Hackers

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Australian Hackers Made Lime Scooters Sex Talk Riders

B. Simmons April 24, 2019

“Oh baby oh baby oh baby” Roughly 8 Lime scooters in Brisbane, Australia have been reported as hacked. The hackers, rather than do anything malicious, hacked the voice boxes to replace their normal lines...

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VFEmail’s Servers Wiped In Hack

B. Simmons February 13, 2019

You might just be kissing that data goodbye. Wisconsin-based email provider VFEmail has been providing its service t users since 2001. But a catastrophic hack they experienced this week has left them in an...

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California Bans Default Passwords For Internet And Bluetooth Devices

B. Simmons October 7, 2018

Swordfish. In just two years, every internet-connected device produced or sold in California will have to come with a unique password. The Information Privacy: Connected Devices bill, in essence, bans the use of hard-coded...

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Video Games

Nintendo Switch Online Hacked For More NES Games

B. Simmons September 20, 2018

Oh, what a surprise. It seems that hackers have already found a way to hack and add games to the Nintendo Switch Online NES library. And it’s apparently easy enough to do that, aside...

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Ticketfly Slowly Coming Back Online After Hack

B. Simmons June 2, 2018

“We won’t be intimidated by criminal threats” There’s been a lot of hacking going around recently. But in Ticketfly’s case, it came with a healthy dose of blackmail. On Thursday, the ticket company was...

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North Korea Exploits Adobe Flash Flaw

B. Simmons February 5, 2018

Soon enough, they’ll be enjoying Newgrounds. It seems Nort Korean hackers haven’t been resting on their laurels. They’ve found, and exploited, a flaw in Adobe Flash Player that allows them to steal files from...

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Hackers Rob Bitcoin Mining Site to the Tune of $70 Million

B. Simmons December 8, 2017

Bitcoin heists are less entertaining than actual bank heists. It hasn’t been a good week for Bitcoin. First, Steam stops accepting it as a viable payment option. Then, hackers rob NiceHash, a Bitcoin mining...

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Stop the Ransoming of your Apple Device

B. Simmons September 22, 2017

As much as I’d like to say it, the answer isn’t “buy an Android”. Hackers are using Apple’s “Find My” service to hold people’s devices at ransom. Allegedly, they’re running rampant. And two-factor identification...

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Video Games

Mobile Developer Gumi Gets Hacked

B. Simmons September 22, 2017

Scuttled their games for nearly a day. Gumi, the company behind games such as Brave Frontier and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius was hacked yesterday. Hackers took control of their site, and left the following...

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Equifax Loses the Data of 143 Million American in Cyberattack

B. Simmons September 8, 2017

Chances are, you’re affected. It seems the week is just disaster prone. On the west coast, everything’s on fire. On the East Coast, a hurricane is terrorizing the countryside. And all over, people are...