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Hackers Post 10GB Stolen Data as Ashley Madison Stays Online
It has been a while since hackers attacked the online cheating site Ashley Madison where the hackers claimed that they had downloaded pretty much all relevant information about the users from the site. For those who don’t know it, Ashley Madison is an online dating site specifically designed and advertised…
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Hosting Companies Could Be Hit With New DDoS Attack
Denial Of Service (Or DDoS) attacks have become more and more frequent in recent years with the expansion of the internet and the speeds it can deliver information. A denial of service attack is pretty simple, you find the device you wish to disrupt and send as much data as…
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Ukrainian Hackers Helped US Insider Trader Earn $100 Million in Illegal Profits
An unlikely union between a bunch of Ukrainian hackers and unscrupulous US stock traders yielded profits of up to $100 million through illegal insider trading. The hackers stole confidential press releases, which it then made available to traders, over the course of five years, US authorities have revealed. Nine people…
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Hacked to Death: How Hackers Can ‘Kill’ You
Hackers can steal your details, your money, and even your identity, but at least victims of such attacks still had their health, eh? Not anymore: industrious keyboard-tappers can actually kill you. As in, a malicious computer-user can use a global exploit to have a living person declared legally dead. The…
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Hack Targets Email System Of The Pentagon
NBC news is reporting information which has been supplied by US officials who have stated that Russia has launched a “sophisticated cyber attack” with the aim being the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system. The email system has since been shut down by being taken offline for almost two weeks.…
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Cooler Master US Site Hacked and Defaced
As companies are bombarded everyday by malicious attacks, more and more data breaches have been popping up in the news. Cooler Master is no exception and looks to be learning a lesson about security as their US website was taken down by hackers and defaced. Going by the tag “xMr.Goreman404_IDx”, we…
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Hackers Took Up Residence Inside Government PC for a Year!
I recently wrote an article which looked at the Cyber attack and subsequent theft of 4.2 million American Federal data of employees which was transferred from the Office of Personnel Management to an external source. At the time it seemed to be a well orchestrated planned attack which granted criminals…
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GTA Player Hires Cheater to Save Him From Another Cheater
Rev Drucifer loves Grand Theft Auto V Online. It’s the only game he plays, clocking up about 80 days, real time, of time on it. It is his life. But there is one obstacle tainting his adoration, something that pushed him into taking drastic measures: cheaters. “I wanted to start…
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Data Breach: The Sure Fast Way to Become a Retail Pariah
“18.5M Californians lose data to hackers” Shocking weekly headlines such as this illustrate the growing problem of major data breaches at multinational enterprises and have both consumers and operators crying foul. In fact, these large data breaches have spawned a 600 percent increase in the number of California customer…
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Up to $900 Million Stolen Online in Biggest Bank Robbery Ever
In a 21st Century bank job, thieves don’t even need to step foot on the premises, let alone have a getaway car primed: all you need is a computer and the right software. According to a report from The New York Times, tech security firm Kaspersky has been tracking a…
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Need A Hacker? Hire One on This New Website
A new website has been launched called ‘Hackers List‘, that allows you to post jobs available for actual hackers. Essentially, think of the site as a sort of oDesk or People Per Hour for computer hackers. This may seem like a joke, but people really are using this thing, posting jobs requiring…
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Crayola Facebook Page Hacked – Flooded With NSFW Content
When you think of Crayola, you think of youthfulness and innocence, a child scribbling with his or her favourite colour crayons perhaps. What you don’t think of is “The Worst Kind of Boobs”, “Reasons why girls don’t give blow jobs” and “Disney For Adults”. That pretty much summarises what happened to…
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Xbox One Software Development Kit Leaked
A Hacker group called H4LT has obtained and leaked the Xbox One software development kit (SDK), allowing home developers to create their own homebrew software for the Microsoft console. In a short interview with The TechGame, H4LT claim, “We leaked it to the community because if something is shared then…
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Fingerprint of Politician Cloned Just From Public Photos
A member of the Chaos Computer Club has reportedly ‘cloned’ the fingerprint of a politician from Germany solely using publicly available images taken by press at a conference. Jan Krissler created a usable copy of German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen’s fingerprints using only images and computer software. The software presumably…
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Lizard Squad Attacks Tor
Lizard Squad, the hacker group responsible for the Christmas Day attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, has turned its sights upon anonymous internet server, Tor (The Onion Network). https://twitter.com/LizardMafia/status/548525026027507712 Lizard Squad’s latest attack seems to be designed to compromise users’ anonymity by commandeering Tor’s relay nodes. If the hackers…
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