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A vigilante hacker took down 20 percent of the dark web after finding child porn
An attack on the Dark Web left a whopping 20 percent of it in shambles. On Friday, a vigilante managed to hack into Dark Web hosting service, Freedom Hosting II, after realizing that it was allowing child pornography sites. As first reported by the Verge, visitors to more than 10,000 sites on Friday saw not their expected content, but rather a message that read, “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.”
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Hackers Stole Credit Card Information From Thousands of Arby's Customers
Hackers have stolen customer credit card information from an unknown number of Arby’s restaurants, according to a report on Thursday. The fast food chain discovered in mid-January that it suffered a data breach that affected a number of Arby’s corporate restaurants, according to cyber-security reporter Brian Krebs.
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'It's easier to hack an election than eBay': confessions of a Belarusian hacker
Sergei Pavlovich, known as Policedog, sheds light on the community accused of aggressive activity on behalf of the Kremlin
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Hackers flood Isis social media accounts with gay porn
Online commenters have praised an anonymous hacker's efforts to disrupt the Islamic State militant group's social media accounts by filling them with gay porn. The hacker, who goes by the name WachulaGhost, started targeting the Isis accounts after being deeply affected by the notorious shooting at the Orlando Pulse nightclub in Florida in 2016, in which 49 people were killed and 53 wounded. Isis later claimed responsibility for the massacre, carried out by US citizen Omar Mateen.
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Russian hackers extort money from Trump’s critics
Russian hackers conducted a series of attacks on American liberal organizations, demanding a ransom for non-disclosure of confidential information they had obtained through hacking their e-mails and networking applications like SharePoint that allows sharing Microsoft Office files, Bloomberg reported citing sources with information from the FBI and private security companies.
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The new season of a much-loved Netflix series has leaked online early following hack
A hacker who was holding Netflix to ransom following claims they have stolen the new season of Orange Is the New Black has leaked episode online. Variety has confirmed that the hacker, known as The Dark Overlord, uploaded the episodes to illegal file-sharing website Pirate Bay after the streaming service failed to pay an undisclosed amount of money. Netflix released a statement earlier saying: “We are aware of the situation. A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved.“
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NHS hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack
Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients. The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs. NHS Digital said it was aware of the problem and would release more details soon.
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Hackers break into centralized password manager OneLogin
Hackers have gained access to OneLogin, an online password manager that offers a single sign-on to multiple websites and services. OneLogin said in a blog post that it couldn't rule out the possibility that hackers got keys to reading encrypted data, such as stored passwords.
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Al Jazeera media platforms under cyberattack
Website and digital platforms of entire Doha-based network undergoing 'systematic and continual hacking attempts'. The websites and digital platforms of Al Jazeera Media Network are undergoing systematic and continual hacking attempts. These attempts are gaining intensity and taking various forms. However, the platforms have not been compromised.
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Parliament hit by cyber-attack
The UK Parliament has been hit by a cyber-security attack. MPs were reportedly told about the hack on Friday night and later told of difficulties in accessing their emails away from the Westminster estate. A Commons spokeswoman said the lack of email access was not a result of the cyber-attack itself but part of the steps being taken to manage the issue. She said Parliamentary authorities were liaising with the National Cyber Security Centre.
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Petya cyber attack: Ransomware spreads across Europe with firms in Ukraine, Britain and Spain shut down
Major firms, airports and government departments in Ukraine have been struck by a massive cyber attack which began to spread across Europe on Tuesday afternoon.
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Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes at competition
Hackers at at a competition in Las Vegas were able to successfully breach the software of U.S. voting machines in just 90 minutes on Friday, illuminating glaring security deficiencies in America's election infrastructure.
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Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info
It’s cyber deja vu time in Hollywood. HBO just confirmed that hackers broke into their servers and stole an unknown quantity of data. Now, unreleased episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have appeared online as well a script that looks an awful lot like next week’s Game of Thrones episode. This is not a drill.
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A Hacker Turned an Amazon Echo Into a 'Wiretap'
EVERY GOOD PARANOIAC sees an always-listening device like an Amazon Echo as a potential spy sitting in plain sight. Now one security researcher has shown exactly how fine the line is between countertop computer and surveillance tool. With just a few minutes of hands-on time, a hacker could turn an Echo into a personal eavesdropping microphone without leaving any physical trace.
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There's a Simple New Way to Find Out if Hackers Already Have Your Password
Passwords suck. They're hard to remember, we all have about a million of them, and they're not supposed to be anything easy or memorable like your cat's name (sorry Furball1).
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HBO is reportedly trying to get $250,000 in bitcoin to pay hackers who stole 'Game of Thrones' scripts
HBO offered $250,000 as a "bounty payment" to a hacker who stole TV show scripts from the company, according to an email obtained by CNBC, but a source familiar with the situation said it was just a "delay tactic." Details of a data breach at HBO came to light last week. Scripts from shows such as "Game of Thrones" were leaked online ahead of Sunday's episode. A hacker or group called "Mr. Smith" claimed responsibility and said they had around 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO.
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HBO: hackers leak unaired Curb Your Enthusiasm and Insecure episodes
Hackers have leaked a trove of unaired episodes of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Insecure, Ballers, Barry and The Deuce, as they continue to in their efforts to extort the US television network. The leaks over the weekend did not include any further episodes of Game of Thrones, but did include the latest episode of Insecure, which was due to be broadcast on Sunday evening, and several episodes of the highly anticipated new series of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is due to return in October.
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The Story of America's Creepiest Unsolved TV Hack
On November 22, 1987, Chicago sportscaster Dan Roan was covering the highlights of the Bears recent victory over the Detroit Lions. It was his usual spot during Channel 9’s “Nine O’Clock News” segment, one he had been doing for years, always the same. Tonight, however, it would be different. At 9:14, Dan Roan disappeared from the screen. In fact, everything disappeared from the screen as it flickered into darkness. Then, fifteen seconds later, a new figure appeared.
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How Russia hacked the world: Putin's spies used 'digital hit list' to hunt global targets
The hackers who upended the US presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, US defence contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated Press.
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Russia-linked hacker edited DNC email to call it 'confidential': report
The Russia-linked hacker behind a massive breach at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) altered a stolen email by labeling it "confidential," a move intended to draw attention from the news media, The Associated Press reported Friday. The email in question was the first document published by the hacker Guccifer 2.0 in June 2016. Billed as coming from the DNC, the email was actually stolen from John Podesta, the former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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