hacking software

• Lieberman Software Survey Finds Password Misuse Could Be the Root Cause of Hacking Spike.

48% of IT security professionals surveyed have worked in organizations that have been hacked LOS ANGELES -- Lieberman Software Corporation, the Pion...

• Business Wire
• October 17, 2011

• Snapt, Incorporated v. Ellipse Communications, Inc, (5th Cir. 2011)

... the proprietary Snapt computer software” by the process known as “hacking” and that Sna... of one without demonstrated expertise in hacking. The court denied the motion for leave, observing ...

• Federal Circuits

• Wikileaks Supporters Say They Attacked Websites

NEW YORK - The website for MasterCard suffered severe technical problems Wednesday, possibly the result of attacks by hackers supporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Credit cards were not affected. Supporters of the organization, which has released thousands of classified government documents in recent weeks, said they would attack companies and groups hostile to its founder. An Internet group operating under the label "Operation Payback" claimed responsibility for the MasterCard problems in a message on Twitter. The hacking group Anonymous is distributing software tools that allow anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to join in the attacks.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• December 09, 2010

• Growing Nation-Wide Movement Gathering Steam to Ban Electronic Voting Machines

The problem, according to a year-long study conducted by New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, is that over 120 security risks have come to light including a serious potential for hacking, in addition to a woeful lack of software that is designed to send out an 'alert' or 'red flag' eminent tampering threats, as well as reticence and downright negligence on the part of states' to audit their own voting equipment. The "best and simplest" solution to avoid security problems associated with tampering as well as program kinks and glitches, according to [Lowell Finley], "is to have voters vote on paper," he noted, adding, that "modern technology like scanners" has its place, in terms of verification, however, the best case scenario is one in which you can go back and conduct a ma...

• Westside Gazette
• August 11, 2009

• Don't Wait Until After the Election: Now Is the Time to Make a Stink...

The marketing director for the machine's maker Diebold Inc.'s Diebold Election Systems of Allen, Texas _ blasted the report, saying [Edward Felten] ignored newer software and security measures that prevent such hacking. Diebold is among the voting machines used by other counties in Florida. The AccuVote-TS is commonly used across the country, along with a newer model, the AccuVote-TSx. While Felten wasn't able to test the new machine, he said he thought much of what he found would still apply.

• The Broward Times
• October 19, 2009

• Extent of Online Hacker Tutorials Revealed

YORK, England, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- People can learn how to hack into someone's account in less than 15 minutes findings from a live investigation revealed. In a controlled 'classroom' experiment conducted by life assistance company CPPGroup Plc (CPP), a small group of volunteers with limited technological knowledge, who signed a disclaimer saying they would not use the information for illegal or malicious attacks, followed a online tutorial using a 'man in the middle' technique to hack into a computer network and obtain each other's login details.

...From this they were able to download hacking software which allowed them to access login detail...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 26, 2011

• Hacking HIPAA: Are HIPAA Security Requirements Enough?; Todd McNutt uses Neon Software's LANsurveyor to detect an intruder on his company's network.

TULSA, Okla. -- A report was filed with the Tulsa Police and the FBI Office to report that a hacker was thwarted on Wednesday, September 22 while atte...

• Business Wire
• September 24, 2004

• Apps Built for Touch Screens Used to Treat Autism

ONLINE Autism Speaks has apps and links at www.autismspeaks.org/ family-services/ resource-library/autism-apps. Gary James reviews apps for children with special needs at www.a4cwsn.com. Shannon Des Roches Rosa blogs about parenting, autism and iPad apps at www.squidalicious.com. Rob Gorski blogs about his sons, autism and Android at lostandtired.com. Hewlett-Packard describes its Hacking Autism project at hackingautism.org. You can find apps in the iTunes and Android markets by typing autism in the search field. Source: Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. - As a commercial software expert for the financial services industry, Ted Conley was frustrated with the technology that a speech therapist recommended to help his developmentally disabled son. So he decided to build his own application.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• July 25, 2011

• E-Voting May Get Overhaul

California's elections chief is proposing the toughest standards for voting systems in the country, so tough that they could banish ATMlike touch-screen voting machines from the state. For the first time, California is demanding the right to try hacking every voting machine with "red teams" of computer experts and to study the software inside the machines, line-by-line, for security holes.

• Whittier Daily News
• March 28, 2007

• Teleflora Announces That Federal District Court Prohibits FTD From Hacking Into Teleflora's Proprietary RTI Software.

LOS ANGELES -- Teleflora announced today that the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary injunctio...

• Business Wire
• August 19, 2004