Tag Archives: hacking

At least they didn’t get his Facebook account. Via Gizmodo: First the hackers came for Katy Perry. Now they’ve come for someone who should know better than to use the same password on multiple sites: Mark Zuckerberg. Turns out he’s as dumb as the rest of us. Zuck’s Twitter and Pinterest (though, crucially, not Facebook) accounts were hacked over the …

Apple CEO Tim Cook today issued a lengthy public letter which forcefully denounces a federal court’s order that his company provide the means to hack the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists.  The Associated Press reports: Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook says his company will fight a federal magistrate’s order to hack its users in connection with the …

Via the Mirror: Hacker group Anonymous have declared war against ISIS after the attacks in Paris on Friday night. Posting a video on YouTube, the group said it would use its knowledge to “unite humanity” and warned the terrorists to “expect us”. Behind their signature mask, a spokesperson speaking in French said: “Anonymous from all over the world will hunt …

The gay community may have dodged a huge bullet as it’s being reported that Ashley Madison execs were seriously considering buying Grindr before their hacking scandal. Forbes reports: Amongst the masses of emails dumped by The Impact Team, a group of hackers who have made a mockery of Ashley Madison’s digital defences this month, are a handful of conversations showing …

The hackers who last week shoved Ashley Madison into the global headlines have yet another big reveal. Gizmodo reports: The revelation is buried in what hackers say is 30-gigabytes of [Ashley Madison CEO Neil] Biderman’s emails. One of those emails is from Ashley Madison’s founding CTO, Raja Bhatia, who claims to have hacked Nerve.com’s then-new dating website. Security expert Brian …

Holy Family Duggar Research Duggar Council Duggar! Gawker has found TWO paid Ashley Madison accounts for Josh Duggar among the millions of user profiles released today by hackers. They write: Josh himself took to his family’s Facebook page to absolve himself of his past indiscretions and assure the world he was back on a righteous path. But data released online …

Hackers have followed through on their threat and posted user data from millions of Ashley Madison accounts. Wired reports: A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the …

Via the Associated Press: The parent company of Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses, says it was hacked and that the personal information of some of its users was posted online. In addition, the person or persons behind the attack are threatening to release all of the site’s personal information — including its members’ sexual fantasies and financial …

The normally staid SCOTUSblog fired out some interesting tweets last night.

Via the Indianapolis Star: The State of Indiana’s website was apparently hacked in response to Gov. Mike Pence’s signing of a controversial “religious freedom” bill. The state’s website, www.in.gov, had been down for several hours, according to readers, before coming back online after 3 p.m. An individual using the Twitter handle @YourVikingdom is claiming responsibility. “@IN_gov enjoy your website being …

Via the Washington Post: Social media accounts for the U.S. military’s Central Command appeared to have been hacked on Monday, with the command posting threatening messages on Twitter and YouTube to American troops. The first rogue tweet was posted about 12:30 p.m. It appeared to come from sympathizers with the Islamic State militant group. CENTCOM has orchestrated the U.S.-led airstrike …

Via Reuters: North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a “monkey” and blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. The National Defence Commission, the North’s ruling body, chaired by state leader Kim Jong Un, said Obama was responsible for Sony’s …

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Ancona is the Imperial Wizard of Missouri’s Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From the New York Daily News: The city of Ferguson is anxiously awaiting a grand jury’s decision whether to indict cop Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown in August. Several months of riots and unrest followed the shooting. “We will …

Via Raw Story: On Tuesday, the campaign continued, with Anonymous moving beyond the Klan to target racist websites like Stormfront.org and writing, “The aim of our operation is nothing more than Cyber Warfare. Anything you upload will be taken down, anything you use to promote the KKK will be shut down. DDoS attacks have already been sent and have infiltrated …

Yesterday afternoon Anonymous seized the Ku Klux Klan’s Twitter account after the hate group threatened to use “lethal force” during any protests over the coming decision on the indictment of the Missouri police officer that killed a young black man. The Riverfront Times reported that the St. Louis, Missouri KKK group passed out pamphlets starting, “Attention: To the terrorists masquerading …

Via Gallup: Americans may be more worried about hacking because a relatively high percentage of them say they have had their information hacked. A quarter of Americans, 27%, say they or another household member had information from a credit card used at a store stolen by computer hackers during the last year — making this the most frequently experienced crime …