Microsoft has won a restraining order in a U.S. court in order to take control of domains used by an Iranian hacker group. The software and cloud giant applied to the court in order to take control of 99 websites used by the hacker group, known as Phosphorus or APT 35, in various hacking operations. […]
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Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s teenage hacker life
The 2020 democratic presidential candidate belonged to one of America’s oldest hacking group called “Cult of the Dead Cow” in the 80’s. O’Rourke wrote essays and poems for the group under the handle “Psychedelic Warlord.” Read more…
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View More Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s teenage hacker lifeBeto O’Rourke could be the first hacker president
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has revealed he was a member of a notorious decades-old hacking group. The former congressman was a member of the Texas-based hacker group, the Cult of the Dead Cow, known for inspiring early hacktivism in the internet age and building exploits and hacks for Microsoft Windows. The group used the […]
View More Beto O’Rourke could be the first hacker presidentResearchers obtain a command server used by North Korean hacker group
In a rare move, government officials have handed security researchers a seized server believed to be used by North Korean hackers to launch dozens of targeted attacks last year. Known as Operation Sharpshooter, the server was used to deliver a malware campaign targeting governments, telecoms, and defense contractors — first uncovered in December. The hackers sent […]
View More Researchers obtain a command server used by North Korean hacker groupHacker backpedals on his brazen threat to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account
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Can this hacker really delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account?
A Taiwanese bug bounty-hunter claimed this week that he would delete Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Facebook account and promised to stream the attack live on Facebook.
Now, in an unexpected twist, he’s backpedaling on his promise to livestream the deletion of Zuckerberg’s account — but not on the claim that he found a severe vulnerability within Facebook.
The scandal first broke when Bloomberg reported on a scheduled Facebook Event created by the 23-year-old Taiwanese hacker Chang Chi-yuan in which the hacker described “live-streaming the deletion of [Facebook] founder Zuck’s account.” Read more…
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View More Hacker backpedals on his brazen threat to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook accountProsecutors charge Russian accused of hacking JP Morgan, Dow Jones
New York prosecutors have extradited a Russian hacker accused of breaking into JP Morgan, one of the world’s largest banking institutions. Moscow resident Andrei Tiurin, 35, was charged Friday after he was extradited from neighboring Georgia, with the theft of over 80 million records from the bank in 2014. The alleged hacker is said to have […]
View More Prosecutors charge Russian accused of hacking JP Morgan, Dow JonesTesla’s new bug bounty protects hackers — and your warranty
Good news if you’re into hacking your car, you probably won’t void your warranty. The electric car giant confirmed the move in a tweet this week. Tesla’s product security policy now says that if, through “good-faith security research” you brick your car, the company will reflash the software over-the-air or at a service center. It’s […]
View More Tesla’s new bug bounty protects hackers — and your warrantyHacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it
It’s time to talk about election security. Over the weekend at Def Con, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas to discuss some of the latest and greatest (or scariest) trends in the wild world of hacking, a pair of election security hacking demonstrations set up for adults and kids alike offered up some frightening […]
View More Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did itOverflow error shuts down token trading
A recently discovered programming error can make some crypto tokens susceptible to hackers . The exploit allows a hacker to pass an unusually high value to the exchange and get a ridiculous number of tokens in exchange, a problem that has caused the Okex exchange shut down all token trading including one called BeautyChain (BEC). […]
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