Tag: hacking

Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw | TechCrunch
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The hacker, who goes by Vizor, tells TechCrunch that they exploited a bug in the popular game's anti-cheat software for months.

08/11/24 | hace 6 días | techcrunch.com

Fired employee accessed company’s computer \'test system\' and deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000
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The 39-year-old man, who was \"confused and upset\" after being fired, deleted 180 virtual servers from NCS\' computer system.

14/06/24 | hace 153 días | www.channelnewsasia.com

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
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A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to "infect" over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular 'Dracula Official theme...

13/06/24 | hace 154 días | www.bleepingcomputer.com

What We Learned Inside a North Korean Internet Server: How Well Do You Know Your Partners?
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A misconfigured North Korean Internet cloud server has provided a fascinating glance into the world of North Korean animation outsourcing…

24/04/24 | hace 204 días | www.38north.org

El backdoor de xz/libzma y cómo fue descubierto - Tecnogeek
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Poco a poco auditó el código hasta que dio con las cosas que no deberían haber estado allí, esto lo hizo descubrir, casi de casualidad, el compromiso más

02/04/24 | hace 226 días | www.tecnogeek.com

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
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Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, \"the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.\"

01/03/24 | hace 258 días | www.wired.com

Epic Games ha sido hackeada: han robado casi 200 GB de datos, contraseñas y hasta el código fuente
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Un grupo de ransomware denominado Mogilevich ha hackeado a Epic Games y aseguran haber robado 189 GB de datos importantes.

29/02/24 | hace 259 días | elchapuzasinformatico.com

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them
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After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from service.

14/12/23 | hace 336 días | www.404media.co
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I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with Ads
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The cord is detected as a "computer" and tracks “favorite videos, videos watched, and bookmarks,” as well as “Location Data, Sensor Data, Tracking Cookies Data, and Installed Apps Data.”

30/09/23 | hace 411 días | www.404media.co

Researchers watched 100 hours of hackers hacking honeypot computers | TechCrunch
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Security researchers set up a network of honeypots and observed hackers taking control of them and using them for different purposes.

10/08/23 | hace 462 días | techcrunch.com

Review: Beepy, A Palm-sized Linux Hacking Playground
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In the long ago times, when phones still flipped and modems sang proudly the songs of their people, I sent away for a set of Slackware CDs and embarked on a most remarkable journey. Back then, runn…

09/08/23 | hace 463 días | hackaday.com

Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones
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BrutePrint requires just $15 of equipment and a little amount of time with a phone.

27/05/23 | hace 537 días | arstechnica.com