Hackers

Sony Awarded Dubious “Epic Fail” Award at Hackers’ Oscars

A Pwnie award was given to Sony at last week’s Black Hat computer security conference’s Pwnie Awards, which looks at the past year’s hacking efforts and awards them with My Little Pony trophies. Sony’s major security breach from earlier in the year was the only hacking incident to be nominated for the top prize. https://gizmodo.com/sony-will-have-psn-up-and-running-with-a-week-5796528…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 8

Hackers Defile Hershey’s Website by Changing a Single Recipe

Nothing is safe. Not even chocolate. As indicated by a recent letter sent to their customers, Hershey just suffered a security breach that resulted in a changed recipe. I really hope they didn’t change their chocolate chip banana bread. The Consumerist reports that someone broke into the Hershey’s server and messed with a recipe on…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 3

The Father of JailBreakMe Hacks Because He Loves Apple

Comex—or Nicholas Allegra, as the 19-year-old’s parents call him—is the brain behind JailBreakMe, perhaps the most popular of all iPhone-busting software packages, and a pain in Apple’s ass. But Forbes reports he does it because he’s a fanboy. It’s a game for Allegra—and not one of torment, but one of a sort of mutual respect.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 1

Why All Those Hacks Aren’t Quite as Bad as You Thought

OHMYGOD THE CIA WAS HACKED. Well, sort of. A little. But spray-painting a bank is pretty different from robbing it. https://gizmodo.com/woah-lulz-security-just-took-on-the-cia-5812380 That’s not to diminish the accomplishments of LulzSec and/or Anonymous, which are still quite impressive! It’s just that maybe we should reserve our enthusiasms—or indignation—for when it’s most warranted. [xkcd] https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-hacks-the-times-with-brutal-murdoch-death-notic-5822392

Books & Comics Brian Barrett Aug 1

This Is Topiary, LulzSec Mastermind (Updated)

Topiary’s been unmasked. 18-year-old Jake Davis, the alleged hacker chief behind LulzSec’s many prominent internet assaults had his first day before a judge. And if the court’s claims are true, the kid’s pretty screwed. https://gizmodo.com/alleged-lulzsec-top-boss-arrested-in-scotland-updated-5825198 Neo shades notwithstanding, the police have some pretty damaging evidence against the teen, TNW reports: a purported cache of 750,000…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 1

PayPal Fights Back By Giving 1,000 Anonymous IPs to the FBI

Looks like it’s PayPal’s turn in this volley. After Anonymous started an anti-PayPal campaign last week in response to all the recent arrests, PayPal has come back with what they believe are the IP addresses of those responsible for last year’s DDoS attacks on their servers. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-mounts-legal-protest-against-paypal-5825068 Now, this could be PayPal blowing a whole…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jul 31

Anonymous Mounts Legal Protest Against PayPal

Anonymous has PayPal in its crosshairs but this time it’s using a legal strategy to battle the online payment processor. Because of PayPal’s role in the AntiSec arrests, the hackers are asking people to voluntarily close their PayPal accounts. https://gizmodo.com/19-year-old-alleged-lulzsec-hacker-arrested-in-england-5813954 The hacking group hopes to get 10,000 people to support their anti-PayPal movement. Anonymous admits…

Tech News Kelly Jul 27

America’s Chief Cyber Defense Warrior Abruptly Resigns

Randy Vickers, Director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), is outta there. With neither warning nor explanation, Vickers resigned from defending government and private sector networks from attack, Information Week reports. Which does explain his exit. This summer has seen one of the most vivid and inexorable hacking sprees in recent memory—maybe ever.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

Anonymous Strikes Back at Italian Cops with 8 Gigabyte Leak

An Anonymous and AntiSec affiliated hacker has released an alleged 8 gigabytes of data from Italy’s CNAIPIC cyber defense police squad. The dump holds data on defense, corporate, and intelligence agencies from around the world. Plus goofy personal photos. Clearly a retaliatory attack after Italian cops arrested Anon suspects earlier this month, the data cache…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 25

MacBook Batteries Are Totally Hackable. Wait, What?

One security researcher discovered the password protecting the microcontroller in MacBook batteries is not unique for every notebook and is easily hackable. It could brick your battery, or worse, install malware that’s nearly impossible for the average person to scrub. According to Forbes, Charlie Miller is the man who discovered this vulnerability and he plans…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 22

Dickhead Hacker Stole Photos of Naked Girls and Posted Them to Their Facebook

Joseph Bernard Campbell, a 24-year-old prick, managed to break into the e-mail accounts of 19 different girls and steal nude pictures of them. He would then post the nude pics as the girls’ Facebook profile picture for everyone to see. He took advantage of the girls, whom he knew from high school, through a phishing…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 21

Anonymous Claims Gigabyte of Stolen NATO Goodies (Updated)

Undeterred by a rash of arrests, the hackers at Anonymous are boasting “about one gigabyte” of data from NATO. But they’re not going to publish most of it, as it’d be “irresponsible.” The rest? “Interesting data,” they say. Attacking NATO seems like an odd choice. Anonymous has very public and very strident sympathies with the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 21

Hackers Hacked the Hackers’ AnonPlus Social Network

My brain hurts trying to keep all the different factions of hackers in line. After being booted off Google+, Anonymous started building their own site, AnonPlus—which has now been hacked by a group calling themselves “TURKIYE.” https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-is-working-on-anonplus-a-facebook-for-hacker-5822130 While it could be some elaborate joke played out on us ordinary non-hackin’ folk, to grab more headlines…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 21

Was Dwyane Wade Hacked By Angry Mavericks Fans?

NBA star Dwyane Wade is headed to Texas — no, he’s not going to apologize sheepishly to Maverick’s star Dirk Nowitzki. He’s traveling to the Lone Star State to testify in a hacking case. https://deadspin.com/heres-lebron-james-and-dwyane-wade-mocking-dirk-nowitzk-5810707 For the last five years, Wade has been under attack from hackers that live in Texas. These unidentified perps reportedly…

Tech News Kelly Jul 19

Watch British News Baffled by Mysterious ‘Louise Boat’ Hackers

The only thing more embarrassing than the media awkwardly defining “lulz” like a sex ed teacher explaining blowjobs is mistaking LulzSec for an enigmatic woman named Louise. Who apparently has some sort of boat. It’s a “hacking thing,” you see. https://gizmodo.com/the-medias-awkward-attempts-explaining-what-the-hell-lu-5814889 The shockingly clueless team at Sky News scratched their heads as they watched The…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 19

LulzSec’s UK Sun Hack, Explained

The UK Guardian has the low down on how LulzSec’s primetime hack of the UK Sun went down. It happened in two phases: one was discovering an exploit in the “contact us” section. The other was the discovery of a retired server. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-hacks-the-times-with-brutal-murdoch-death-notic-5822392 The email vulnerability is thought to have been discovered by LulzSec hackers…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert Jul 19

FBI Expands Anonymous Hacker Arrests Nationwide (Updated: London Too!)

New York was just the start: the FBI’s knocked (on? down?) doors in Florida, New Jersey, and California today, Fox News reports—part of what the FBI is describing as a wide assault on the nebulous collective. “I can confirm that we’re conducting law enforcement actions relating to a criminal investigation,” said a rep for the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 19

FBI Raids New York Anon Hacker Suspects

You can only go with the whole fuck the police ethos before they flip that creed around—federal agents landed at three New Yorkers’ doorsteps this morning, seizing computers and peripherals. I’d expect much more of this. [Fox 2]

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 19

#AntiSec Hackers Spill News of the World Chief Rebekah Brooks’ Email Login to Entire Internet (Updated)

The fruits of today’s Sun UK hack are starting to dangle down: LulzSec (out of retirement?) and Anon are tweeting logins of some serious British media brass. Foremost? Rebekah Brooks, the epicenter of England’s voicemail hacking scandal. Update: phone numbers! https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-hacks-the-times-with-brutal-murdoch-death-notic-5822392 The tweet divulged the email and password info for one Rebekah Wade—Brooks’ maiden name—along…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 18

LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice

Well, seems like LulzSec has returned, and moved beyond the DDOS attack! Not content to merely shut down one of Rupert Murdoch’s paper’s websites, the hacking group has instead planted a bizarro-Onionesque account of the mogul’s death-by-palladium on a Times redesign page masquerading as The Sun. Well played, #AntiSec. The the hack was first announced…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 18

Sony Awarded Dubious “Epic Fail” Award at Hackers’ Oscars

Hackers Defile Hershey’s Website by Changing a Single Recipe

The Father of JailBreakMe Hacks Because He Loves Apple

Why All Those Hacks Aren’t Quite as Bad as You Thought

This Is Topiary, LulzSec Mastermind (Updated)

PayPal Fights Back By Giving 1,000 Anonymous IPs to the FBI

Anonymous Mounts Legal Protest Against PayPal

America’s Chief Cyber Defense Warrior Abruptly Resigns

Anonymous Strikes Back at Italian Cops with 8 Gigabyte Leak

MacBook Batteries Are Totally Hackable. Wait, What?

Dickhead Hacker Stole Photos of Naked Girls and Posted Them to Their Facebook

Anonymous Claims Gigabyte of Stolen NATO Goodies (Updated)

Hackers Hacked the Hackers’ AnonPlus Social Network

Was Dwyane Wade Hacked By Angry Mavericks Fans?

Watch British News Baffled by Mysterious ‘Louise Boat’ Hackers

LulzSec’s UK Sun Hack, Explained

FBI Expands Anonymous Hacker Arrests Nationwide (Updated: London Too!)

FBI Raids New York Anon Hacker Suspects

#AntiSec Hackers Spill News of the World Chief Rebekah Brooks’ Email Login to Entire Internet (Updated)

LulzSec Hacks The Times with Brutal Murdoch Death Notice

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