http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:30:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/zappos-site-hacked-headlines.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:50:45 +0000 Amazon owned online shoe retailed gets attacked by cyber pirates, users were advised to change that password if it had been used on other sites.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/anonymous-app-raise-awareness-by-hijacking-twitter-trends.html Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:05:02 +0000 World-renowned hacker group Anonymous have created an app which can manipulate trending topics on Twitter to draw attention to causes they deem important.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/the-v-for-vendetta-mask-now-an-international-symbol-of-rebellion.html Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:28:04 +0000 Not only does wearing a Guy Fawkes mask at demonstrations give protesters anonymity, it's creates an instant community with other protesters and marks its wearer as a rebel.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/breaking-the-myth-of-hacking.html Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:31:08 +0000 Computer hackers are frequently denigrated as mere digital pranksters. But some are now finding they have the power to change the world for good.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/authentification-system-protects-your-email-from-summer-hackers.html Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:00:59 +0000 You may be on vacation, but hackers are not. Summer is the peak season for having your email account hacked, so Google, Hotmail and Facebook have implemented a system called 'two-factor authentication' to protect your login information.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/could-an-algorithm-give-spammers-more-power-on-google.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:50:11 +0000 Could a flaw in Google+'s circle system make it a playground for spammers?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/phone-hacking-timeline-the-infographic.html Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:49:26 +0000 Do you want to know when Clive Goodman was first arrested or when the News of the World closed? Download this detailed visual.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/lulzsec-we-wont-publish-news-international-emails.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:29:57 +0000 Hacking group claims to have 4GB of emails taken from an alleged hack on servers at the Sun, but won't make them public for fear of jeopardising ongoing legal actions.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/lady-gagas-website-hacked-by-swagsec-cyber-attackers-headlines.html Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:49:34 +0000 Thousands of fans' personal information stolen as group of hackers breach singer's website.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/who-was-lulzsec.html Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:29:09 +0000 LulzSec, known to be the rockstar of hackers, has disbanded at the height of its popularity. The founder discusses why they suddenly called it quits.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/eric-schmidt-actually-google-seeks-deeper-integration-with-twitter-facebook.html Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:43:14 +0000 Tech company's executive chairman signals desire to work more closely with rivals as company rolls out Google+ service]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/what-is-swagsec.html Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:18:56 +0000 Anonymous and LulzSec style hacking collaborative claims it has raided websites and collected fan data of Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber andf the Klaxons.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/inside-lulzsec-the-secret-chats-of-a-hacker-group-leaked.html Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:20:05 +0000 Leaked IRC logs identify hacker group members and suggest the group is "disorganized and obsessed with its media coverage."]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/am-i-an-internet-obsessive.html Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:56:18 +0000 These days it's virtually possible to live entirely online if you want to. But the real world tends to intrude eventually.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/hackers-turn-on-each-other-the-jester-oneiroi-attack-lulzsec.html Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:55:45 +0000 The Jester outs LulzSec's leader, Oneiroi takes site down as hackers turn against "rogue" organization.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/wordpress-org-plugins-hacked-dropbox-lets-its-passwords-down.html Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:15:51 +0000 Problems at Wordpress could mean malicious plugins - while Dropbox admits it failed to enforce passwords for logins for four hours on Tuesday.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/who-are-the-big-hacker-organizations.html Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:08:53 +0000 A quick run down on the hackers and online mischief makers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/haptic-hacking-means-theres-life-in-the-old-mouse-yet-video.html Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:42:20 +0000 Old hardware provides insight for new ways for us to get in touch with software.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/who-is-lulzsec.html Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:24:02 +0000 After high-profile attacks on, among others, Nintendo, Sony, Bethesda, Codemasters and Minecraft, Keith Stuart looks into the motivations behind hacking groups like the Anyonymous collective and finds there's both more and less to it than meets the eye.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/hackers-cyber-attack-imf-headlines.html Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:09:06 +0000 Experts suspect source of targeted attack to be nation state as reports suggest IMF systems have been under attack for months.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/hacking-collective-targets-fbi-affiliate-after-nintendo-sony-attacks-headlines.html Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:50:54 +0000 Passwords stolen from 180 members of non-profit organisation InfraGard, including military users and cybersecurity companies]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/james-bond-uses-cupcake-recipes-to-take-down-al-qaida-site-headlines.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:24:05 +0000 British spies sabotaged online jihadist magazine in English as part of cyber war against terrorists.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/hackers-attack-another-sony-network-headines.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:03:28 +0000 Sony has been hit by a second massive data breach, hackers claim, another potential embarrassment for a company that is struggling to restore its image following the loss of millions of credit card numbers through its PlayStation Network. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/sony-playstation-store-back-online.html Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:29:46 +0000 Promise of 'Welcome Back' gift as final part of PlayStation Network returns following disastrous hacker attack.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/china-denies-gmail-hacking-accusations.html Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:00:51 +0000 Foreign ministry says hacking attacks are an international issue and claims critics have ulterior motives in blaming Beijing.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/google-ssl-stops-nosy-bosses-trackers-isps.html Wed, 18 May 2011 12:53:07 +0000 The security enabled version of the search page may have benefits to people who fear their queries are being monitored.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/cyber-weaponry-virtual-battlefields-the-changing-face-of-global-warfare.html Tue, 17 May 2011 14:27:41 +0000 Stuxnet forced countries to assess their vulnerability to cyber-attacks and make cyberwarfare mainstream defense policy.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/hackers-and-spooks-want-our-heads-in-the-cloud.html Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:02:46 +0000 Our unthinking embrace of these giant data centers is throttling the giddy anti-authoritarian computing dream.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/frog-design-designing-for-a-user-hijacked-world.html Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:10:46 +0000 Users are in control, again. The hacker culture that dominated the Internet in the 90s (pre-AOL and Compuserve) is now returning. Top-down, corporate-owned platforms simply can't keep up with the pace of innovation set by scrappy, digitally-native startups. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/john-gerzema-random-hacks-of-kindness.html Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:35:05 +0000 Through a volunteer community who use open technologies, CrisisCommons' founders hope to create all sorts of relief projects that can be tested in one crisis, refined, and deployed again when the need arises.]]>