According to the Wall Street Journal, Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using a satellite-snooping software called “Sky Grabber”  (cost = $26) to monitor live Predator video feeds. The Predator transmits video over an unencrypted link, so there’s no major hacking going on here, but it’s obviously a huge issue – and we’d say the bigger [...]

An Israeli hacker, nicknamed “Labba”, has cracked Kindle’s ebook DRM, essentially allowing folks to extract the text of Amazon’s AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any reader. The hackers have reverse engineered the ebook code and very close to a formal, software-based solution. It took the hacker only nine days to strip the [...]