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Here’s How Easy It Could Be for Hackers to Control Your Hotel Room
Shenzhen is the Silicon Valley of mainland China. Situated about 50 minutes north of Hong Kong, the modern city is home to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and numerous high-tech giants and startups. So naturally, the city’s five-star hotels regularly host wealthy moguls in their luxury rooms. Last year, one of those hotels also hosted a hacker from Spain who discovered that he could seize control of the wealthy guests’ highly-automated rooms.
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The Strange Story Of How Microsoft Seized A Big Chunk Of The Internet, Then Broke It
There's a group of people at Microsoft who are like internet superheroes on a mission to protect the world from evil hackers. And this week, that group convinced a judge to turn over a chunk of the internet to their control, and then messed up that control, bringing websites down for "millions" of people.
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Mysterious cyberattack compromises more than a thousand power plant systems
The security firm Symantec has uncovered a malware campaign from a group dubbed Dragonfly that allowed remote access to the computer systems of more than a thousand power plants. According to Symantec, the attackers used the malware only to spy on system operations, but could have used the remote-access functionality to wreak considerably more havok had they decided to.
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Watch hackers attack each other in real-time
A US security company called Norse, which specializes in darknet monitoring, has built a real-time map that shows where cyber attacks are being launched from around the world.
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Over 300,000 servers remain vulnerable to Heartbleed after initial wave of patches
Two months ago, security experts and web users panicked when a Google engineer discovered a major bug — known as Heartbleed — that put over a million web servers at risk. The bug doesn't make the news much anymore, but that doesn't mean the problem's solved. Security researcher Robert David Graham has found that at least 309,197 servers are still vulnerable to the exploit.
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It's time to say goodbye to the password
It’s time to speak the ugly truth: The notion of a password is dead.
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Even Toilets Aren’t Safe as Hackers Target Home Devices
Come home to a hot iron and smoldering clothes this afternoon? Soon, it may not be a sign of forgetfulness, but rather evidence that you’ve been hacked.
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Chinese military hacker accidentally outs himself in blog posts
A US cyber security firm has fingered yet another Chinese military branch as being the culprit behind a wide ranging hacking program targeting US industry.
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Romania sentences hacker 'Guccifer' to jail
A Romanian court sentenced hacker "Guccifer", who broke into the emails of former U.S. president George W. Bush's family, entertainment figures and the head of the Romanian secret service, to four years in jail on Friday.
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Thought better of it: NSA can get rid of evidence, judge says
A federal judge who ordered the National Security Agency to retain all records of its secret telephone surveillance related to an ongoing case has reversed the order – just a day after it was issued.
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U.S. disrupts major hacking, extortion ring; Russian charged
A U.S.-led international operation disrupted a crime ring that infected hundreds of thousands of PCs around the globe with malicious software used for stealing banking credentials and extorting computer owners, the Justice Department said on Monday. Authorities in nearly a dozen countries worked with private security companies to wrest control of the network of infected machines, known by the name of its master software, Gameover Zeus.
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Federal Agents Just Brought Down the World’s Worst Botnet
An international operation led by the Department of Justice has disabled a hacking network that generated losses of more than $100 million in the U.S. since 2011. In an announcement on Monday, the department also disclosed charges against a 30-year-old Russian allegedly behind the Gameover Zeus botnet, a web of hundreds of thousands of infected computers used to steal money from bank accounts.
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'Hacktivist' group Anonymous plan cyber-attack on World Cup 2014 sponsors
Anonymous have announced they are preparing to launch a cyber-attack on the World Cup’s corporate sponsors during the tournament that starts in two weeks. In an interview with news agency Reuters, one masked member of the group who called himself Che Commodore, said that preparations for a wide-scale campaign had begun.
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Your car is a giant computer - and it can be hacked
Imagine driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour, when suddenly the wheel turns hard right. You crash. And it was because someone hacked your car.
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Prosecutors: Hacker helped thwart 300 cyberattacks
A prolific computer hacker who infiltrated the servers of major corporations later switched sides and helped the government disrupt hundreds of cyberattacks on Congress, NASA and other sensitive targets, according to federal prosecutors.
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U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Def Con hacker event
U.S. officials are considering using visa restrictions to prevent Chinese hackers from attending popular summer hacker conferences in Las Vegas as part of a broad effort to curb Chinese cyber espionage, a senior administration official said on Saturday.
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U.S. Case Offers Glimpse Into China’s Hacker Army
One man accused of being a hacker for the Chinese military, Wang Dong, better known as UglyGorilla, wrote in a social media profile that he did not “have much ambition” but wanted “to wander the world with a sword, an idiot.” Another, Sun Kailiang, also known as Jack Sun, grew up in wealthy Pei County in eastern China, the home of a peasant who founded the ancient Han dynasty and was idolized by Mao.
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Blizzard Is Suing Starcraft II Hackers
Blizzard is taking legal action against a group of StarCraft II players who created a set of cheats and hacks for the real-time strategy game.
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Attack of the Superhackers
A group of ex-soldiers cracks safes, picks locks and steals data — all in the name of corporate security.
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Delta caught storing passwords in clear text
Delta Skymiles takes security very seriously. If you forget your password they will only reveal your password to you in a secret envelope mailed to your physical address. That means it’s really secure!! There’s just one problem… Delta is storing passwords in clear text and their computers are plugged in to the internet!
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