An anonymous researcher took control over some 420,000 Internet connected-devices in order to "map the whole Internet in a way nobody had done before." We read about this project on Motherboard. The researcher came up with several beautiful still and moving images, including this .GIF, which s... Read more...
On Friday, Anonymous called for an Internet blackout in protest of CISPA, which passed the House on Thursday. If signed into law, CISPA would make it legal for websites to give your personal information to the U.S. government without your permission. Naturally, the hacker collective anonymous is... Read more...
Two US congressmen today asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate recent accusations that Facebook tracks its users even after they log out of the social network, an issue the company says it has since fixed. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Joe Barton, a Texas Republica... Read more...
Charlie Miller is a well-known Apple hacker who happened across a surprising iOS security flaw, reports CNN. If a malicious developer were to exploit the flaw, he'd gain total control of the compromised phone. It would be effortless to steal a user's contacts and photos or to send te... Read more...
An enterprising hacker in Ireland named Steve Troughton-Smith has successfully ported Siri to his iPhone 4, reports 9to5Mac. Siri is supposed to be exclusive to iPhone 4S owners. Troughton-Smith is a well-known iPhone hacker who's been liveblogging the Siri hack on his Twitter feed. He announce... Read more...
An online break-in at a defense contractor left tens of thousands of .mil email users at risk of having their account illegally accessed or even hijacked for nefarious purposes. A hacker collective that calls itself AntiSec said Monday that it had stolen 90,000 military email addresses and en... Read more...
No windows mobile jokes now right?? Yeah...didnt think so AT&T has begun contacting smartphone customers who are using the mobile hotspot feature of phones without paying for the AT&T service. These customers are primarily iPhone owners who have jailbroken the phones to allow using the ph... Read more...
By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to date, according to a nor... Read more...
(CNN) -- The popular microblogging site Twitter was hacked briefly by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army, but the site was quickly restored after the incident early Friday. Those who tried to access Twitter were redirected to a site displaying a green flag and proclaiming, in English, ... Read more...