of hackers” as customers, Song said in a telephone interview. “I have several hundred of them among all my customers.”...

Job seekers' identities compromised in massive data breach. The Irish job website RecruitIreland.com was hacked last week, resulting in breached systems and the theft of the credentials of 400,000 users. The website was temporarily taken offline after the breach was discovered last Tuesday. A statement on the website read that the company had informed Britain's Data Protection Commissioner. “The present indicators are that our database was breached to get email addresses and names for spamming,'" the statement read. "We shut down access to the site and database at 2pm and immediately informed the Data Protection Commissioner and the Gardai [Irish police]. "We take this incident and any attempted breach of our database extremely seriously and this is being investigated internally by our own people." Despite assuring job seekers that no other data such as usernames or passwords were stolen the recruiter advised its members to change their login crede...