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CNBC
April 28, 2018
This teen hacker was busted by the FBI. Now he's taking on cyber criminals. 5 Hours Ago. This former hacker, known as Cosmo the God, is now helping companies defend themselves against cybercrime. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
CNBC
April 28, 2018
Russian hackers are notorious for their hacking skills, but one American says he hacked a Russian cyber gang at just 15 years old. Eric Taylor, who went by the nickname Cosmo the God, also posted personal information of celebrities and government officials, including Michelle Obama, former CIA directorÃâà...
Afro American
April 28, 2018
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. editor, mgreen@afro.com. Time traveling hacks may have made perfect sense for retroactive mayhem in the movie “Back to the Future,” yet few people believed MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid's statement that an “external party accessed and manipulated material” from herÃâà...
Nasdaq
April 27, 2018
Nasdaq's Vice President of Communications, Allan Schoenberg talked with Shane Green during a Facebook Live event held at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square . Green was at Nasdaq to discuss his latest book, " Culture Hacker: Reprogramming Your Employee Experience to Improve CustomerÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 27, 2018
A Kansas-based virtual reality company is suing a hacker after trying to hire the anonymous user to identify and fix security issues in its gaming software. April 27, 2018, at ... Orbus owner Riley Dutton contacted the hacker, offering to pay him to help protect the company's software, the lawsuit said. But theÃâà...
Kansas City Star
April 27, 2018
OrbusVR's hacker declined the offer to come in from the cold. Instead, the war turned hot. The lawsuit said dajuda tried to “extort unfettered access” to Orbus Online's game in exchange for a promise not to reveal the path into the software he'd created. Orbus Online quickly fixed its protections to keepÃâà...
PigeonsAndPlanes
April 26, 2018
Manny is an ex-hacker, space enthusiast, and photographer, and he isn't holding himself to the sound of his debut. Speaking about what the rest of his music sounds like, he tells us, "It's all very different. I'm influenced by so many different sounds but I think the glue that keeps it all together is the writing.".
Albany Times Union
April 25, 2018
A man accused of hacking a computer system at a Plattsburgh area gaming arcade is among the suspects State Police said they are looking for as part of their Warrant Wednesday effort. Michael P. Dowling, 31, is wanted by State Police in Plattsburgh on grand larceny and forgery charges tied to a MarchÃâà...
PCMag
April 25, 2018
UK-based security researcher Kevin Beaumont noticed the attack and said the culprit was ran the fake MyEtherWallet site from a server in Russia. The hacker also appears to be quite wealthy, and controls a wallet that contains $17 million in Ether. To pull off the phishing scheme, the hacker exploited theÃâà...
Globalnews.ca
April 25, 2018
“One concern I have is that the sentence the government is requesting for Mr. Baratov relates to the fact that he's been caught up with a codefendant who apparently was the Yahoo mega hacker,” Chhabria was quoted as saying by The Daily Beast. “Mr. Baratov did not have any involvement in theÃâà...
TNW
April 25, 2018
While it's not worth rehashing the details, I believe most of us would agree that smartphones are both good and bad. On the one hand, we have a device that holds the vast majority of human knowledge. It's an invention responsible for a shift in power that democratizes information and empowers those mostÃâà...
Fudzilla
April 25, 2018
Grayshift makes GrayKey iPhone unlocking boxes to multiple law enforcement agencies across the United States and makes a mockery of Apple's security invincibility claims. However, it turns out the company suffered a data breach that allowed hackers to access a small portion of the GrayKey code.
Law360
April 25, 2018
Law360, San Francisco (April 24, 2018, 8:37 PM EDT) -- A California federal judge on Tuesday held off on sentencing a Canadian "hacker-for-hire" to nearly eight years in prison for breaking into thousands of email accounts, some at the bidding of Russian agents tied to a Yahoo cyberattack, saying it's severe and heÃâà...
PSFK
April 25, 2018
Graphic designer Paw Poulsen created a new font, called Bill, inspired by Bill Gates's hacker past. The no-frills typeface does away with serifs or accents that might over-embellish the intention of its purpose—for it's not the font's look as much as its function that makes it special. When typing with Bill,Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 24, 2018
U.S. authorities have demanded a nearly eight-year prison sentence for a Kazakh-born computer hacker, asserting that a harsh term would send a message to Russia's main intelligence agency about hacking and espionage. Federal prosecutors made the arguments in court filings in San Francisco aheadÃâà...
CIO Dive
April 18, 2018
Experts are quick to bemoan the glaring lack of diversity in cybersecurity, but proffered solutions have failed to close the gap. That's because the cybersecurity "industry is not ready to take diversity seriously," said Kim Jones, director of the Cybersecurity Education Consortium at Arizona State University,Ãâà...
Memphis Daily News
April 18, 2018
Frustrated by a third year of TNReady foul-ups, this time with testing statewide disrupted by a suspected hacker, state lawmakers are set to step in and put an end to what they feel is a fiasco. Two measures were to be considered by the House Tuesday afternoon, April 17, to put an end to mistakes in theÃâà...
WIRED
April 18, 2018
When an MIT graduate student named Bunnie Huang located that key in 2002, he gave his hacker compatriots the power to trick the Xbox into booting up homebrew programs that could stream music, run Linux, or emulate Segas and Nintendos. All they had to do first was tweak their consoles' firmware,Ãâà...
ACS
April 17, 2018
Organisations across the globe are battling to stay on top of sophisticating cybercrime, a new report has found, with the majority of respondents unable to detect a breach within an hour. Security intelligence company LogRhythm released its annual benchmark survey in which 751 IT decision makers fromÃâà...
CBS News
April 17, 2018
Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal is fueling the debate over how to protect digital information. One hacker from Texas is also raising awareness about growing cyber threats. And he's only 12 years old. Reuben Paul is a sixth grader from Austin. The self-proclaimed "Cyber Ninja" has aÃâà...
Infosecurity Magazine
April 16, 2018
Malware, along with targeted attacks that can move laterally and evade traditional detection methods, are a huge and growing concern. Popular hacker tools like Mimikatz are being combined with stolen NSA tools to create powerful new attacks. Because the stealthy abuse of authentication protocols likeÃâà...
WIRED
April 10, 2018
But the rise of cheap and accessible software-defined radios that allow any hacker to pick up and or produce radio signals in a broad spectrum of frequencies has made it far easier to eavesdrop and mimic unencrypted communications than in the past. "This looks like it was security through obscurity, and inÃâà...
Times of India
March 26, 2018
NEW DELHI: The Indian National Congress' (INC) official mobile app 'With INC' seems to have disappeared from the Google Play Store, after anonymous hacker who goes by the moniker Elliot Alderson on Monday alleged that the app was sending users' personal data to Singapore. On the app beingÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 26, 2018
During the U.S. election, Guccifer 2.0 presented itself online as an independent Romanian hacker. The name was supposedly an homage to Guccifer, an actual Romanian hacker who targeted U.S. politicians and uncovered Hillary Clinton's private email server. Guccifer 2.0 obtained email archives from theÃâà...
India Today
March 26, 2018
'Tis the season for data leaks and data leak allegations and now, the Indian National Congress is at the centre of a controversy about how it handles data of those who connect to the party's online/social media tools. Elliot Alderson, who calls himself a French security researcher and who alleged misuse ofÃâà...
WIRED
March 25, 2018
On Thursday, a report from the Daily Beast alleged that the Guccifer 2.0 hacking persona—famous for leaking data stolen from the Democratic National Committee in 2016—has been linked to a GRU Russian intelligence agent. What appears to have given Guccifer away: The hacker once failed activate aÃâà...
VRFocus
March 24, 2018
The interactive VR experience provides fans with one-on-one encounters with the characters from the show including Richard (Thomas Middleditch), Dinesh (Kumail Nanjiani), Gilfoyle (Martin Starr), Big Head (Josh Brener) and Jian-Yang (Jimmy O. Yang). Viewers who attend the Hacker Hostel can seeÃâà...
Newshub
March 24, 2018
The hacker who broke into the Democratic Party's computer systems two years ago has reportedly been outed as a Russian intelligence agent. The Daily Beast reports the agent's identity was revealed when he briefly forgot to turn on his VPN (virtual private network), leaving behind a trace of his locationÃâà...
Mashable
March 24, 2018
Ethical Hacker Bootcamp for 2017 ($195 value): Before going full-on Zero Cool, you must first learn what it takes to become a professional pentester. In this course, you'll learn how to think like a hacker and explore social engineering basics. A to Z Ethical Hacking Course ($200 value): Across 92 lecturesÃâà...
The Register
March 24, 2018
Guccifer 2.0, the hacker busy stealing and leaking emails from US Democratic Party servers amid the 2016 presidential elections, turned out, surprise, surprise, to be a Russian intelligence officer, according to a well-source report. Said шпион forgot to turn on their VPN to disguise their public IP addressÃâà...
Fossbytes
March 23, 2018
First, he ran a query on the hacker search engine Shodan that returned around 2300 servers running etcd database. Then, he ran a simple script that gave him the login credentials stored on these servers which can be used to gain access to CMSs, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases, etc. etcd is aÃâà...
Inman.com
March 23, 2018
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Sharonherald
March 23, 2018
The hacker visited a U.S.-based social media site after the slip-up, leaving his IP address in the site's server logs. U.S. investigators were then able to identify Guccifer 2.0 as a specific GRU officer who works at the agency's headquarters in Moscow – although The Daily Beast said its sources didn't discloseÃâà...
ZDNet
March 23, 2018
Video: Cryptocurrency mining raises GPU prices, causes shortage. More security news. Netflix asks you to start hacking, bug bounty program is now public Ãâ÷ Dropbox updates its vulnerability disclosure policy to protect researchers Ãâ÷ Mark Zuckerberg outlines Facebook's response to Cambridge AnalyticaÃâà...
The Independent
March 23, 2018
A teenage British hacker has exposed a vulnerability in one of the world's best-selling cryptocurrency wallets. Saleem Rashid, 15, broke into Nano S and Nano Blue devices from French hardware company Ledger after discovering a flaw that enabled him to access the products' keys and thereby gainÃâà...
The Hill
March 23, 2018
U.S. investigators have reportedly discovered that "Guccifer 2.0," the hacker who claimed credit for a breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election, revealed himself as a Russian intelligence operative. The Daily Beast reports that U.S. investigators identified the hacker as aÃâà...
TechNewsWorld
March 22, 2018
A hardware wallet for virtual currencies with millions of users has been compromised by a 15-year-old security researcher. Saleem Rashid explained how he cracked the firmware on the wallet produced by Ledger in an online post Tuesday. Rashid performed what's known as a "supply chain" attack.
InfoQ.com
March 22, 2018
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BleepingComputer
March 21, 2018
Australian authorities have tracked down, arrested, charged, and sentenced a man who hacked a police radio system and interrupted a police chase at the end of August 2017. The man, identified as 42-year-old Vaughan William George, received a 21-month prison sentence, yesterday, at a Magistrates'Ãâà...
Insurance Business
March 21, 2018
During that period, the hacker accessed customer data from between January 2016 and December 2017. The data includes names, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, gender, and payment care information. The attacker may have also accessed personal customer data on the company's consumerÃâà...
FRONTLINE
March 19, 2018
Adrian Lamo, center, walks out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland in 2011 after testifying at a military hearing in the Chelsea Manning case. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky). Adrian Lamo, the hacker who reported Chelsea Manning to the FBI after Manning divulged to him that she had leaked classifiedÃâà...
Krebs on Security
March 19, 2018
Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times's network and for reporting Chelsea Manning's theft of classified documents to the FBI, was found dead in a Kansas apartment on Wednesday. Lamo was widely reviled and criticized for turning in Manning, but that chapterÃâà...
GQ Magazine
March 19, 2018
Over the weekend, a man named Christopher Wylie came forward to explain his involvement in the election-year harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles for political advertising. In interviews with the New York Times and London's Observer, Wylie explained that he'd worked with a firm calledÃâà...
newsBTC
March 11, 2018
In a blog post, Binance described how it played-out as follows: “As withdrawals were already automatically disabled by our risk management system, none of the withdrawals successfully went out. Additionally, the VIA coins deposited by the hackers were also frozen. Not only did the hacker not steal anyÃâà...
Wigan Today
March 9, 2018
Children's television star Hacker T Dog was unable to resist the chance to shout about his love of pastry encasing meat, potatoes and gravy. ... The short film is also filled with references to Wigan, with Hacker also singing enthusiastically of his love of the place as he returns home on board a train andÃâà...
BleepingComputer
March 8, 2018
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TradeWinds
March 8, 2018
His single page ruling barring the unknown hacker from publishing any information secured from the November incident was handed down in a default judgment this week. Justice Warby said the identity of the person threatening Clarksons from a single email address remained unknown. Clarksons filedÃâà...
TechTarget
March 8, 2018
Since 2016 -- when cyberattacks against hospitals started to increase alarmingly -- health IT professionals have worked hard to counteract hacker breaches, malware attacks, employee errors and other intrusions into electronic patient data systems. IT folks have updated or implemented new security measures, appliedÃâà...
Law.com
March 8, 2018
There probably aren't many attorneys who started down the road to law by attending hacker meetups— but Alexander Urbelis of New York's ... career path from getting involved with 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, to becoming a lawyer for the U.S. Army JAG Corps and the CIA, and later joining Big Law.
WIRED
March 7, 2018
Leaked to the public not quite a year ago, EternalBlue has joined a long line of reliable hacker favorites. The Conficker Windows worm infected millions of computers in 2008, and the Welchia remote code execution worm wreaked havoc 2003. EternalBlue is certainly continuing that tradition—and by allÃâà...
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