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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

4Chan "Hacked" Most Popular Image-Bulletin Board Compromised

The Founder of 4Chan,Christopher Poole aka "moot" has confirmed few hour ago,in a blogspot that the popular image-based bulletin board was hacked. The attacker gained access to the administrative function and successfully hacked into 4chan database by exploting a website vulnerability last week.The motive behind the hack was to expose the posting habits of fpecific user the attacker didnt like,moot wrote It is belived that the software vulnerability...

A permanent hacker space in the Brazilian Congress

On December 17, the presidency of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution that creates a permanent Laboratório Ráquer or “Hacker Lab” inside the Chamber—a global first. The resolution mandates the creation of a physical space at the Chamber that is “open for access and use by any citizen, especially programmers and software developers, members of parliament and other public workers, where they can utilize public data...