US Census Bureau Helps Hackers By Posting 63,000 Social Security Numbers Online
Posted on 22. Apr, 2007 by Salman in news, security news
For more than a decade, the Census Bureau posted on a public Web site the Social Security numbers of 63,000 people who received financial aid, officials said yesterday. The apparent violation of federal privacy law prompted concerns about identity theft. Government officials removed the data from the Web site on April 13, the day they [...]
First pirated HD DVD movie hits BitTorrent
Posted on 16. Jan, 2007 by Salman in news, security news, torrent news
Pirates around the world have fired another shot with the first release of the first full-resolution rip of an HD DVD movie on BitTorrent. The movie, Serenity, was made available as a .EVO file and is playable on most DVD playback software packages such as PowerDVD. The file was encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1 and the [...]