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Burger King’s Twitter Account Hacked (And Switched To McDonald’s)

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Author: Charity Woods

“Just got sold to McDonalds because the whopper flopped =[” Someone's having a bad day over at BK HQ.

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Jawbone says ‘limited’ number of MyTALK accounts hacked

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Author: Jack Schmidt

If you have a Jawbone headset and MyTALK account, you may have received an email from the outfit warning that you’ll need to reset your password due to a security compromise in a “limited” number of accounts. The company said it halted the hack after “several hours,” however, and that thieves only stole names, email addresses and encrypted passwords — but no other user information, so far as it can tell. If affected, you’ll need to reset your password by following the instructions (in the PR after the break), and Jawbone also advised you to change it on other sites too, if used elsewhere — never a good practice, incidentally.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]

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Montana TV Station’s Emergency Alert System Hacked, Broadcasts Zombies Warning

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KRTV in Montana announced that someone had hacked the Emergency Alert System and was broadcasting messages of zombies rising from the dead on their network and the CW.

The video below was posted on YouTube within the hour and matches the description of the text described in the emergency alert.

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The Engadget Show 35: EVs in Portland, hacked bicycles and a Tesla Model S test drive

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Author: Jon Daniels

With a transportation themed episode, it just appeared natural to take the Engadget Program out of our traditional digs– it was additionally a fantastic reason to check out one of our favored cities in the globe: Portland, Oregon. We drove Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV EV around the Northwestern green mecca, stopping at some wonderful PDX spots along the method, including the fantastic Ground Kontrol arcade, Hand-Eye Supply and the hackerspace, Mind Silo. We additionally made the effort to talk to some PDX homeowners, consisting of Core77 co-founder Eric Ludlum and some local modders flaunting their homebrew projects.

Also, Brian takes a trip out to Boston to ride along with a gang of bike hackers, Myriam takes the Tesla Style S for a spin around the streets of San Francisco and Michael does his best not to fall off the DTV Shredder in the California desert. And, as constantly, we got a stack of the month’s latest and best gizmos, including the Google Nexus 7, Hasbro’s new Lazer Tag firearms and a fast trip around OS X Mountain Lion. Additionally: comics, donuts and lots of EV road trip shenanigans. Click through the break to tune in!

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‘How I hacked Hollywood,’ a cautionary tale

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Author: Rahul Gabe

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Four years ago, Chris Chaney was jobless, depressed, and browsing the web when he fell upon a compromising photo of Miley Cyrus, which would dramatically alter the course of his life. The photo raised questions for Chaney; who stole this picture, how did he do it, and how hard could it be for him to do the same?

Fast forward three years. Chaney is laying in bed, his body speckled with red lasers from the guns of the federal agents that surrounded him. Now a prolific Hollywood hacker, his antics had got him noticed by the wrong crowd. So how exactly did a man that didn’t know an ounce of code, and had only owned a computer for a few years, gain access to celebrities’ private emails and photographs? With a lot of time, and very little…

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Used Xboxes can be hacked for credit card information, researcher says

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Author: Brian McKinnell

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Restoring an Xbox 360 console to factory settings before selling it apparently isn’t enough to remove your personal information. In an interview with Kotaku, Drexel University researcher Ashley Podhradsky said that her team had successfully retrieved credit card data from a refurbished Xbox using simple modding tools. The software gave them access to the console’s files and folders, letting them extract information that hadn’t been wiped even by the Microsoft-authorized reseller. The process was published in the August 2011 Proceedings of the America’s Conference on Information Systems.

Podhradsky says that Microsoft “does a great job of protecting their proprietary information. But they don’t do a great job of protecting the user’s…

93-year-old lens hacked onto a Canon 5D Mark II with amazing results

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Author: Jenny Zhao

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Three things we generally enjoy here at The Verge: great photography, vintage gadgets, and hacking things together. Which is why we’re kind of in love with what director Jason Bognacki has created. Curious as to whether a 1919 Contessa-Nettel Piccolette folding camera he had lying around would still produce images, Bognacki set out to find a way to test nearly century-old device. While you can still get type 127 film — the Piccolette’s required stock — we’re unsure whether his particular camera was still functional enough to advance a few frames. But that doesn’t really matter, because Bognacki decided to add a modern touch by finding a way to attach the retro camera to the mount of his Canon 5D Mark II. The lens-camera-camera combo…

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NASA: We’ve Been Hacked Thousands Of Times Because Of Inadequate IT Infrastructure

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Author: Jade Kim

Paul Martin, NASA’s Inspector General, gave written testimony in a House committee earlier this week detailing the security threats faced by their IT infrastructure. The thrust of the document is that NASA needs to double down on cybersecurity but, naturally, needs more money to do so.

Their IT budget is $ 1.5 billion, but of that only $ 58 million was spent on security. Considering the enormous network of datacenters, laptops, operations centers, and research labs scattered around the world, this may not be nearly enough. As it is, in the last two years NASA has been hacked thousands of times. In one instance, the hackers gained full access to some NASA systems and credentials for 150 employees.

NASA counted 5,408 security breaches where some access was given or malicious software was installed. In 2011 alone they had 47 attacks they described as “advanced persistent threats,” serious attacks by well-funded “individuals or nations.” Of those, 13 succeeded, and one attack based in China gained complete access to Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) systems — read, write, delete, add and delete users, modify logs, everything.

Furthermore, they have lost dozens of laptops. And while government-wide, more than half of laptops are encrypted, NASA has yet to implement encryption as standard practice. The result: only one in a hundred NASA laptops is encrypted.

People in security are likely shaking their heads. Encryption of employee laptops and total isolation of root access is something even a small business should be trying to do, to say nothing of a major government entity with enormous amounts of sensitive data.

And that’s the point of this report: Martin is saying that NASA is the target of very serious hackers, and their approach to security is wildly out of date. They also are working hard to bridge the gap between security and control and the benefits of cloud computing.

Martin describes the need essentially for modern security: thin clients and cloud computing, a top-down administration of security, 21st-century standards like encryption and password regulations, and a general move to a “continuous monitoring approach,” the way modern IT should be. They’ve addressed dozens of security issues and implemented many real improvements to their systems, but it’s a good example of a organization totally reliant on technology, yet unable to move as quickly as the threats they face. For tech and research entities, agility is becoming more important yearly, and NASA hopes to convince the House of that.

Here’s the testimony in full:

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Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text

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Author: Jesus Sargent

Frequenters of India’s online Microsoft Store were briefly greeted with the suspicious visage of a Guy Fawkes mask this morning, following a hack that compromised the site’s user database. According to WPSauce, Microsoft Store India’s landing page was briefly taken over by a hacker group called Evil Shadow Team, who, in addition to putting a new face on Windows products, revealed that user passwords were saved in plain text. The group’s motivations are unknown, though the hacked page warned that an “unsafe system will be baptized.” The store is now offline, suggesting that Microsoft may have regained control. Read on for a look at the compromised password database.

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Video: Android 4.0 Hacked Onto The Kindle Fire

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Author: Melissa Shroeder

You wanted an Android tablet for Christmas… and you got one! Alas, it’s a Kindle Fire. Whoops! While the Fire is technically well within the realm of “Android tablet” (and a mighty fine tablet, for the price), it’s not quite the tried-and-true vanilla Android experience you were looking for.

Wait! Don’t go requesting that return label just yet: if a gang of goodhearted hackers have their way, Amazon’s wonderfully wallet-friendly tablet will be running the latest builds of straight-up Android (as in Ice Cream Sandwich) before too long. In fact, they’ve (sort of) already got it working.

Check out the video below, as shot by the fine folks at Lilliputing:

The guys behind this hack (the XDA dev thread can be found here) call it “pre-alpha”, and for good reason. While it technically works, it’s probably not something you want to dabble with just yet. It’s got all sorts of nasty bugs, with the biggest drawbacks being that audio/video playback are pretty much 100% broken.

With that said, few communities can hobble together rock-solid hacks as fast as the Android crowd can. Now that the concept is proven, expect this one to come together quick.

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