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Celebrity Hacking 101 -- and How to Prevent It
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe FBI reportedly is hunting for a hacking ring suspected of targeting female celebrities and stealing photos and videos from their computers and smartphones. Some 50 celebrities are said to have been victimized. Gossip website TMZ has listed Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera and Renee Olstead as among the targets of the alleged hackers. Contacted by AOL News, the FBI said it could neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation into the hacking ring. According to TMZ, law enforcement sources have said they believe a ...
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Spam Traffic Plunges Worldwide
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsBad news for all those dying to hear about acai berries and cheap Viagra: The volume of e-mail spam sent worldwide has dropped sharply. It isn't clear what accounts for the drop in junk traffic. Still, there's no denying the trend: A mere 50 billion spam messages are being sent each day, compared with 200 billion a day in the summer, BBC News reported, citing computer security company Symantec. The drop-off has been especially noticeable in the past couple of weeks. AFP / Getty Images The amount of junk e-mail being sent has fallen dramatically since December, but ...
Mac App Store: 3 Problems With Apple's Latest Juggernaut
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsA few angry birds are chirping at Apple. The technology giant cut the ribbon on its heavily anticipated Mac App Store on Thursday and by today announced that it had already reached more than 1 million downloads to customers worldwide. But, thanks to computer hackers and software problems, not all is well in Apple World. Surge Desk runs down three issues encountered since the Mac App Store's grand opening. 1. Error 100 Just a "slight glitch," some excited App Store shoppers encountered the following message each time they attempted to purchase an app: "We could not complete your App Store ...
Feds Seek Computer Firewall to Block WikiLeaks 'Pollution'
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsAmong the more striking aspects of the still unfolding WikiLeaks controversy are government demands that their workers -- and even federal contractors -- refrain from reading leaked classified documents, even though they are in the public domain. Now, according to one network security company, the government wants to install a system that can block unclassified computers from accessing WikiLeaks documents no matter where they originate. Fidelis Security, a Boston-based network security company that works with the military and other government agencies, says it's being asked to set up a ...
British UFO Hacker Fights Extradition to US
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Dec. 3) -- When Gary McKinnon decided to try to find secret UFO files, he did what any curious computer expert would do: He hacked into nearly 100 military and NASA computers until he was finally caught. Eight years later, the Scottish systems administrator awaits his legal fate. As controversy swirls around WikiLeaks, the website that this week released secret diplomatic cables without authorization, one of the documents in question contains information about McKinnon, whose lengthy extradition case still has the U.K. buzzing, The Guardian newspaper reports. McKinnon, 44, who suffers from ...
Army Plans 'Virtual Afghanistan' to Help Treat PTSD
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
ORLANDO, Fla. (Dec. 2) -- An Army-funded institute that has used virtual reality to help treat traumatized veterans of the war in Iraq is now moving to build an even more detailed virtual world of Afghanistan. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, which conducted pioneering work using virtual reality to treat those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, recently received funding from the U.S. Army to build a new, advanced computer program based on Afghanistan, according to Dr. Albert "Skip" Rizzo, a research scientist at the ...
Hawaii U Posted Private Info of 40,000 Students Online
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 29) -- More than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students now know what plenty of others before them have regrettably experienced firsthand: Security online can be elusive. The students' Social Security numbers, grades and other private information were made public after a faculty member at the school accidentally posted the information online, according to The Associated Press. The sensitive information of anyone who attended the school's Manoa campus from 1990 to 1998 or in 2001 was available over the Internet, university spokesman Ryan Mielke told the AP. The security breach ...
Aussie Border Officials Check Honeymooners for Porn
By Matthew Hall - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- A travel tip for tourists to Australia: Delete any racy honeymoon photographs from your phone or computer. Under a new law, the Australian government is demanding visitors Down Under declare to border officials any "illegal" pornography they are bringing into the country. But the move has confused travelers to such an extent that airport arrival cards have had to be reworded. Afraid of breaking the law, an Australian couple returning home from an overseas honeymoon felt obliged to show customs officials naked photos of themselves. "[The couple were] on the beach, they were ...
New Supercomputer to Boost Weather Forecasting
By Paul Yeager - AOL News
(Oct. 24) -- Jokes about inaccurate weather forecasts are as popular as jokes about doughnut shops and the police, but advances in satellite data and computers have dramatically improved climate science in the past 50 years. And there will soon be a brand new supercomputer available to government scientists aimed at improving forecasts, whether just a few hours out or decades into the future. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's recent ribbon-cutting ceremony in Fairmont, W.Va., marked the future home of the NOAA Environmental Security Computing Center (NESCC), a $27.6 ...
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