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According to a report on the portal Independent, an online hacking security agency claims to have “hijacked” multiple Twitter accounts to prove their point how regarding online security issues. A number of celebrities woke up to the message: “This account has been temporarily hijacked by Insinia Security,” that appeared on the Twitter accounts including Eamonn […]
If you use this extension for the Chrome browser, it is recommended to uninstall it immediately Ethical hacking experts report that the official Chrome extension for the MEGA cloud storage service would have been compromised and replaced by a malicious version that can steal users’ credentials for popular websites like Amazon, Microsoft, Github and Google, as well […]
News of the event was posted on Twitter by vigilante hacker, “The Jester,” who has in the past increased fame by hacking jihadist websites, and who in October 2016 destroyed the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the message, “Stop attacking Americans.” “A god amongst us has hijacked 6400kHz (North Korean station) […]
CAUTIOUS COMPUTER USERS put a piece of tape over their webcam. Truly paranoid ones worry about their devices’ microphones—some even crack open their computers and phones to disable or remove those audio components so they can’t be hijacked by hackers. Now one group of Israeli researchers has taken that game of spy-versus-spy paranoia a step […]
The domain name’s new owners want $2.5 million to give it back. In common with many other vendors, TP-Link, one of the world’s biggest sellers of Wi-Fi access points and home routers, has a domain name that owners of the hardware can use to quickly get to their router’s configuration page. Unlike most other vendors, however, […]
If it can happen to her, chances are it can happen to lots of people. In a scenario that’s growing increasingly common, the chief technologist of the US Federal Trade Commission recently lost control of her smartphone after someone posing as her walked into a mobile phone store and hijacked her number. Details of the incident […]