Tag: hack
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10 Gadget Tips to make life a little easier
Here at Gadgethelpline, we are obviously spending most days helping people out with their gadgety issues. Today, however we thought a few cheap easy gadget tips that everyone can take advantage of would be in order. After scouring the internet for your pleasure the following 10 tips should help out, or at least, give you […]
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Drone wars – parrot hack
Citrix engineer, Rahul Sasi has found and exploited a backdoor in Parrot Drones (AR). The parrot hack allows the flying machines to be remotely hijacked. The Hobby hacker developed what he said was the first malware dubbed Maldrone which exploits a new backdoor in the drones. Rahul said the backdoor could be exploited for any […]
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Will Xbox Live and PSN Be Down On Christmas?
The one thing we’ve noticed about the high level form of geek is they truly believe people care about video games as much as they do. Therefore, almost every year it seems, disgruntled weirdo beardos threaten to take down online gaming services on Christmas. Yes, it really is this cringe worthy and petty. The […]
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Vodafone Reports Security Leak of 1,800+ Customer Details
Customers of UK network Vodafone may have to reset their accounts and check their bank accounts as thousands of details have reportedly been leaked in a security breach which happened last week. Vodafone claims the 1,800+ customer records were not obtained through the company itself but via an external unknown source. How these details fell […]
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Carphone Warehouse Confirms Cyber Attack – Customer Credit Card Details at Risk
Carphone Warehouse has revealed this weekend that earlier in the week the company’s IT systems got hacked and up to 2.4-million of its customers’ personal information including names, addresses and bank details may have been compromised. An investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Met Cyber Crime department is under way to find out […]
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Phishing Emails Still Major Security Problem
Phishing e-mails are certainly one of the oldest methods of infecting a computer with a virus – the rogue mail lands in an inbox and awaits a user clicking on a link or attachment within that leads to a virus being downloaded. According to Verizon, in a new Data Breach investigations report, users are still […]
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Wikileaks Publishes Sony Pictures Emails
Controversial website WikiLeaks has published the entire archive of hacked e-mails lifted from the inner workings of Sony Pictures. The website has claimed that the information held within the archive warrants the entire collection to be maintained and protected for the public to see. One of the reasons behind the enshrining of the hack’s contents […]
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Facebook Photos at Risk: How to Safely Store Them to PC
Facebook users could have been at risk of having their photos deleted according to a newly uncovered vulnerability. The potentially catastrophic flaw was reported by software engineer Laxman Mutivah who was able to take advantage of the security hole and delete an album from behind the curtain of the world’s most populated social network. Fortunately […]
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Mac OS X ‘Thunderstrike’ Bug Patched
It was Google that spotted several Mac OS X flaws as part of their ongoing crusade against looming security holes known as Project Zero. The initiative scours the internet for zero day exploits, security holes which are present in a system from the moment it is released that the manufacturer is unaware of. Google’s pet projects […]
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Facebook & Instagram Down: Lizard Squad Not Responsible
Facebook, Instagram and a number of other social services all mysterious dropped out of action around the same time this morning (approx. 6am UK time) causing widespread panic across the internet. Many of those whose online social life had been temporarily disrupted for up to an hour took to Twitter (which was thankfully not affected) […]
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Sony Offers 5 Days Extra PlayStation Plus Membership
Sony has begun compensating it’s PlayStation Plus subscribers for the interruptions to services over the Festive period by issuing a five day extension to membership to cover the downtime and also a 10% discount in the PS Store. In an email being send around to customers now, Sony thanks it’s faithful for their patience and […]
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The Most Popular Passwords of 2014
In the digital age we live in, it’s paramount that we unsure that our important data is as secure as possible. Each year, SplashData compile a list that shows the most popular passwords used over the last year. The data is taken from the millions of passwords that have been stolen over the last 12 […]