Hacking

Rupert Murdoch Employed Hackers to Destroy a Pay-TV Rival

Everybody’s favorite octogenarian media tycoon is at it again. This time, Rupert Murdoch is accused of hiring hackers to crack a pay-TV rival’s encryption system and then post the hack on the internet in order to financially cripple them. It worked: they’re now bust. https://gizmodo.com/rupert-murdoch-is-now-on-twitter-5872381 The BBC reports that Murdoch enlisted Lee Gibling to hack…

Television Jamie Condliffe Mar 27

Malicious Chrome Extensions in the Official Chrome Store Are Being Used to Hijack Facebook Accounts

This is dirty. Hackers are uploading malicious Chrome extensions to the official Google Chrome Web Store in hopes of tricking people to download them. Once downloaded, the extensions have the ability to completely hijack Facebook accounts. Even worse, those malicious Facebook-jacking extensions are advertised on Facebook! The ads claim that it’s possible to change the…

Social Media Casey Chan Mar 26

Microsoft Raids Take Botnet Stings Into Its Own Hands

Over the weekend, Microsoft teams accompanied by United States marshals raided buildings and seized hundreds of web addresses to shut down a major botnet syndicate. The sting was part of a civil suit brought by Microsoft—because it was tired of waiting for law enforcement bodies to act. The New York Times reports that the raids…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 26

There’s a New Version of the Stuxnet-esque Duqu Trojan Floating Around and Nobody Knows What It Does

A newly surfaced version of the Duqu trojan indicates that the authors of one of the most sophisticated computer worms in recent memory are aggressively trying to figure out how to attack their next target. Researchers at Symantec have analyzed the mysterious new file, W32.Duqu, which is one of the components of the of the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Mar 23

Hackers Stole 174 Million Personal Records in 2011 (And a Ton Were by Anonymous & Co.)

Verizon just put out its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and you can probably guess what it says: 2011 was a banner year for hackers, and represented a huge statistical comeback. They compromised a total of 174 million records, 100 million of those in activism/for-the-lulz ops by Anon, Lulzsec, and friends. 2011 in a nutshell,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Mar 22

NASCAR’s Mark Martin to Race Under the Name of the Guy That Stole His Twitter Account

NASCAR racer #55 Mark Martin recently had his Twitter account hacked, his access revoked, his account name name changed to EPICSWAGG, and his followers spammed. So how does a professional driver get his revenge? By stealing the hacker’s name and using it for himself. https://jalopnik.com/nascar-driver-twitter-account-hacked-driver-hacks-back-5895175 “I felt naked,” Martin told CBS Sports. “I was locked…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 22

Which Government Spies Are Buying These Shameless Hackers’ Secrets?

Forbes has an interesting look at French security firm Vupen, which claims to sell its zero day exploits of popular software and operating systems (including iOS) to government agencies for six figure sums. But it raised several questions for me. Vupen has publicly showed off exploits of Chrome but generally keeps its work private, preferring…

Privacy & Security Mat Honan Mar 21

Duqu Framework’s Mystery Language Identified as Custom C

When Kaspersky Labs revealed its analysis of the Duqu Trojan earlier this month they were stumped by a block of code that appeared to be a previously unseen programming language. With the help of the Internet, Kaspersky’s identified the code, not as a new computer language, but rather, an old one. https://gizmodo.com/whoever-wrote-the-duqu-trojans-framework-wrote-it-in-an-5891789 The block of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 19

BBC News: We’ve Been Hacked by the Iranians

BBC News’ outlet BBC Persia was reportedly hacked by Iranian authorities this evening. The news group claims that the cyber-attack is part of an expanding effort by the regime to stifle coverage within the country. BBC’s director-general, Mark Thompson, reported that BBC’s London office was inundated with robo-calls and also that a group had attempted…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola Mar 13

Digital Playground Has Been Hacked—Credit Cards, Logins, and Porn All Stolen

A new hacker collective emerging from the Post-Sabu SNAFU calling itself The Consortium has made its presence known by stealing Porn-purveyor Digital Playground blind. https://gizmodo.com/lulzsec-leader-betrays-all-of-anonymous-5890825 The collective not only stole the full credit card information—which was in plaintext—and logins from some 72,000 DP customers, it obtained root access to the site’s servers. This granted The…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola Mar 13

Whoever Wrote the Duqu Trojan’s Framework Wrote It in an Unknown Programming Language

The Duqu Trojan is one nasty piece of code, rivaled in sophistication only by its relative, the Stuxnet Worm. A new analysis of the Trojan, however, has revealed just how advanced it really is. Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab performed the analysis and discovered that portions of the the suspiciously-named Payload DLL file were written…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Mar 8

How Bender Bending Rodriguez was elected head of the Washington school board

In 2010, the Washington, DC, election board set up an electronic voting system to collect absentee ballots. But a few weeks before the election, the system was flooded with votes for the hard-drinking, grave-robbing robot Bender for school board head. So who launched this plot to put a robot in charge of our children’s education?…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 3

Hacked DC School Board E-Voting Elects Bender President

Yes, that Bender. The one on the left. A University of Michigan team got him elected to the Washington DC school board in 2010 by hacking the district’s electronic absentee ballot system. In 2010, the school board in Washington DC had just erected a new electronic voting system for its absentee constituents. To test the…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola Mar 2

25 Anonymous Suspects Arrested in Global Interpol Sting

Dozens of alleged Anonymous members have been arrested in a global clampdown, spanning Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain. Coorindated by Interpol, the arrests were carried out by national law enforcement officers around the world. The suspects are aged between 17 and 40, and the Telegraph reports that they “are suspected of planning coordinated cyber-attacks against…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Feb 29

New Banking Hack Chats with You as It Empties Your Account

Recent attempts to separate a user from his banking credentials have employed some highly advanced methods. But this new take on the Man in the Browser attack just seems downright dastardly—we’re talking mustache-twirling levels of deviousness. https://gizmodo.com/new-man-in-the-browser-attack-bypasses-banks-two-fact-5882888 The hack works like this. The attacker will target business and online commercial banking customers by infecting their…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola Feb 28

Google’s Giving $60,000 to Whoever Can Exploit Chrome

While both Safari and IE collapsed under the pressure from hackers at last year’s Pwn2Own contest, not one person was able to crack Chrome. This year, Google’s sweetening the pot with a million dollars in prizes to successful exploiters. In fact, Chrome is the only browser in the contest’s six year history to not be…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 28

Kindle’s Free 3G Connection Hacked For Tethering

You know that free 3G connection on your Kindle that lets you download books from anywhere you are? Well a hacker named Andrew D’Angelo has found a way to tether to the ereader giving you free internet access on another device. Don’t get too excited, though, there are a few caveats to the hack. For…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 27

iBook’s DRM Defenses Are Now Only for Show

Apple’s iBooks have always been protected from running on unauthorized devices thanks to the company’s FairPlay DRM. That is, until Requiem version 3.3 decided to throw a cow over iBook’s walls. Requiem is a popular app designed to remove the protections placed on music and movie content purchased from the iTunes store. However, the newest…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Feb 25

YouPorn Gets Caught With Its Pants Down—Users’ Email and Passwords Compromised

It looks like the Internet sex site YouPorn just took one in the eye. A years-old coding error has exposed the emails and passwords of over a million of its smut-loving chat users. The YP site itself wasn’t hacked but rather its associated sex-chat site—which is run by an outside company—somehow left bales of unencrypted…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola Feb 22

NSA: Anonymous Could Cause Power Outages Through Cyberattacks

Anonymous already has a diverse set of tactics, including showing up to awards ceremonies. But the NSA is worried that its cyberattacks could bring about power outages across the US. https://gizmodo.com/anonymous-invades-the-spanish-academy-awards-ceremony-f-5886437 The Wall Street Journal reports that Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, has described in private meetings how “Anonymous could have the ability…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Feb 21

Rupert Murdoch Employed Hackers to Destroy a Pay-TV Rival

Malicious Chrome Extensions in the Official Chrome Store Are Being Used to Hijack Facebook Accounts

Microsoft Raids Take Botnet Stings Into Its Own Hands

There’s a New Version of the Stuxnet-esque Duqu Trojan Floating Around and Nobody Knows What It Does

Hackers Stole 174 Million Personal Records in 2011 (And a Ton Were by Anonymous & Co.)

NASCAR’s Mark Martin to Race Under the Name of the Guy That Stole His Twitter Account

Which Government Spies Are Buying These Shameless Hackers’ Secrets?

Duqu Framework’s Mystery Language Identified as Custom C

BBC News: We’ve Been Hacked by the Iranians

Digital Playground Has Been Hacked—Credit Cards, Logins, and Porn All Stolen

Whoever Wrote the Duqu Trojan’s Framework Wrote It in an Unknown Programming Language

How Bender Bending Rodriguez was elected head of the Washington school board

Hacked DC School Board E-Voting Elects Bender President

25 Anonymous Suspects Arrested in Global Interpol Sting

New Banking Hack Chats with You as It Empties Your Account

Google’s Giving $60,000 to Whoever Can Exploit Chrome

Kindle’s Free 3G Connection Hacked For Tethering

iBook’s DRM Defenses Are Now Only for Show

YouPorn Gets Caught With Its Pants Down—Users’ Email and Passwords Compromised

NSA: Anonymous Could Cause Power Outages Through Cyberattacks

FCC Exempts Netgear from Foreign-Made Router Ban for Some Reason

Jamie Dornan Is Your New Aragorn in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

Trump’s Fed Pick Is Knee Deep in Tech and Crypto Investments

The First Trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Takes Terror Stateside

The Trump Phone Still Looks Like Total Trash

‘Masters of the Universe’ Really, Really Wants to Be the Next ‘Barbie’

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