Hackers

How Facebook Uses Hackers to Keep Your Timeline Safe

Last week Mark Zukerberg showed off the new Facebook Timeline during the company’s f8 keynote. Announced as a new way of presenting yourself on Facebook, the Timeline is an autobiography of your Facebook-shared life. But how Facebook is securing that life could surprise you. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-facebook-timeline-only-your-whole-life-5843030 While hacking is usually looked upon as a means to…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin Sep 27

Cops Arrest LulzSec and Anon Hackers—And One of Them’s Homeless (Updated: Names Named!)

The tables have turned a bit more! Police claim they’ve got two more members of the world’s foremost celebrity hacker groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, in custody. And one of them was living (and hacking!) homeless in San Francisco. The FBI hasn’t specified which arrest is against which group, but the non-homeless perp is accused of…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 22

Pranksters add Conan the Barbarian to the faculty of Irish college

Last Thursday, Trinity College recruited an unexpected new professor for their English department: a one Dr. Conan T. Barbarian. Sadly, this was the work of rascals at the university and not one of Thulsa Doom’s unusually stupid spells. Here’s his faculty listing (via the cached page, after the university removed it): Dr Conan T. Barbarian,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 17

Did Breaking News Just Get Hacked? (Updated)

@BreakingNews, the massively popular Twitter feed that is often the first to tip us off about earthquakes, explosions, and other matters of import, looks like it got its butt hacked screwed up. Minutes ago, the account beamed out a strange tweet: “@BreakingNews Compare all three versions of the Pentagon Papers and see what the US…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 16

If You Are Famous and Take Nude Photos of Yourself, They Will End Up on the Internet

Attention celebrities, I have some shocking news: People really want to see you naked. So if you take a photograph of yourself in the buff, someone’s gonna find it. So put down that cameraphone. Or don’t! By now, you’ve probably heard that possibly genuine nude photographs of someone who may or may not be Scarlett…

Privacy & Security Joe Brown Sep 14

This Cheap Air Drone Can Break Into Your Computer and Own It

This must be the holy grail of hacking: a cheap, do-it-yourself flying drone that can break into Wi-Fi networks and turn computers into zombies that can be controlled remotely. The coolest part for evildoers: it makes the hacking untraceable. The SkyNET drone is a modified $300 Parrot quadcopter with a Linux computer, 3G card, a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 12

10 Hackers Who Made History

The computer world has a rich history of hackers who steered the progress of computer science and gave shape to computers, the internet, and networking as we see it today—in some cases single-handedly. And while yes, there are the Black Hat hackers behind internet mayhem, thievery, and chaos, there are also White Hat hackers who…

Tech News Paul Escallier - MaximumPC Sep 12

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

You probably haven’t heard of Comodohacker. He operates alone. But on Thursday, he scared Google into issuing a warning for all of Iran—and he wants them to control the internet. The NYT got in touch with Comodohacker, who says he’s a 21 year old Iranian student, and asked him about the motives behind his sweeping…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 12

NBC News’ Twitter Feed Hacked with Fake Terrorist Attack (Updated)

Looks like Steve Jobs isn’t the only thing confusing twitterland: NBC News’ official Twitter account has been compromised, broadcasting an entirely false report of a terrorist attack at Ground Zero. The Anonymous-symapthetic group “Script Kiddies” (sweet name!) take credit. Ryan Osborn, NBC’s Director of Social Media, says “The @NBCNews account has been hacked. Working on…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 9

Sony Just Hired a Department of Homeland Security Alum

In the wake of this year’s nigh catastrophic hacking escapades courtesy of LulzSec, Sony’s just taken on former DOHS Cyber Security director Philip Reitinger as their new chief information security officer. Does this mean I can play PS3 now? [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/hackers-spill-over-1-000-000-sony-pictures-online-accou-5807996

Privacy & Security Kwame Opam Sep 6

RankMyHack Gives You Achievement Points for Your Ballsiest Cyber Attacks

2011 has seen some of the most brazen, daring cyber attacks to date, from the Arizona police to BART quite recently. It’s a bad time to be even a medium-sized name on the net. So let’s turn this into a game, shall we? RankMyHack.com is an old-fashioned leaderboard for the “hacking elite.” After signing up,…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 31

Familiar Headphones, Tweeting Strangers, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Klipsch Opens Pre-Orders for Android-Friendly Ear Buds The Klipsch S4As look awfully familiar. Where on earth have…

Social Media Brian Barrett Aug 29

Inside the FBI’s Hunt for Anonymous

We’ve seen the law’s efforts to smash Anonymous’ hacker network from the outside—mostly teens getting rounded up and cuffed. But what’s the offensive look like on the inside? Ars Technica got a firsthand look at the police work. The FOIA-liberated documents go back to ’08, before Anonymous was known for going on tears like the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 19

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Attacked By Hackers

As if stock markets of the world needed any more problems after the recent U.S. credit downgrade and the market catastrophe that followed. Yesterday, trading in seven Hong Kong stocks stopped after the exchange’s website was shut down by an attack. Poor poor stock market guys. Like most mysterious shut-downs as of late, authorities are…

Tech News Alyssa Bereznak Aug 11

Bad Guys Access 75,000 University of Wisconsin Social Security Numbers

If you attend, attended, teach, or taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, you might want to give the ol’ alma mater a call: planted malware just exposed 75,000 student and staff SS numbers to prying eyes. Whose prying eyes? It’s hard to say. The school suspects the target of the backdoor attack wasn’t social security…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 11

Anonymous To Destroy Facebook On November 5th (Update: Well, Probably Not)

The fifth of November: the day Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the English Parliament in 1605, and the day Anonymous threatens to destroy Facebook in 2011. A video press release from a purported member of the hacker group claims there will be an all-out assault that day that will bring down your favorite social…

Social Media Kelly Aug 10

BlackBerry’s Site Hacked After RIM Vows to Help Bring BBM-Using Rioters to Justice

There’s been talk over how the UK rioters have been using BBM as a means to organize the troublemaking that’s plagued London and UK cities the last three nights. In an act of retaliation, RIM’s Inside BlackBerry blog’s been hacked. https://gizmodo.com/scenes-from-a-riot-electronics-stores-sacked-by-britis-5829016 Calling themselves “TeaMp0isoN,” the hackers claim they did it because they opposed RIM helping…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 9

Hackers Could Help Prisoners Escape

Another scary finding from the DefCon hackers’ conference: prisoners could escape from their jails, if hackers decided to lend a hand and hack into the prison’s security systems. A couple of years ago a prison’s cell doors accidentally opened after a power blackout, which led security engineer John Strauchs to make the startling discovery that…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 9

How Did Jay-Z and Kanye Keep the Biggest Album of the Year from Leaking?

Kanye and Jay-Z, rap’s Zeus and Athena, have finally released their buzz-flinging collaboration, Watch the Throne. And it’s pretty good! But more impressively, unlike virtually every single album ever these days, it didn’t leak online first. How’d they do that? By exploiting tech to the fullest—both ignoring and embracing it to their advantage, XXL reports.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 9

10-Year-Old Ladyhacker Identifies Android and Apple Gaming Security Bug

Working under the name of CyFi, our 10-year-old friend showed off her discovery at the DefCon hacking conference, where she told of how boredom at the slow-moving phone games lead her to hacking, and identifying the security hole. After growing bored of the farming games she’d been playing on her phone, she found that advancing…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford Aug 8

How Facebook Uses Hackers to Keep Your Timeline Safe

Cops Arrest LulzSec and Anon Hackers—And One of Them’s Homeless (Updated: Names Named!)

Pranksters add Conan the Barbarian to the faculty of Irish college

Did Breaking News Just Get Hacked? (Updated)

If You Are Famous and Take Nude Photos of Yourself, They Will End Up on the Internet

This Cheap Air Drone Can Break Into Your Computer and Own It

10 Hackers Who Made History

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

NBC News’ Twitter Feed Hacked with Fake Terrorist Attack (Updated)

Sony Just Hired a Department of Homeland Security Alum

RankMyHack Gives You Achievement Points for Your Ballsiest Cyber Attacks

Familiar Headphones, Tweeting Strangers, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Inside the FBI’s Hunt for Anonymous

Hong Kong Stock Exchange Attacked By Hackers

Bad Guys Access 75,000 University of Wisconsin Social Security Numbers

Anonymous To Destroy Facebook On November 5th (Update: Well, Probably Not)

BlackBerry’s Site Hacked After RIM Vows to Help Bring BBM-Using Rioters to Justice

Hackers Could Help Prisoners Escape

How Did Jay-Z and Kanye Keep the Biggest Album of the Year from Leaking?

10-Year-Old Ladyhacker Identifies Android and Apple Gaming Security Bug

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