Tag: hackers
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Popular Adult Website Offers $25K to Viewers Who Find Security Bugs
Popular adult video resource PornHub is offering up to $25,000 to viewers who find security vulnerabilities in its website.The bounties for finding a bug in the streaming site’s defence starts at $50 a pop, with the top money shot awarded for spotting a major boob – making it a nice little earner for those who…
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Apple Stands up to U.S Government to Protect iPhone User’s Privacy
Now I’m not an Apple product user myself, and honestly I’ve never bought into the hype. To each their own. That said, I, like many others this morning have been rather surprised/impressed by this honest statement to Apple customer’s by the company’s CEO Tim Cook which doubles as a ballsy comeback to the U.S Government…
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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…
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Lizard Squad Kept Its Rent-a-hack Customers’ Info in Plain Text
The Lizard Squad for those of you who have missed it, have essentially become mercenary “hackers” offering DDoS for hire. Fantastic right only Lizard Squad are idiots, following ruining peoples Christmases by taking down Xbox Live and the PSN because they could (I didn’t have one but I did take back to back support calls…
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NFC Pay System CurrentC Hacked Already
Here’s another cautionary tale from the tech industry, especially for the slew of up and coming startups and companies involved in the NFC payment business that’s set to explode in early 2015 (along with just about every other new tech phenomenon, it’s been a busy 5 years). SEE ALSO: Naim Launches the mu-so its First…
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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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SnapSaved Responds To Hacking
Image Credit: AIVAnet.com After we learned about SnapChat photos numbering in the hundreds of thousands had been leaked to the internet by hackers, we were quick to cover the issue as well as publish our very own guide to keeping your pictures safe on the internet. SnapChat themselves weren’t to blame for the issue…
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How To: Protect Your Photos From Hackers
Image Credit: Know Your Meme The recent hacking attack on Apple’s iCloud service, which led to many celebrities, male and female alike, having private naughty photos leaked to the internet following hacking attacks, has prompted everyone to rethink the way they use image sharing services online, and the do’s and dont’s with regards to posting…
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LulzSec Hacking Collective Brought Down From the Inside by Leader ‘Sabu’
Several high profile members of the LulzSec hacking collective have been arrested this morning, in several raids which took place on two continents. The group’s infamous leader, ‘Sabu’, has been helping law enforcement agencies bring down the group, acting as a cooperating witness. We’ve not heard a great deal from the LulzSec group in a…
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Anonymous hacking group set to bring down Facebook?
Date has been set for an apparent social networking Guy Fawkes Night
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Pwnie Awards nominations for Sony following PSN “Epic Fail”
It’s a term we think many of us used when earlier this year Sony’s Playstation Network was breached, pulled down and left more than a hundred thousand user’s credit card information exposed to theft – and now Sony is being honoured, in a fashion, by those behind the annual “Pwnie Awards” in a category entitled…
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AnonPlus Hacked! – Hackers turn on each other after government & entertainment hits
Are hackers becoming tired of easy pickings, the likes of entertainment giants and world governments? It would seem some are now turning their attentions to the challenge of hacking other hacker groups – as AnonPlus has reportedly been pulled following an intrusion by a rival gang. The collective known as Anonymous recently attempted to invade…