Here you will find all the articles with the tag: hack.
A total of 773 million unique email addresses and 22 million unique passwords were dumped online on cloud service MEGA. The dataset, titled Collection #1, contains 2,692,818,238 rows of data coming from different online services. Security researcher Troy Hunt announces in a blog post that he has bee... Read more
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Security researcher Paulos Yibelo revealed about ten bugs that made it very easy to steal sensitive information or to take over a customer's account via hacks. The bugs were in some of the largest web hosting companies on the internet, reports TechCrunch. In a number of cases it was enough to click... Read more
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A new hack campaign has been discovered that uses various techniques to manipulate the DNS records of several organisations worldwide. FireEye researchers are writing about the campaign. The records of governments, telecom companies and internet infrastructure organizations are being hacked. The cam... Read more
5 years ago
A 20-year-old student has confessed to being guilty of one of the biggest data breaches in Germany, reports Reuters. In that attack, hundreds of German politicians - including Chancellor Angela Merkel - were hacked into journalists and other well-known people. The police have not indicated who the ... Read more
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Coinbase and Kraken have stopped trading the ethereum classic. A hack attack caused double transactions to appear in the blockchain of the crypto currency. This means that the transfer of ethereum classic was not possible. According to Coinbase and Kraken, a so-called 51 percent attack took place. S... Read more
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There was a bug in Skype that made it easy to bypass Android security. It's the combination of bad design and a bug that made it possible to bypass Android's locking screen by answering a Skype call. That's what nineteen-year-old bughunter Florian Kunushevci reports to The Register. The bughunter di... Read more
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Riot among members of the German Bundestag. A number of them want the federal IT security office, the BSI, to be reorganised as soon as possible. That is what the Members of Parliament want because, at the end of December, the private data of hundreds of German politicians were placed online. The w... Read more
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Last December someone hacked printers to support YouTube star PewDiePie. Now the hacker is active again and claims to have hacked these Chromecasts, smart-tvs and Google Home devices. The hacker wants to help PewDiePie with the hacking of equipment, although it is not certain to what extent this wil... Read more
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A hacker group called The Dark Overlord announced Monday that it had hacked into a law firm. This law firm handles cases related to the attacks of 9 September 2001. The hackers now threaten to publish a large number of internal files, unless a ransom is paid. The Dark Overlord announced the attack ... Read more
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Last weekend, the printing works and deliveries of several large American newspapers came to a standstill. This is due to an attack that may have been carried out with the Ryuk-ransomware. The attack had an impact on, among others, printers of Tribune Publishing, one of the largest publishers of reg... Read more
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