Tag: hacker
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How to Update Your iPhone to iOS 9.2.1 and Avoid Security Flaw
Security pros have recommended iPhone users to update their phone software to avoid a serious security flaw which was identified last week. The vulnerability, discovered in June and made public on Tuesday, could allow hackers to access text and messages as you’re typing them, as well as website logins and payment details which are all…
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Hacked Cortana Appears For Android
The Cortana digital assistant is one of the main attractions for Windows 10, both on PC and mobile. the intelligent smart program behind Cortana lets her make helpful suggestions and understand search queries spoken, similar to Siri on iOS. However, Microsoft is promising a better service than Apple’s, and it looks like that service won’t…
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Chinese Govt. Allegedly Attacks iCloud
Well, it’s not a big surprise that following a massive launch of the iPhone 6 in China that there’s been a little bit of a problem between Apple’s iCloud and Chinese hackers. The device was released in China en masse last week. It’s not clear who orchestrated the attack on iCloud, with Great Fire, an…
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UK government recruiting spies through social media
Code-cracking game from GCHQ gives you the chance to apply for a job
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Anonymous Threat: Facebook will fall on 5th of November
Tech and social mischief makers, Anonymous have issued video statements on clip site YouTube – making its intentions known towards Facebook and encouraging others to ‘kill’ their beloved Social Network tomorrow, the 5th of November. On the same date as their mascot Guy Fawkes threatened to topple parliament in the gun powder plot of 1605,…
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Anonymous turns anti-hero in fight against child abuse online
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Anonymous, the online hacking troupe that has previously crippled world governments and entertainment giants has turned its attention to cleaning up the internet from child pornography and preventing paedophilia. The tech troublemakers have issued a warning to a number of servers, in particular Freedom Hosting, accusing the web hosts of “openly supporting” child pornography. This…
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Microsoft offers free Windows Phone tools to developers following death of WebOS
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Microsoft’s Senior Director of Windows Phone 7 has reached out to HP developers, whose WebOS platform has recently gone down in flames. Offering a new avenue for operating system tinkerers and giving them the tools to create new applications for the mobile OS, soon to be launching its ‘Mango’ update on Nokia, Samsung and HTC…
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Android users invite bug bedlam claims security expert
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A number of bugs within some of the apps running on Android mobile handsets could cause bedlam, says security expert Riley Hassell. Speaking of a security flaw in some apps on the Google operating system which could disturbingly allow Android handsets, for example your new Samsung Galaxy S 2, to be control remotely by hackers the…
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Hackers expose Android design flaw vulnerability
Oh dear, hackers at this year’s DefCon conference have exposed a design flaw in the Android operating system which can potentially allow malicious users to steal data via phishing as well as display those annoying pop-up ads. The folk over at Cnet report that potentially if an Android device has been compromised, it could mean…
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Apple Hacked! Anonymous & LulzSec tag-team take credit for hit on Cupertino co.
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After high profile hits on tech and entertainment companies and world governments, it seems someone has finally taken a bite out of Apple – with members of hacker group Anonymous claiming an attack on the Cupertino, California based tech company. The Twitter account AnonymousIRC (a tag-team of members from both LulzSec and Anonymous) has claimed the intrusion…
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Apple Hacked! Anonymous & LulzSec tag-team take credit for hit on Cupertino co.
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After high profile hits on tech and entertainment companies and world governments, it seems someone has finally taken a bite out of Apple – with members of hacker group Anonymous claiming an attack on the Cupertino, California based tech company. The Twitter account AnonymousIRC (a tag-team of members from both LulzSec and Anonymous) has claimed the intrusion…
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Facebook hires iOS & PS3 hacker “GeoHot”?
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A hacker who infamously cracked Apple’s iPhone and Sony’s Playstation 3 appears to have gone and gotten himself an honest job – with the social network giant Facebook. Reports suggest 21 year-old George Hotz – otherwise known as the online aliases “GeoHot” and “Million75” – has been snapped up by Facebook after turning down a…