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Hackers hit the Web site of a French magazine in an effort to influence an opinion poll about the Beijing Olympics and change the site's content.The Web site of business magazine Capital was first attacked in March, when it featured a poll asking if France should boycott the opening ceremony of the Games in China, according to publisher Jean-Joel Gurviez.

Cross site scripting exploited within the website for Illinois Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama caused visitors to the blog section to be redirected to rival Hillary Clinton's site.

Hackers turn the tables on the talk show host “Top Gear” who made an outrageous claim that no one could do anything evil if their banking information was stolen. The humor part comes in that when he checked his bank account, someone had done a 500 pound (1000 dollar) donation to diabetes UK.

Looks like "The Search" has turned up a bizarre technical problem, as the home page for BattelleMedia.com now pulls up a page titled RocknGo instead.

I just got an email from admin [at] spreadfirefox.com saying the spreadfirefox web site had been hacked on June 12. Here's the email...

Users of the University of Southern California's online application system over the past 8 years will be notified of the problem.

Saturday, MasterCard blamed a vendor of ALL credit card providers called CardSystems Solutions, Inc., a third-party processor of payment card data, as the source of loss of 40 million consumers credit card information.

The Korean portal reportedly fell victim to hackers for one reason: its servers had not been patched.