An Instagram Hacker Filled Someone’s Account With Adorable Photos Of A Corgi Wearing Hats
Most adorable hacking ever.
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OpUSA Attack On Federal Government Either Didn’t Happen Or Didn’t Work
“Whatever it is didn’t even rise to ‘give a damn’ levels,” federal official says.
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Federal Government Hunkers Down For Massive Cyber Attack Tuesday
Middle Eastern “OpUSA” hackers expected to attack feds Tuesday. Questions over White House preparedness.
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Everything You Need To Know About The Syrian Electronic Army
Anonymous isn’t the only hacker organization causing headaches for media companies and politicians.
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South Korea Suffers Server Outages At Major TV Networks, Banks
Computer networks of the nation’s key broadcasters and banks were completely paralyzed Wednesday in what appeared to be a cyber attack, police said.
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The Shockingly Easy Process Behind The Celebrity Credit Report "Hacks"
What’s being described as a massive hack in fact took advantage of an easily exploited loophole.
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Hacker Apparently Reveals Credit Reports Of 11 Major Celebrities And Politicians
Jay-Z, Hillary Clinton, and Mel Gibson are among the 11 celebrities and politicians who appear to have had their personal information leaked.
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The Absolute Worst Way To Handle Being Hacked
Courtesy of J.R. Smith, leading NBA goofball.
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"Skype Sextortionist" Faces 105 Years In Prison, Allegedly Forced Women To Send Him Thousands Of Nude Photos
Karen ‘Gary’ Kazaryan is indicted with 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft for stealing women’s nude photos and blackmailing them for more.
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Watch How A 4chan Hoax Happens
On Monday night, BuzzFeed sat in on a private chatroom full of anonymous 4chan members as they put together a follow-up prank to their #Cutting4Bieber Twitter hoax on Monday. WARNING: Extremely NSFW language.
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Hacker Group Exploits Massive Security Hole In Tumblr
This morning a hacker group called the GNAA created a worm that unleashed a flood of racist spam into users’ dashboards. Here’s how to protect yourself.
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How To Be A Hacker
One simple trick discovered by a mom to hacking the planet.
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Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Twitter Accounts
“People should be changing their passwords,” says a victim whose account was hacked — and even put up for sale.
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19 Food Tips That You Need To Know
Your world will never be the same.
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MIT Completes the “Holy Grail of Hacks,” Turns Building Into a Playable Game of Tetris [Slideshow + Video] on bostinno.com ›
The students at MIT love a good hack, but what’s better than playing a game while doing it? This week, a team took over the side of MIT’s Green Building and turned it into a giant, playable, multi-color Tetris game.
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Anonymous Is Hacking Government Sites In China Now
Chinese authorities have confirmed that the network of hackers known as Anonymous successfully compromised several government websites last month.
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Last Night’s Anonymous Attack As Told By 4chan’s /b/ Board
Last night hacktivist group Anonymous carried out a massive DDOS attack on multiple government websites, along with the RIAA and MPAA’s websites. We were lucky enough to be sitting in on the 4chan thread as it was happening (NSFW language, obviously).
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Anonymous Fights Pepper Spray With Personal Information
In response to Lt. John Pike’s pepper spraying of UC Davis protestors, the international hacking group Anonymous has put out this video urging people to flood his home phone, cell, email, office, and mail box with messages condemning his actions. What do you think? Is this a fair response to an officer’s use of pepper spray?
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Anonymous Vows To “Erase The NYSE From The Internet”
As part of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests, Anonymous has released a new video announcing plans to strike the New York Stock Exchange with a DDoS attack on October 10th. Before you get too excited, the stock market can still function without NYSE.com.
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England Is Awesome!
Jon Stewart discovers that CSPAN in the United States has absolutely nothing on the UK’s live political entertainment. View Media ›
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Rupert Murdoch Gets Some Things Off Of His Chest
When we saw Rupert Murdoch interrupt his son this morning to “say one sentence,” it seemed only fair to alter his words, considering that he’s built an empire on doing just that. Make your own! With our sarcasms combined, we’ll become something that could make him feel sort of bad! View List ›
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Massive Phone Hacking Scandal Leads To Investigation Of Rupert Murdoch Company, Tabloid Shut Down Amid Uproar
UPDATE: Bowing to intensifying public and political pressure, Rupert Murdoch’s son has announced that the News of the World will publish its last issue on Sunday. The uproar in Britain over a tabloid hacking into private cell phone data has intensified as it was revealed some of the phones may have belonged to dead soldiers, missing children and victims of terrorist attacks. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called the revelations “absolutely disgusting” and has called for public inquiries, on top of an ever-widening police investigation, into the scandal. View List ›
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Celebrity Phone Hacking 101 on aolnews.com ›
Unfortunately, this is not a “how to” guide.
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Great Moments in Hacking on ugo.com ›
The phreaking hall of fame.
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How to Install Mac OS X on a PC (Without Using a Mac) on makeuseof.com ›
Great progress has been made in hacking PCs to run OS X, and it is now possible to install Mac OS X without a Mac. Thanks to some great tools put together by some brilliant hackers, it is also much easier and does not involve nearly as much time and effort as was once required.
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WiiSpray
WiiSpray turns your Nintendo Wiimote into a virtual spray paint can. Wheeeeeeeeee! This one’s just a prototype out of Bauhaus University, but still, very cool. Watch Video ›
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GMZ
Meet the 18-year-old hacker behind the recent string of celebrity Twitter takeovers. He was able to hack into a Twitter staffer’s account because that staffer chose an incredibly weak password: “happiness.” Britney’s gonna be pissed. Read More ›
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MacRumors Hit by Hackers
Those fun-loving pranksters over at 4Chan have been busy today. In addition to (allegedly) getting a crude visual reminder of 9/11 to rise to the top of Google Trends, they managed to take over the live feed for the MacRumors live-blog coverage of today’s Macworld keynote address. After announcing that Steve Jobs had died, they moved on with lightning speed to an endless string of penis jokes (which may have undermined their credibility somewhat). View Image ›
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Celebrity Twitter Hacks
Today is officially “Hack Into A Celebrity’s Twitter” Day. So far Bill O’Reilly, Rick Sanchez, and Britney Spears have been targeted. It’s kind of dumb, and the comments aren’t particularly clever, but overall the hacks have kind of a brain-dead “ha” factor that seems fitting on the first Monday after the holidays. I hope they come up with something good for Shaq. Read More ›
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Virgil Griffith
Griffith — the subject of a profile in this weekend’s NY Times magazine — is the disruptive technologist behind WikiScanner who says that one of his missions in life is “to create minor public-relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike.” “The hacker high life — girls, notoriety, White Russians — can be hard to resist,” writes Virginia Heffernan. “Girls hang on Virgil Griffith. This is no exaggeration. At parties, they cling to the arms of the 25-year-old hacker whose reason for being, he says, is to ‘make the Internet a better and more interesting place.’ ” She’s witnessed the fandom and unusual drink choice first hand, and describes how at a recent tech conference, “Griffith, enjoying a White Russian that I first mistook for chocolate milk, reveled in the attention of his female fans. He smiled broadly. He seemed like a young Henry Kissinger, but sweet, or Arthur Fonzarelli, but not a dropout.” What do girls like more, his hacking skillz or cutey-pie dimples? Read More ›
