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CIA boss John Brennan's personal email 'hacked'
US authorities are investigating reports that CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account has been hacked by a high-school student. The alleged hacker told the New York Post that he had found work-related files such as Mr Brennan's application for a top security clearance.
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Infamy and alias: 11 famous hackers and their handles
On the Internet, nobody knows you're not in the mafia
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Cyberthreat Real-Time Map
Find out if you're under cyber-attack here
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The many (surprisingly realistic) hacks of 'Mr. Robot'
While we wait for the last episode of Mr. Robot’s first season, we've put together an episode guide to the show's standout hacks, and the research behind the show’s very real tools and techniques.
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Ashley Madison Hackers Speak Out: 'Nobody Was Watching'
The company's security was bad, the hackers say. They have 300GB of employee emails and docs from internal network, tens of thousands of Ashley Madison user pictures, some Ashley Madison user chats and messages.
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New privilege escalation bug hits Mac OS X
Released without prior notification, the bug allows attackers to run programs as though they are the administrator of the computer
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How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
Any large and alienating infrastructure controlled by a technocratic elite is bound to provoke. In particular, it will nettle those who want to know how it works, those who like the thrill of transgressing, and those who value the principle of open access. Take the US telephone network of the 1960s: a vast array of physical infrastructure dominated by a monopolistic telecoms corporation called AT&T. A young Air Force serviceman named John Draper – aka Captain Crunch...
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The man making puzzles for hackers
If you want to know how to keep 16,000 geeks entertained, ask the Lost Boy aka Ryan Clarke. He's the cryptographer and puzzle master at Def Con, the huge annual international conference for hackers, taking place again in Las Vegas. The fact that Def Con has a puzzle master at all is just one of the many reasons this conference is unlike any other.
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Fed Tells Room Full of Hackers to Hack His Phone, Drinks Whiskey
The deputy secretary of Homeland Security called for hackers to work more with the government.
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U.S. researchers show computers can be hijacked to send data as sound waves
A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send information out of an office through
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Hacking the Digital and Social System
When you live in a totalitarian, controlled and “happy” society, and you want to be a hacker, you have to hack the social system first. Being just an engineer doesn’t cut it, you have to be a hypocrite, dissident and a smuggler at the same time. That’s the motto of my personal story, which starts in Yugoslavia, and ends in Serbia. No, I didn’t move, I’m still in Belgrade, only the political borders have changed... By Voja Antonic.
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Hackers Just Figured Out How to Do Something Absolutely Terrifying to This Sniper Rifle
Oh, sh*t.
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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway - With Me in It
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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Adobe Flash exploit that was leaked by Hacking Team goes wild; patch now!
As Ars reported Tuesday morning, the previously unknown Flash vulnerability was part of some 400 gigabytes of data dumped on the Internet by unknown attackers who hacked Hacking Team over the weekend. By Tuesday afternoon, the critical flaw was being targeted in the wild by an array of malware titles, including the Angler and Nuclear exploit kits, as first reported by Malwarebytes (and later documented by the security researcher known as Kafeine). The exploit has also been folded in to...
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Mr. Robot Is the Best Hacking Show Yet—But It’s Not Perfect
The show actually understands hackers and hacking. But it doesn't get everything right.
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Hacking Team hit by breach; leak suggests it sold spyware to oppressive regimes
The elusive Italian spyware and hacking tool provider -- particularly for law enforcement -- had its corporate insides revealed over the weekend.
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Decoding a PHP SuperGlobals exploit program • Conetix
Back in April I released an article called "Byte encoding exploits in PHP files", at the time we had not seen a PHP exploit coded in that way ...
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Nude celeb iCloud hack: Feds seize Chicago man's computers
‘Targeted attack’ traced back to IP address
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Global DDoS Attacks Resemble Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
In our Q2 2015 DDoS Global Threat Landscape Report we share unique research data, collected in the course of mitigating thousands of DDoS assaults against Imperva Incapsula-protected domains and network infrastructures...
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Hacker told F.B.I. he made plane fly sideways after cracking entertainment system
A well-known U.S. hacker told F.B.I. agents he took momentary control of an airplane’s engines mid-flight by hacking into its inflight entertainment system, according to a document filed in U.S. federal court and obtained by APTN National News. Roberts, who has been interviewed at least three times by the F.B.I. this year, is under investigation for allegedly hacking into the electronic entertainment systems of airplanes, according to an application for...
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