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“A computer sciences graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a highly respected private co-ed tech college in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, proudly published a paper detailing how to hack the secure software technology on Microsoft’s Xbox video game console. Andrew 'bunnie' Huang told a reporter in a telephone interview that he will not 'share the secret code at all, or the key--those are Microsoft copyrighted items,' and said that he had 'been in touch with Microsoft about my work, and we've been really clear about what they think is legal research activity.' The hack bunnie used to...

<p>Computer hackers gained access to the California state government's computer systems in April and sensitive financial and personal information about as many as 265,000 state workers, officials said Friday.</p> <p>The electronic assault on payroll and other records was discovered by the Sacramento Valley Hi Tech Task Force, which determined that none of the information has been used illegally so far.</p>

SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. has warned that its Internet Explorer software contains six flaws, some of which could give hackers access to - and even potentially change - personal information about computer users. The Redmond company, which called the severity of some of the flaws "critical," advised users of Explorer versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 to download a patch for the software from the Microsoft Web site at www.microsoft.com/security. The security bulletin issued late Wednesday marks the fourth time this year that Microsoft has issued a fix for Explorer. >{? Among other things, the flaws could allow hackers to...

<p>The FBI this weekend raided the homes of the two online vandals known as the Deceptive Duo and confiscated their computers, according to a friend of the teens.</p> <p>The Duo -- Robert Lyttle, known online as Pimpshiz, and The-Rev -- defaced numerous government and private industry Web sites over the past few weeks in a spree that they claimed was driven by patriotism.</p>

<p>Internet Explorer users who click their browser's back button open the Windows operating system to a malicious hack attack.</p> <p>When users hit the back button on Explorer's toolbar, the browser's security settings for the "Internet" zone can be bypassed, and the browser will automatically execute malicious code embedded into a site's URL.</p>