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2016-12-22 08:36:49 | Russia Wants Apple to Unlock iPhone belonging to Killer of Russian Ambassador (lien direct) | You might have also seen a viral video of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey that quickly spread through the Internet worldwide.
Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in Ankara on December 19 when the ambassador was giving a speech at an art gallery. The shooter managed to pretend himself as his official bodyguard and later shot to
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2016-12-22 02:08:58 | NIST Calls Development of Quantum-Proof Encryption Algorithms (lien direct) | Quantum Computers – Boon or Bane?
Quantum computers can perform operations much more quickly and efficiently even with the use of less energy than conventional computers, but that's bad news for encryption - a process which scrambles data according to a massively complex mathematical code.
In theory, quantum computers can break almost all the existing encryption algorithms used on the
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2016-12-21 01:50:10 | Google \'Android Things\' - An Operating System for the Internet of Things (lien direct) | Google announced a Developers Preview of "Android Things" - an Android-based operating system platform for smart devices and Internet of Things (IoT) products.
The Android-based Internet of Things OS is designed to make it easier for developers to build a smart appliance since they will be able to work with Android APIs and Google Services they're already familiar with.
As the Developers
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2016-12-21 00:49:31 | Hackers Suspected of Causing Second Power Outage in Ukraine (lien direct) | The same group of hackers that caused the power outage across several regions in Ukraine last Christmas holidays might have once again shut down power supply in northern Ukraine during the weekend.
According to Ukrainian energy provider Ukrenergo, a cyber attack on Kyiv's power grid may have caused the power outages in the country on Saturday, December 17, near midnight.
The blackout
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2016-12-20 11:22:49 | \'MethBot\' Ad Fraud Operators Making $5 Million Revenue Every Day (lien direct) | The biggest advertising fraud ever!
A group of hackers is making between $3 Million to $5 Million per day from United States brands and media companies in the biggest digital ad fraud ever discovered.
Online fraud-prevention firm White Ops uncovered this new Ad fraud campaign, dubbed "Methbot," that automatically generates more than 300 Million fraudulent video ad impressions every day.
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2016-12-20 08:39:51 | Hacker Demonstrates How Easy In-flight Entertainment System Can Be Hacked (lien direct) | Next time when you hear an announcement in the flight, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking…," the chances are that the announcement is coming from a hacker controlling your flight.
Dangerous vulnerabilities in an in-flight entertainment system used by the leading airlines, including Emirates, United, American Airlines, Virgin, and Qatar, could let hackers hijack several
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2016-12-20 00:08:56 | RansomFree Tool Detects Never-Seen-Before Ransomware Before It Encrypts Your Data (lien direct) | Ransomware has risen dramatically since last few years, so rapidly that it might have already hit you or someone you know.
With hundred of thousands of ransomware variants emerging every day, it is quite difficult for traditional signature-based antivirus tools to keep their signature database up-to-date.
So, if signature-based techniques are not enough to detect ransomware infection, then
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2016-12-17 01:03:25 | DNSChanger Malware is Back! Hijacking Routers to Target Every Connected Device (lien direct) | Next time when you see an advertisement of your favorite pair of shoes on any website, even if it is legitimate, just DO NOT CLICK ON IT.
…Because that advertising could infect you in such a way that not just your system, but every device connected to your network would get affected.
A few days ago, we reported about a new exploit kit, dubbed Stegano, that hides malicious code in the pixels
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2016-12-16 09:19:27 | 1-Billion Yahoo Users\' Database Reportedly Sold For $300,000 On Dark Web (lien direct) | Recently Yahoo disclosed a three-year-old massive data breach in its company that exposed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts, which is said to be the largest data breach of any company ever.
The new development in Yahoo!'s 2013 data breach is that the hacker sold its over Billion-user database on the Dark Web last August for $300,000, according to Andrew
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2016-12-16 03:57:54 | New Kickass Torrents Site is Back Online by Original Staffers (lien direct) | KickassTorrents is back from the dead!
Back in July, the world's largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT) with millions of unique daily visitors was shut down by the U.S. authorities following the arrest of its alleged owner Artem Vaulin.
Shortly after the shutdown, a group of devoted original KAT staffers launched the Katcr.co forum in hopes of bringing
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2016-12-16 02:50:11 | Ubuntu\'s Crash Report Tool Allows Remote Code Execution (lien direct) | No software is immune to being Hacked! Not even Linux.
A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in Ubuntu Linux operating system that would allow an attacker to remotely compromise a target computer using a malicious file.
The vulnerability affects all default Ubuntu Linux installations versions 12.10 (Quantal) and later.
Researcher Donncha O'Cearbhaill discovered the
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2016-12-16 01:43:58 | How to Hack Apple Mac Encryption Password in Just 30 Seconds (lien direct) | Macintosh computers are often considered to be safer than those running Windows operating system, but a recently discovered attack technique proves it all wrong.
All an attacker needs is a $300 device to seize full control of your Mac or MacBook.
Swedish hacker and penetration tester Ulf Frisk has developed a new device that can steal the password from virtually any Mac laptop while it is
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2016-12-15 08:41:58 | FBI Most Wanted Fugitive JPMorgan Hacker Arrested in New York (lien direct) | One of the FBI's most wanted hackers who was behind the largest theft of financial data has finally been arrested at the JFK airport in New York.
Joshua Samuel Aaron is accused of being part of a hacking group that attacked several major financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, and according to the officials, which was "the largest theft of user data from a U.S. financial institution
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2016-12-15 02:28:34 | After Failed Auction, Shadow Brokers Opens NSA Hacking Tools for Direct Sales (lien direct) | Remember The Shadow Brokers?
The hacker group that's believed to be behind the high-profile cyber theft of NSA hacking tools and exploits that sparked a larger debate on the Internet concerning abilities of US intelligence agencies and their own security
The group put the stolen cyber weapons on auction but received not much response and gone quiet for some time.
However,
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2016-12-14 23:11:07 | Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach (lien direct) | Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to pay a hefty fine of $1.6 Million for failing to protect account information of 36 Million users, after a massive data breach last year.
Yes, the parent company of Ashley Madison, Ruby Corp. will pay $1.6 Million to settle charges from both Federal Trade
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2016-12-14 21:48:51 | Yahoo Admits 1 Billion Accounts Compromised in Newly Discovered Data Breach (lien direct) | In what believe to be the largest data breach in history, Yahoo is reporting a massive data breach that disclosed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts in August 2013.
…And it's separate from the one disclosed by Yahoo! in September, in which hackers compromised as many as 500 Million user accounts in late 2014.
What's troubling is that the company has not been
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2016-12-14 08:58:24 | Simple Bug allows Hackers to Read all your Private Facebook Messenger Chats (lien direct) | A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in Facebook Messenger that could allow an attacker to read all your private conversation, affecting the privacy of around 1 Billion Messenger users.
Ysrael Gurt, the security researcher at BugSec and Cynet, reported a cross-origin bypass-attack against Facebook Messenger which allows an attacker to access your private messages,
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2016-12-14 04:47:13 | 5-year-old Skype Backdoor Discovered - Mac OS X Users Urged to Update (lien direct) | Those innocent-looking apps in your smartphone can secretly spy on your communications or could allow hackers to do so.
Hard to believe, but it's true.
Recently, Trustwave's SpiderLabs analysts discovered a hidden backdoor in Skype for Apple's macOS and Mac OS X operating systems that could be used to spy on users' communications without their knowledge.
The backdoor
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2016-12-14 04:07:46 | Microsoft releases 12 Security Updates; Including 6 Critical Patches (lien direct) | For the last Patch Tuesday for this year, Microsoft has released 12 security bulletins, half of which are rated 'critical' as they give attackers remote code execution capabilities on the affected computers.
The security bulletins address vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Edge.
The first critical security bulletin, MS16-144, patches a total of 8 security
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2016-12-13 08:10:33 | More Firmware Backdoor Found In Cheap Android Phones (lien direct) | Here's some bad news for Android users again.
Certain low-cost Android smartphones and tablets are shipped with malicious firmware, which covertly gathers data about the infected devices, displays advertisements on top of running applications and downloads unwanted APK files on the victim's devices.
Security researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web have discovered two types of
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2016-12-13 06:24:11 | Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining tool turns Computers into Zcash Mining Machines (lien direct) | Since its launch over a month ago, new virtual currency Zcash (ZEC) has become a significant way for cybercrooks to make money by infecting computers with software mining program.
Launched in late October, Zcash (ZEC) is a new cryptocurrency currency that claims to be more anonymous than Bitcoin, as the sender, recipient and value of transactions can be hidden.
With this premise, Zcash
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2016-12-12 10:36:51 | Europol arrests 34 Teenagers for using DDoS Attack Tools (lien direct) | Europol has announced that the law enforcement agencies from 13 countries around the globe have arrested 34 users of Netspoof DDoS attack tool and interviewed and warned 101 suspects in a global crackdown.
According to the report published on the official website of Europol, law enforcement authorities worldwide have made the arrest between 5 December and 9 December 2016.
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2016-12-12 04:53:24 | Tor Project Releases Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2 (lien direct) | The non-profit organization behind TOR – the largest online anonymity network that allows people to hide their real identity online – has launched an early alpha version of Sandboxed Tor Browser 0.0.2.
Yes, the Tor Project is working on a sandboxed version of the Tor Browser that would isolate the Tor Browser from other processes of the operating system and limit its ability to interact or
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2016-12-12 04:26:23 | Become a Linux Expert - Get this Online 5-Course Training Bundle (lien direct) | Linux is considered as one of the most favorite operating systems for hackers and security researchers. The open source operating system is often used for building technologies as it offers developers much room for modifications.
Linux is used on many hardware platforms, servers, gaming platforms, and much more. So it is essential for anyone, who want to become a Linux pro or seeking a
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2016-12-12 03:53:26 | How to Protect All Your Internet-Connected Home Devices From Hackers (lien direct) | How many Internet-connected devices do you have in your home? I am surrounded by around 25 such devices.
It's not just your PC, smartphone, and tablet that are connected to the Internet. Today our homes are filled with tiny computers embedded in everything from security cameras, TVs and refrigerators to thermostat and door locks.
However, when it comes to security, people generally ignore to
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2016-12-12 03:09:02 | Beware of New Celebrity Sex Tape (Scam) Leaked on Facebook! (lien direct) | If you came across a celebrity sex video on Facebook featuring Jessica Alba or any other celebrity, just avoid clicking it.
Another Facebook scam is circulating across the social networking website that attempts to trick Facebook users into clicking on a link for a celebrity sex tape that instead downloads malware onto their computers.
Once installed, the malware would force web browsers to
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2016-12-10 03:31:25 | President Obama Orders \'Full Review\' of Possible Russian hacking in US Election (lien direct) | In his final month in office, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of pre-election cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations that many believe affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
The United States intelligence agencies have attributed those series of cyber-attacks to Russia that shook the US election season.
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2016-12-10 02:08:10 | Stop Using these 2 Easily Hackable Netgear Router Models - US CERT Warns (lien direct) | Bad news for consumers with Netgear routers: Two popular Netgear routers are vulnerable to a critical security bug that could allow attackers to run malicious code with root privileges. Netgear's R7000 and R6400 routers, running current and latest versions of firmware, are vulnerable to arbitrary command injection attacks, though the number of users affected by the flaw is still unclear. | |||
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2016-12-09 05:20:45 | This Ransomware Unlocks Your Files For Free If You Infect Others (lien direct) | Is your PC infected with Ransomware? Either pay the ransom amount to the attacker or spread the infection further to get the decryption keys.
Yes, this new technique has been employed by cyber criminals with the latest round of ransomware threat, dubbed Popcorn Time.
Initially discovered by MalwareHunterTeam, the new Popcorn Time Ransomware has been designed to give the victim's a criminal
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2016-12-09 04:28:41 | Uber Now Tracks Your Location Even After Your Ride (lien direct) | Uber was in controversies at the mid of this year for monitoring the battery life of its users, as the company believed that its users were more likely to pay a much higher price to hire a cab when their phone's battery is close to dying.
Uber is now tracking you even when your ride is over, and, according to the ride-hailing company, the surveillance will improve its service.
Uber recently
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2016-12-08 10:30:41 | Yahoo Flaw Allowed Hackers to Read Anyone\'s Emails (lien direct) | Yahoo has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Mail service that could have allowed an attacker to spy on any Yahoo user's inbox.
Jouko Pynnönen, a Finnish Security researcher from security firm Klikki Oy, reported a DOM based persistent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) in Yahoo mail, which if exploited, allows an attacker to send emails embedded with malicious code.
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2016-12-08 07:03:02 | Russia proposes 10 Year in Prison Sentence for Hackers and Malware Authors (lien direct) | The Russian government has introduced a draft bill that proposes prison sentences as punishment for hackers and cyber criminals creating malicious software used in targeting critical Russian infrastructure, even if they have no part in actual cyber attacks.
The bill, published on the Russian government's website on Wednesday, proposes amendments to the Russian Criminal Code and Criminal
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2016-12-08 04:44:09 | Turkish Hackers Are Giving Away Prizes For Participating In DDoS Attacks (lien direct) | DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline.
A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a list of predetermined targets.
The points earned can later be redeemed for various online click-fraud and hacking tools.
Dubbed Sath-ı
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2016-12-07 08:20:46 | Hacker who stole Celebrity Emails, Sex Tapes, Movie Scripts Gets 5 Years in Prison (lien direct) | A hacker who was arrested last year for hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal the unreleased movie and television scripts, their private messages, and sex tapes to sell them has finally been sentenced five years in prison.
Alonzo Knowles, a 24-year-old Bahamian man, was convicted by U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Knowles, who maintained a list of
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2016-12-07 08:14:04 | 5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Discovered (lien direct) | A 5-year-old serious privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that affects almost every distro of the Linux operating system, including Redhat, and Ubuntu.
Over a month back, a nine-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability, dubbed "Dirty COW," was discovered in the Linux kernel that affected every distro of the open-source operating system, including Red Hat,
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2016-12-07 00:09:54 | Hacking Millions with Just an Image - Recipe: Pixels, Ads & Exploit Kit (lien direct) | If you have visited any popular mainstream website over the past two months, your computer may have been infected - Thanks to a new exploit kit discovered by security researchers.
Researchers from antivirus provider ESET released a report on Tuesday stating that they have discovered an exploit kit, dubbed Stegano, hiding malicious code in the pixels of banner advertisements that are currently
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2016-12-06 04:38:21 | North Korea\'s Linux-based Red Star OS can be Hacked Remotely with just a Link (lien direct) | North Korea's own homegrown computer operating system, that's supposed to be fully hacker proof and more secure than foreign OS, like Microsoft's Windows, can easily be hacked remotely.
A group of hackers managed to break into Red Star OS - North Korea's government sanctioned Linux-based OS - using just a link.
Red Star OS is North Korea's own homegrown OS that looks remarkably just like
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2016-12-06 01:31:26 | [Video] How to Hack a Credit Card in 6 Seconds, Experts Reveal (lien direct) | As India attempts an upgrade to a cashless society, cyber security experts have raised serious concerns and revealed how to find credit card information – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – in just 6 Seconds.
And what's more interesting? The hack uses nothing more than guesswork by querying multiple e-commerce sites.
In a new research paper entitled "Does The Online Card Payment
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2016-12-05 22:46:19 | DailyMotion Hacked - 85 Million User Accounts Stolen (lien direct) | Another day, another data breach.
This time a popular video sharing platform DailyMotion has allegedly been hacked and tens of millions of users information have been stolen.
Breach notification service LeakedSource announced the data breach on Monday after the company obtained 85.2 Million records from Dailymotion.
According to LeakedSource, the DailyMotion data breach
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2016-12-01 01:51:32 | Rule 41 - FBI Gets Expanded Power to Hack any Computer in the World (lien direct) | Hacking multiple computers across the world just got easier for the United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies from today onwards.
The changes introduced to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by the United States Department of Justice came into effect on Thursday, after an effort to block the changes failed on Wednesday.
The change grants the FBI much greater
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2016-12-01 00:32:38 | UPDATE Firefox and Tor to Patch Critical Zero-day Vulnerability (lien direct) | The critical Firefox vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild to unmask Tor users has been patched with the release of new browser updates.
Both Mozilla and Tor Project has patched the vulnerability that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on Windows operating system via memory corruption vulnerability in Firefox web browser.
Tor Browser Bundle is a repackaged
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2016-11-30 23:34:33 | Password Manager Pro - Easiest Way to Keep Enterprises Secure (lien direct) | Recent corporate breaches have taught us something important - the average enterprise user is spectacularly bad at choosing good passwords.
As modern enterprise is becoming a hybrid organization with infrastructure spread across on-premises data centers as well as in the cloud, security of information, applications, and assets has become a paramount concern.
Cyber security is no longer an
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2016-11-30 08:44:21 | Over 1 Million Google Accounts Hacked by \'Gooligan\' Android Malware (lien direct) | If you own an Android smartphone, Beware! A new Android malware that has already breached more than 1 Million Google accounts is infecting around 13,000 devices every day.
Dubbed Gooligan, the malware roots vulnerable Android devices to steal email addresses and authentication tokens stored on them.
With this information in hands, the attackers are able to hijack your Google account and
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2016-11-30 04:17:57 | Anonymous Hacktivist \'Barrett Brown\' Released From Prison (lien direct) | Barrett Brown, a journalist, formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, finally walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than four years behind bars.
The Dallas-born investigative journalist was arrested in 2012 from his home while he was in the middle of an online chat after posting tweets and YouTube video threatening revenge
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2016-11-30 01:46:45 | Press Shift + F10 during Windows 10 Upgrade to Launch Root CLI & bypass BitLocker (lien direct) | If your computer's security relies on Windows BitLocker Hard Drive Encryption software, then Beware! Because anyone with physical access to your PC can still access your files within few seconds.
All an attacker need to do is hold SHIFT+F10 during Windows 10 update procedure.
Security researcher Sami Laiho discovered this simple method of bypassing BitLocker, wherein an attacker can open a
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2016-11-30 00:49:31 | Firefox Zero-Day Exploit to Unmask Tor Users Released Online (lien direct) | Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to unmask Tor Browser users, similar to what the FBI exploited during an investigation of a child pornography site.
Tor (The Onion Router) is an anonymity software that not only provides a safe heaven to human rights activists, journalists, government officials, but also is a place where drugs, assassins for hire, child
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2016-11-29 01:03:17 | Cyber Attack Knocks Nearly a Million Routers Offline (lien direct) | Mirai Botnet is getting stronger and more notorious each day that passes by. The reason: Insecure Internet-of-things Devices.
Last month, the Mirai botnet knocked the entire Internet offline for a few hours, crippling some of the world's biggest and most popular websites.
Now, more than 900,000 broadband routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany knocked offline over the weekend
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2016-11-28 00:26:26 | San Francisco Metro System Hacked with Ransomware; Resulting in Free Rides (lien direct) | Nothing is immune to being hacked when hackers are motivated.
The same proved by hackers on Friday, when more than 2,000 computer systems at San Francisco's public transit agency were apparently got hacked.
San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency, also known as MUNI, offered free rides on November 26th after MUNI station payment systems and schedule monitors got hacked by ransomware
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2016-11-27 22:55:45 | Hacker who exposed Steubenville Rape Faces longer Prison term than Rapists (lien direct) | Remember Steubenville High School Rape Case?
In 2012, Steubenville (Ohio) high school's football team players gang-raped an unconscious teenage girl from West Virginia and took photographs of the sexual assault.
In December 2012, a member of the hacker collective Anonymous hacked into the Steubenville High School football fan website Roll Red Roll and leaked some evidence of the rape,
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2016-11-26 02:34:11 | Researchers Show How to Steal Tesla Car by Hacking into Owner\'s Smartphone (lien direct) | New technology is always a little scary, so are Smart Cars. From GPS system and satellite radio to wireless locks, steering, brakes, and accelerator, today vehicles are more connected to networks than ever, and so they are more hackable than ever.
It's not new for security researchers to hack connected cars. Previously they had demonstrated how to hijack a car remotely, and how to disable
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