Hackers
"Impact Team," the person or group behind Sunday's infltration of AshleyMadison.com, released private information about and American and a Canadian user of the extramarital affair site.
The Chinese government has allegedly orchestrated a massive cyber attack into the iCloud accounts of its citizens. It seems that China has declared a war with Apple on privacy as the hacking coincided with the launching of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the country last week.
Criminals have found a flaw in the OS X and they're using it to hack into more than 17,000 infected Macs worldwide. Malware experts do not see any attack just yet, believing that hackers are still building their network at this stage.
Snapchat says it is adding new user privacy features after a holiday hack last week, when hackers exposed the private information of about 4.6 million Snapchat users. The young social media company also said it would beef up internal security to make it more difficult to get at account information, but noticeably offered no apologies.
Snapchat says it is adding new user privacy features after a holiday hack last week, when hackers exposed the private information of about 4.6 million Snapchat users. The young social media company also said it would beef up internal security to make it more difficult to get at account information, but noticeably offered no apologies.
In late 2010, a group of Anonymous hacktivists fired the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (otherwise known as the hacker group's distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack) at PayPal as part of "Operation Payback." On Thursday, 13 defendants who had been charged with that PayPal attack pleaded guilty in a California federal court.
If you were freaked out by recent reports that the NSA had a program to track users on the internet, you will probably not like to know this: According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, the FBI has hacking tools that can spy on suspects using their smartphone and laptop microphones, among many other tools.
This week in social media, Facebook surprised investors with great returns and growing mobile revenue, Pinterest announced you can opt out of being tracked, and hackers attacked Instagram users with smoothies. Yes, really.
As we get more wearable computing devices and an "internet of things," which all interact with each other, expect hacking to take on a new form, and significance. That's what the company that hacked Google Glass with a QR code believes.
Google says that it has released a fix to Android phone makers that will squash a big, big bug in the operating system. That huge bug left a massive hole for hackers to turn almost any official app into a Trojan Horse, and it affected nearly every Android smartphone that has been produced in the last four years.
Microsoft has released a statement concerning the hacking of several "high profile" Xbox Live accounts of current and former employees.
A well-known social media figure, Matthew Keys, has been indicted by the U.S. government for his interactions with the hacker group "Anonymous." He allegedly gave log-in information to some of the hackers to a computer server owned by Tribune Co, which owns the Los Angeles Times.
Attacks by hackers have breached Apple Inc. using malware specifically designed for Mac computers.
An unknown group of hackers bombarded Facebook with attacks but no user data was breached, company officials said yesterday, Reuters reports.
When you think of a typical televised emergency alert you think of potential road floods, heavy snows, and maybe powerful winds but a zombie alert? That's exactly what happened on tv sets across some counties in Montana.
