Items tagged with Hacking

The Nintendo Switch 2 has had an impressive launch, quickly becoming one of the fastest-selling consoles of all time and currently on the path to continuing the success of its predecessor. However, the company is eager to avoid one... Read more...
A recent campaign by 3AM ransomware actors found the team using more proactive techniques rather than simple opportunistic hacks by pretending to be IT support. Using a combination of email bombing and spoof IT support calls, unwitting... Read more...
In a recent study, scientists sounded the alarm on the vulnerability of DNA data, particularly those obtained through next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS), against nefarious hackers. While no known bio-data breach has occurred in the real... Read more...
Michael Scheuer and his legal team have entered a guilty plea for hacking Disney World's restaurant menu-creation software, altering allergen information, inserting swastikas, and changing wine regions to mass shooting locations. Among... Read more...
Linux is a modern operating system that supports all of the latest technologies, but it's also a legacy-friendly system that dates back to 1991. If it's a computer, you can probably run Linux on it, except that, owing to its origins in... Read more...
Large-scale data breaches are a dime a dozen nowadays, but that doesn't make them any less serious or consequential. Automaker Toyota faced yet another breach of its network, this time with around 240GB worth of files. The data reportedly... Read more...
AT&T on Friday issued a notice saying it suffered a data breach that affects "nearly all" of its cellular customers (not to be confused with a separate AT&T data breach earlier this year). At last official count, AT&T said it serves around... Read more...
Registered members of Cooler Master's Fanzone program should be on extra high alert for phishing attempts and other cyber shenanigans, like unusual (and otherwise unexpected) credit card charges. That's because a hacker purportedly managed... Read more...
When you think of prison, you probably do not think of technology, and in fact, you may think of the lack thereof. However, a plethora of correctional facilities and inmates utilize technology, and not just that which is smuggled in. Laptops are great for educational, leisure, and other... Read more...
It must be a Thursday, because there's been another major data breach that affects millions of consumers and may force you to change passwords. The target of the latest attack was Comcast, which has confirmed that online criminals ran... Read more...
Caesars Entertainment Inc. has paid off a $15 million ransom held by a hacker group to prevent sensitive client data from being sold on the dark web. The casino group was hacked a few weeks ago and is seemingly working hard to mitigate the... Read more...
From 2021 to 2022, the LAPSUS$ hacking group went on a PWNing spree, popping boxes at companies such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Rockstar. Since then, though, the teens behind the group have been arrested, likely partly due to the... Read more...
Kevin Mitnick, who was once the most wanted computer hacker in the world turned security consultant, has died at the age of 59. Per his obituary, he passed away peacefully after a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer. In the mid to... Read more...
Earlier this month, a Swiss hacker who goes by the name maia arson crimew exfiltrated a copy the US government’s No Fly List from an insecure server. This list, which names individuals who are forbidden from flying anywhere within US... Read more...
Yesterday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) published a joint cybersecurity advisory warning network... Read more...
FanDuel is sending out emails to customers letting them know of a security incident that compromised certain private details. According to the email, which we received first-hand, the security breach occurred at a third-party vendor that... Read more...
The first day of Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has come and gone, and Samsung’s Galaxy S22 has had it rough, with more potential abuse yet to come. A variety of printers and routers from different companies have also taken some beatings. Pwn2Own is... Read more...
Security analyst Sam Croley is a specialist in password cracking, and has just found a new best friend: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Impressively, the Ada Lovelace architecture flagship graphics card is over twice as fast at password... Read more...
Cheats can be fun in a single-player game, but quickly ruins everyone’s experience in a multiplayer game. Rampant cheating can create such a miserable experience that people will stop playing the game entirely, right? Cheat maker... Read more...
WordPress is one of the most popular and thus commonly used content management systems (CMS) on the web. However, it has a particular problem with add-on, extension, and plug-in authors abandoning their projects, and subsequently leaving... Read more...
Would it truly be 2022 if we were not informed of at least one data breach each week? Sadly, no institution is safe from the hands of bad actors. Flagstar Bank recently disclosed that 1.5 million of its customers were impacted by a data... Read more...
WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Meta that employs the end-to-end encryption Signal Protocol, is massively popular worldwide. The app boasts more than 2 billion users, which is over a fourth of the world's population. Unsurprisingly... Read more...
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