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The Hacktivist
Celebrity hacker Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang first clashed with US tech giant Microsoft for teaching others how to modify the Xbox. Almost 20 years later, he is suing the US government to push for the right to use and own technology, all while creating hackable hardware with other tech superstars like whistleblower Edward Snowden and firmware hacker Sean Cross. Bunnie is convinced that, “If you can’t hack what you have, you don’t own it.” This documentary tinkers with the hacker’s mind on issues around transparency and privacy in the hardware world, all while Bunnie dismantles his childhood, his philosophy, and his controversy.
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Kevin Mitnick: A Hacker Hero Has Died
Kevin Mitnick, who died at 59 on Sunday from pancreatic cancer on Sunday, began his career as a criminal hacker and ended as the best-known white-hat hacker.
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She was a notorious hacker in the ’80s — then she disappeared
In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared
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Hackers break into voting machines within 2 hours at Defcon
Hackers from around the world cracked into voting machines at Defcon convention in Las Vegas this weekend
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Hackers Are So Fed Up With Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves
As Twitter ramps up its efforts against fake accounts, researchers are devising algorithms to distinguish humans from bots in their spare time.
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Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree
A vulnerability in hotel keycard locks was a security disaster—and the opportunity of a lifetime for one burglar.
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FBI arrest of Marcus Hutchins (@MalwareTechBlog) has chilling effect | TechBeacon
If the FBI and DoJ are now criminalizing every white-hat who creates a PoC, they risk marginalizing the US’s role in infosec.
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Proposed Bill Would Let You 'Hack Back'
A congressman for Georgia has proposed legislation that would give victims of attacks rights to identify hackers and disrupt attacks.
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Looking for the fastest threat investigation solution? Found it!
Security Operations Center (SOC) teams want faster, more intuitive search and investigation built on their security operations (SecOps) platforms. We've heard this time and time again. We've listened, and are pleased to announce the launch of HPE Security ArcSight Investigate Early Access Program. ...
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Can implantable pacemakers and defibrillators be hacked?
Publicity around the cyber vulnerability of St. Jude's implanted cardiac devices has raised awareness of and actions against hacking medical devices. Are implanted cardiac devices at risk for cyber attacks? Yes, because any digital device that includes wireless communication is at least theoretically vulnerable, including pacemakers, ICDs and CRT devices. But so far, an actual cyber attack against any of these implanted devices has never been documented. And (thanks in large part to recent publicity about hacking, both of medical devices and of politicians), the FDA and the device manufacturers are now working hard to patch any such vulnerabi
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How to Perform Manual SQL Injection Hack - CodeGeek.io
SQL injection is a code injection method where the attacker input malicious SQL commands to extract hidden data and information from the website database.
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Black Hat and DEF CON: The song remains the same
The Black Hat conference has grown since 2009, but the threats people talked about at it and DEF CON largely remain the same.
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He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk.
Redirecting internet traffic from entire countries was one of the "ridiculously cool" projects undertaken by an NSA hacker who spoke with The Intercept.The sender was a hacker who had written a series of provocative memos at the National Security Agency. His secret memos had explained — with an earthy use of slang and emojis that was unusual for an operative of the largest eavesdropping organization in the world — how the NSA breaks into the digital accounts of people...
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In Cuba, An Underground Network Armed With USB Drives Does The Work Of Google And YouTube
In a country nearly devoid of Internet access, the weekly distributors of El Paquete create a window to online content.
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Nasa hack: AnonSec attempts to crash $222m drone, releases secret flight videos and employee data
Hackers from the AnonSec group who spent several months hacking Nasa have released a huge data dump and revealed they tried to bring down a $222m Global Hawk Drone into the Pacific Ocean. The hack included employee personal details, flight logs and video footage collected from unmanned and manned aircraft. The 250GB data dump contained the names, email addresses and phone numbers of 2,414 Nasa employees, 2,143 flight...
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US intelligence director's phone account was hacked, office says
Top spy James Clapper apparently latest official to become hacking victim, with calls allegedly set to be forwarded to Free Palestine Movement
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26-year-old Hacker Sent To Jail For 334 Years, Highest Ever For A Hacker
A 26-year-old hacker, Onur Kopçak, from Turkey, was sentenced to 135 years in prison on Sunday for stealing 11 people’s credit card information. This new prison sentence is served on top of his previous 199-year sentence from 2013. As a result, Kopçak will now serve a record 334 years in prison. This new sentence hs been approved by Mersin third Criminal Court of General Jurisdiction where he was accused of selling the stolen credit card records to other cyber criminals.
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Russia Suspected in First-Ever Cyberattack on Ukraine’s Power Grid
If Ukraine's grid was intentionally sabotaged, it could be classified as an act of war
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First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation
Highly destructive malware creates "destructive events" at 3 Ukrainian substations.
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Anonymous to release documents to prove Steven Avery is framed by police in a murder case
Anonymous gets involved in Steven Avery case, claiming police corruption. It is well known that the online hacktivist group, Anonymous takes sides against the police brutality. This time it has chose to side with Steven Avery who the police say murdered 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach Anonymous says it has evidence that could exonerate Steven Avery, the star of a recently released Netflix documentary series called “Making a Murderer.”
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