He and a friend were penning a hack biography of kung fu star Bruce Lee.
Not every idea generated from a hack day will dramatically alter the course of history.
The US's central bank has confirmed information was stolen from its servers during a hack attack.
The game is a hack-and-slash action-RPG with a full range of customizations available to players.
Up to 22 million login names may have been stolen during a hack attack on Yahoo Japan.
Twitter is responding to a hack today that allowed users to force other users to follow them.
Whether the Easter Egg is a hack, a marketing stunt, or a prank by internal developers remains unclear.
Josh Clark: I frequently say that buttons are a hack, and people sometimes take that the wrong way.
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Virgin Media has said it was forced to take its website offline for an hour during a hack attack.
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As their marriage deteriorated, Scott went to Hollywood to become a hack screenplay writer, and Zelda checked into a sanitarium.
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In a statement explaining what happened, MTGox said the delays in trading had not been caused by a hack attack.
The AP confirmed that its Twitter account had been suspended following a hack and said it was working to correct the issue.
In its reporting on the situation, The Daily Caller said a UN spokesperson initially told its reporter that the tweet was a result of a hack.
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Gil is a commercially successful Hollywood screenwriter who considers himself a hack and is struggling to write a novel, a dubious-sounding story about a man who lives in the past.
More than 10 million people thought to have accounts with Electronic Arts's (EA) Origin game store are at risk from a hack attack that swaps games for malicious code, researchers say.
When faced with a hack attack, no corporate general counsel would ever authorize his company to employ cyber ninjas to hack back at the hackers out of concern for legal liabilities.
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This comes on top of the 77 million people who have already been affected by a hack into the PlayStation Network (PSN), which saw hackers gain access to personal and financial information.
"This was not a hack on the Twitter service, it was a personal attack followed by the theft of private company documents, " Twitter co-founder Biz Stone writes on the company's official blog.
The FBI was able to identify more than 150 security vulnerabilities at the time, allowing companies to prevent a hack before it occurred or mitigate harm from prior hacking activity, he said.
It's a novel way for a hack to get a quote, but it sure beats coming back to your car and finding the piece of paper under your wiper is a parking ticket.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is not a hack of Monster's security, rather, legitimate customer credentials are being used to log in to the database, " said Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention at Monster.
Alongside a huge number of speakers and sessions talking about innovation and development in the mobile world, the event also runs a Hack Day stream, where people rapidly prototype new ideas and present them to the conference as the last session.
Although cloud storage is a mainstay of modern teamwork, there's any number of problems that come along with trusting it explicitly: the limited space for the money, the heavy dependence on a constant connection and the risk that a hack could expose sensitive projects.
"Although it seems that Twitter has been thrust into this situation a bit unfairly, a hack along these lines could have happened to the executives of more Web companies than anybody would like to admit, " Josh Lowensohn and Caroline McCarthy write on the news site.
Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 48KHz.
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Finding the actor and the motive behind a malicious hack is often a near-impossible feat of forensics.
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Next to all this, Mr Hollande, a Socialist hack who led a fractious party for 11 years and has never had a ministerial job, is a debutant: his biggest crisis was a 2005 party split over the draft European Union constitution.
Members of the collective would often post a short Twitter message after a successful hack attack, providing a link to a Pastebin post which in turn contained details of the data they had copied from the target's computer servers.
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