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The European Union Council of Ministers approved a plan in November of 2008 that would give U.K. police the power to perform searches on criminal’s computers. A Cambridge University computer security expert said the most likely method that police would hack criminal’s computers would be to enter the criminal’s home and install key loggers on their computers. He also mentioned that they could break into WiFi networks, crack WEP and WPA protected routers while sitting outside the home.

This level of intrustion is more intrusive than any other method of tapping.

Twitter has suffered from a serious phishing attack that could have even fooled Twitter admins. A blog posting on the Twitter blog says that someone gained access to the Twitter administration interface gave hackers access to everything. Some high profile accounts such as Barack Obama and Britney Spears had some interesting messages left on their profiles. Britney Spears’ signature even said “HI ya’ll! Brit Brit here, just wanted to update you all on the size of my va****. It’s about 4 feet wide with razor sharp teeth.”
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The AT&T locked iPhone 3G has been hacked and a beta release of the hack is floating around the Internet named as yell0wsnow. The dev team has said that this is only a beta release and to not be surprised when their iPhone mysteriously stops working.

If you try the hack, please post a comment here and let use know how it goes.

A hash algorithm, MD5, used for creating SSL certificates for secure websites has been cracked. 200 Playstation 3 consoles were linked together and used as a distributed cracking super computer and it’s estimated that over 14% of the secure websites on the Internet are no longer safe because of this hack. VeriSign, one of the largest secure website certificate providers, rushes to replace all their certificates.
SSL is the security used to protect your information on secure sites such as shopping cart systems and online banking. 200 Playstations is a small price to pay for the ability to hack into these secure websites.

This problem not only effects website certificates, but also anything that uses MD5 such as secure shell, secure FTP and secure email. The MD5 hash algorithm was once thought to have vulnerabilities and now theory has been made into fact.

Early Sunday, a video posted on the “Miley and Mandy Show” YouTube page falsely claimed she’d been killed by a drunken driver. Miley’s BFF Mandy Jiroux featured a two minute long video. Jiroux’s supposed message reads: “Hey guys, this is Mandy and I have some very sad news :( …We’re very hurt to tell everyone this, but Miley died this morning after being hit by a drunk driver. Miley told us if anything ever happened to her, then we should let her fans know before the public…R.I.P. honey, we will miss you so much.”

Jiroux tells E! News that the video is the work of “a hacker”.

Miley mus have some serious issues making good passwords.

The University of Florida’s dental computers got hacked and over 300,000 records were stolen. The IT staff at the UOF found unauthorized software installed on the dental clinics server.

Altogether, the hacked information included patient names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and, in some cases, dental procedure information dating back as far as 1990.

The FBI is helping out the University in it’s investigation. The FBI? It seems that the FBI is mostly working on hacking cases these days. The budget for the FBI’s cyber team must be huge.