MacRumors Hit by Hackers

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Those fun-loving pranksters over at 4Chan have been busy today. In addition to (allegedly) getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to rise to the top of Google Trends, they managed to take over the live feed for the MacRumors live-blog coverage of today's Macworld keynote address.
After announcing that Steve Jobs had died, they moved on with lightning speed to an endless string of penis jokes (which may have undermined their credibility somewhat).

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The Best Links:

  1. When Livestreams Go Wrong: MacRumors Gets Hijacked
  2. Today, We Are All MacRumors
  3. MacRumors’ Unprotected Admin Interface
  4. Hackers Hit MacRumors Keynote Coverage
  5. More From the Hacked Feed

Java PS3 Media Server v1.02.1 out!

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

News from StreetskaterFU (http://streetskaterfu.blogspot.com/2009/01/java-ps3-media-server-v1021-out.html)

Java PS3 Media Server v1.02.1 is out, here a short quote from the author:

I would also thank the people who are helping on the project code and the google groups, as they contribute to make…

✈ ▌▌ Search Hoax

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

CULTURE BUZZ:
Commenters on 4Chan, eBaum's world and other sites rile up the internet by getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to the top of the Google Trends page.
So okay, this only affects the infinitesimally small number of people that know/care what Google Trends is — but you may be one of them! But you probably also won't be offended.

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  1. 4Chan: Go To Google, Search For ✈ ▌▌, Bring It To The Top Of The List
  2. Google Trends: ✈ ▌▌
  3. The Sick Internet Joke About 9/11
  4. Unpleasant Google Trends Subversion