Neowin News Feed for: Hacker

YouTuber breaks BitLocker encryption in less than a minute using $5 Raspberry Pi Pico

Mehrotra A — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:06:01 +0000

Microsoft's BitLocker encryption offers a way for users to secure their data from prying eyes. However, it has a major flaw that can allow a hacker to decrypt data within minutes with basic tools. Read more...

Microsoft warns Teams users of new Russian-backed phishing attack

Omer Dursun — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 09:38:01 +0000

Microsoft discovers a phishing attack by a Russian-backed hacker group. They are using compromised Microsoft 365 accounts to pose as tech support in Teams. The group targets govts, NGOs, and more. Read more...

Nintendo hacker Bowser released from prison, will pay off fine for the rest of his life

Usama Jawad — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:04:01 +0000

Hacker Gary Bowser from the infamous Team-Xecuter Nintendo piracy group has been released early from prison. However, he will likely be paying off fines to Nintendo for the rest of his life. Read more...

A Steam profile helped the US government arrest an alleged leaker of classified documents

John Callaham — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:10:01 +0000

21-year old Jack Teixeira was arrested this week and may be charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking hundreds of US classified documents to his friends. Read more...

Hackers are exploiting Microsoft's MFA to gain access to cloud services and networks

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:12:01 +0000

Cyber criminals are exploiting the self-enrollment process for Microsoft Azure Active Directory and other platforms to takeover Microsoft 365 and other cloud servers and networks. Read more...

Arkose Labs' security report shows entry level fraudsters make $20k a month

Christopher White — Wed, 18 May 2022 09:00:02 +0000

Want to make between $20k and $600k a month? Apparently you can if you don't mind breaking international law and risking heavy jail time. Learn how to protect yourself against cybersecurity threats. Read more...

Suspected Lapsus$ hackers rounded up by City of London Police

Paul Hill — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:00:02 +0000

A prominent member of the Lapsus$ hacking group has supposedly been identified as a 16-year-old boy; seven of the group's members have also been arrested by the City of London Police. Read more...

Lapsus$ hackers threatening to release Vodafone's proprietary code

Paul Hill — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:30:01 +0000

The hacking group Lapsus$ is threatening to dump Vodafone source code online in a couple of days. Vodafone has said that it's aware of the threat from the group and that it's investigating. Read more...

Hacker who commanded a 100,000+ strong bot army taken down by Ukrainian cops

Sayan Sen — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:04:01 +0000

A Ukraine-based hacker who created and coordinated various cyberattacks like DDoS, spamming, or brute-forcing, using his 100,000+ bots has been arrested today by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). Read more...

Twitch suffers massive data breach, sensitive details leaked

Usama Jawad — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:16:01 +0000

Twitch has reportedly been the target of a massive data breach. The publicly leaked data contains encrypted credentials, source code for some software, and payout details related to popular streamers. Read more...

[Update] President Trump's Twitter password was 'maga2020!', says researcher

Paul Hill — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:06:02 +0000

A Dutch hacker has managed to log onto President Trump's Twitter account after guessing his password seven times. He reported the breach directly to Trump so he can remedy the problem. Read more...

Microsoft reports increased cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections

Usama Jawad — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 07:10:02 +0000

Microsoft has reported increased activity from hacking groups based in Russia, China, and Iran targeting the U.S. presidential elections. Both Biden and Trump campaigns have been attacked. Read more...

Hacker challenges Facebook by claiming he will delete Zuckerberg's account on Sunday [Update]

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:22:01 +0000

A Taiwanese hacker has dared Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg by using the young entrepreneur's own social network to claim that he will broadcast himself deleting Zuckerberg's account on Sunday. Read more...

Suspected hacker in Chinese hotel group's data theft is taken into custody

Ruel Revales — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:36:01 +0000

A hacker selling 141.5GB of customer data from Huazhu Hotels Group on the dark web was arrested by Chinese police. He also attempted to blackmail the hotel chain to pay for its own data. Read more...

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News Staff — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:00:02 +0000

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News Staff — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:00:01 +0000

Microsoft introduces AI solution to detect mobile bank fraud in less than two seconds

Hamza Jawad — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:52:01 +0000

In a new solution guide, Microsoft has explained how to create an Azure-based solution to detect mobile bank fraud within two seconds, helping mitigate fraudulent transactions and SIM swap attacks. Read more...

Apple's network reportedly hacked by Melbourne teen, sensitive user data seized

Sharath Ravishankar — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:34:01 +0000

A teenager from Melbourne managed to hack into Apple's network and access user accounts and 90GB of secure files, until the Cupertino-based giant contacted the FBI about this data breach. Read more...

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News Staff — Wed, 23 May 2018 18:00:02 +0000

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News Staff — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:00:02 +0000

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News Staff — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 15:00:01 +0000

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News Staff — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:00:01 +0000

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Lack of cyber security professionals behind recent hacker attacks

Gabriel Nunes — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 16:44:01 +0000

Cyber crimes have made several headlines in 2017, rising to the top as the most feared crime in the United States. One of the main reasons may be the lack of cyber security professionals. Read more...

Gallup: Cybercrime is the most feared crime in the U.S.

Paul Hill — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:00:01 +0000

The results are in, folks! It turns out that the crime most people worry about is being the target of a cybercrime, whether it be personal or financial information that they lose to a hacker. Read more...

Microsoft slow to disclose extent of 2013 database hack

John Keefer — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:00:01 +0000

An internal bug-tracking database was compromised by a sophisticated hacking group, but the company was slow in disclosing to the public the extent of the potential damage, five ex-employees said. Read more...

Hackers steal email addresses, phone numbers of "high-profile" accounts from Instagram

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 09:08:01 +0000

The Facebook-owned service has said in a statement that an API bug allowed attackers to procure personal information of several high-profile verified accounts, all of whom have been notified. Read more...

TheDarkOverlord strikes again, releases unaired ABC show

Paul Hill — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 21:12:02 +0000

The hacking entity, TheDarkOverlord, has leaked its second TV series. This time it was ABC's Steve Harvey's Funderdome episodes 1-8. In April, it leaked season five of Orange is the New Black. Read more...

Over 8,000 bugs found in pacemaker codes, leaving them vulnerable to hackers

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Tue, 30 May 2017 12:18:01 +0000

Research conducted by cyber security firm WhiteScope, has found the pacemaker programmers from four different major manufacturers are vulnerable to 8,000 different bugs that hackers could exploit. Read more...

Hacker releases episodes of "Orange Is the New Black" after failing to receive ransom

Shreyas Gandhe — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:46:01 +0000

A hacker going by the name "The Dark Overlord" has released episodes from the upcoming season of "Orange Is the New Black" after his ransom demand on Twitter was ignored by Netflix. Read more...

Smartphone sensors can reveal your PIN and password, according to study

Justin Luna — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 13:58:01 +0000

A new study has found that sensors found on smartphones can be exploited to reveal people's PIN and passwords. While some sensors ask users' permission, others don't, which can be used for snooping. Read more...

US Department of Justice going after four people involved in the massive Yahoo data breaches

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:24:01 +0000

The DoJ is looking to indict four people who were allegedly involved in at least one of the attacks that left hundreds of millions of Yahoo user accounts exposed. Three of them are living in Russia. Read more...

YouPorn joins HackerOne, offers up to $25,000 for finding the biggest bugs

Michael Firth — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:48:01 +0000

Porn peddling website YouPorn has joined forces with HackerOne to help the firm identify software vulnerabilities on its platform, with a maximum reward of $25,000 for the most serious weaknesses. Read more...

Google is warning some high-profile users were target of state-sponsored hacking attack

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:38:01 +0000

The target list includes journalists from the New York Times, GQ, Politco and other publications but also diplomats, professors and security researchers. The attacks took place over the last month. Read more...

Hacker publicly releases 'Mirai' code, which was responsible for the largest DDoS attack

Justin Luna — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:20:01 +0000

The source code for what is known today for launching the biggest DDoS attack has been publicly released. The disclosure spread fear among website owners, as anyone could be the next victim. Read more...

Hacker sentenced to 20 years in prison for assisting terror group ISIL

Paul Hill — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:06:01 +0000

The United States has, for the first time, sentenced a terrorist-related hacker for stealing information about 1,300 US military personnel. Ardit Ferizi, has been handed a 20-year sentence. Read more...

Hacker finds security hole in Vine that allowed him to download the entire source code

Steven Johns — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:18:01 +0000

The Vine team at Twitter had a domain that allowed anybody - without authentication - to download their images for the Vine webapp. The vulnerability has since been fixed. Read more...

Myspace confirms data breach, says they've taken 'significant steps' to improve security

Jack Wilkinson — Tue, 31 May 2016 21:28:01 +0000

After it emerged that Myspace was the subject of a data leak, involving over 427 million passwords, the company has now confirmed that they were the subject of a data breach back in 2013. Read more...

Google, Mail.ru and Yahoo claim that more than 98% of the leaked credentials were bogus

Usama Jawad — Sat, 07 May 2016 10:52:01 +0000

Various email providers who were allegedly affected by a data breach that was supposed to have exposed over 272 million account credentials now claim that over 98% of these were bogus. Read more...

'Phantom Squad' threatens Xbox Live and PSN outages over Christmas

News Staff — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:48:01 +0000

A newly-formed hacking group has claimed that they will attempt to take down both Xbox Live and PSN over the coming weeks, to bring the lack of cyber-security to the attention of the public. Read more...

Coder was 'tempted to clean up Bieber's channel' after discovering a security flaw in YouTube

Usama Jawad — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:10:01 +0000

A Russian coder recently found a vulnerability in YouTube which allowed him to delete any video on the service, he also said that he was "tempted to clean up Bieber's channel" following its discovery. Read more...