All the stories tagged with hacking
[Updated] Anonymous to “kill” Facebook come November 5th?
08/10/2011, Ever needed a reason to make the jump to Google+ permanent and exclusive? Well it seems that the hacker group Anonymous has just declared war on Facebook, claiming that they will “destroy” Facebook come November the 5th, which just so [...]
Researchers manage to hack mobile data communications
08/10/2011, Researchers are rather stoked to show off their skills and technical know-how in breaking the encryption which was actually put in place to protect information sent over the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). GPRS is the standard which is commonly [...]
Hackers can help inmates break out of prison
08/09/2011, Just when we thought that hackers freeing prisoners only happened in the movies, at the recent DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, researchers revealed that it is possible for hackers to help prisoners escape from prison. They realized this [...]
AnonPlus gets defaced again, this time by Syrian hackers
08/09/2011, A couple of days ago, hacking collective Anonymous went ahead and defaced the Syrian Ministry of Defence’s website, leaving a message that supported the residents in Syria who were pro-democracy. I guess the arrest of LulzSec’s alleged leader, Topiary, did [...]
Android Network Toolkit app turns anyone into a hacker
08/08/2011, Ever wondered what it’s like to be a hacker? You’re probably curious as to what the fuss is all about and why people hack for fun and now there’s an app on Android that allows you to do just that. [...]
North Korea reportedly using gold farmers to fund its government
08/08/2011, For those unfamiliar with the concept of gold farming, it’s where players in an MMO game such as World of Warcraft basically spend hours on end (sometimes they use bots) killing monsters and looting them for gold. The gold is [...]
Zero-day flaw in games discovered by 10-year old
08/08/2011, You are never too young to hack – and that applies to CyFi, the handle for a 10-year-old hacker who graced DefCon 19 by revealing a zero-day exploit in games which are available on both iOS and Android-powered devices, and [...]
Hackers discover a way to hack into your car’s remote control app
07/28/2011, There’s so much technology out there nowadays when it comes to protecting our vehicles from theft. They range from more primitive methods of physically locking the steering wheel with a lock or to more complex systems where you can be [...]
LulzSec spokesperson Topiary arrested (Update)
07/28/2011, Update: The police might have been tricked into apprehending the wrong person – it seems that website LulzSecurityExposed claims Topiary is a 23-year-old Swede. The UK authorities did not comment on the situation as to whether they bagged the right [...]
Anonymous finds their social networking website AnonPlus hacked
07/21/2011, Remember a couple of days ago we reported that Anonymous decided to start their own social network, AnonPlus, after they were rather unceremoniously given the boot from Google+? Well as it turns out, just because they’re hackers and know how [...]
LulzSec is back and hacks into The Sun’s website
07/19/2011, We had initially thought that the hacker group LulzSec had decided to hang up their hats and call it a day, as they had publically announced they would do so via their Twitter account. Well it looks like they might [...]
Skype vulnerability issue will be fixed this week
07/18/2011, A couple of days ago, security vulnerability for Skype was discovered by Levent Kayan, a Berlin-based security researcher. What he had discovered was this exploit which allowed malicious hackers to enter a string of JavaScript code into the “mobile phone” [...]
Only jailbroken iPhones, iPads are safe from latest security vulnerability
07/07/2011, Typically phone manufacturers and platform developers discourage against the hacking of their products, probably due to intellectual property issues or perhaps in legitimate concern that by hacking or changing the device/software in any way may compromise it and leave it [...]
