Last week, Marc and Lauren Gilbert began hearing adult voices coming from their child’s bedroom. As the couple moved closer to the room, they could hear explicit language and a foreign accent speaking to their daughter, Allyson while she was sleeping. The voice called their daughter a “fucking moron” and said, “wake up you little slut”.
With so much of our private information online, and with more and more of our personal devices connected to the net, the likelihood of our being hacked increases on an almost daily basis. And with that in mind, this infographic hits us with a big truth stick. You need to know just how hackable your life really is.
Accused of hacking on “a global scale,” China is set to embark on its first ever digital war games. Washington and the Pentagon have been accusing the country of engaging in cyber hacking attacks on the United States Military.
The latest and most prominent victim of hacking was the Associated Press’ Twitter handle. The handle was used to publish a tweet that falsely reported a bomb explosion in the White House, which injured Barack Obama. This infographic provides you with all the information you need to avoid becoming a victim of cybercrime.
Android phone users who have the Viber app have been issued warnings by security firms that there may be a bug in the popular chat application that allows hackers to bypass screen locks and take control of the phone. So how many people are at risk? 50 million, give or take.
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When Ice Cream Sandwich was rolled out by Google for Android smart devices, engineers baked a data scrambling system into the operating system, which made it a nightmare for law enforcement and forensic workers to unscramble the devices, according to the Erlangen’s Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) team. Of course, the data scrambling system makes it significantly harder […]
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Ladies beware, Karen “Gary” Kazaryan is blackmailing over 350 woman after hacking into their Facebook, Skype and email accounts where he finds their nude or semi nude pictures, and uses them against them. After illegaly obtaining the pictures from their personal accounts, he contacts them and forces the women to undress for him via webcam, or […]
Two members of the hacking group Anonymous were jailed yesterday for carrying out cyber attacks on several major websites. They were found guilty of causing “unprecedented harm” to Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.
Reddit co-founder and RSS feed co-developer, Aaron Swartz, has died on Friday in his New York flat at age 26. According to his uncle and an attorney, the computer activist and programmer took his own life.
Bradley Manning is considered to be a hero by many, and a villain by others. He was the man responsible for leaking classified material he had obtained from US databases to WikiLeaks. Click through to read about the man that gave him up.
It’s not often that the South African government faces attacks from hackers. Sure, Anonymous has its fair share of information it’s retrieved over time, but this wasn’t the work of Anonymous.
And you people wonder why they tried to switch the internet off. Khosrow Zarefarid, an Iranian software manager, warned Iran’s banks’ CEOs of a security flaw in the banking system. When nobody responded, Khosrow hacked 3 million accounts across 22 banks, then dropped these details — including card numbers and PINs — on his blog.
Members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous have denied that they’re planning an attack on Facebook, in spite of a video claiming to speak for the group that has declared that the social network will be brought down on January 28th. This would be the second fake Anonymous threat in some months.
Hacker group, Anonymous, evidently not content with taking down three major corporations and the US Department of Justice’s websites, are continuing their MegaUpload revenge spree, having gained access to CBS.com and deleting every file on the server, while keeping Universal Music inoperative with sustained denial-of-service attacks.
Yesterday the popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload was taken down by the US government. In response, hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous took down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group.
Apple recently showed a St. Louis, USA-based app developer a red card, giving him a one year ban from their App Development Programme, all because he tried to prove a point.
Sesame Street had its YouTube channel hacked yesterday. For about 30 minutes, videos of Kermit the frog and Big Bird were replaced with hardcore porn movies. Their slogan was also changed to: “Its where porn lives.” As funny as the hackers must have thought this joke was, one has to wonder about the kind of people that would deliberately expose kids to content like that.
Banksy’s put up some new art on his site because all the other well-known people were speaking out about the NewsCorp. hacking scandal, and Banksy didn’t want to be left behind. Which is nice! Because honestly I’d almost forgotten about Murdoch. Way to be relevant, Banksy.
Speaking at the Black Hat hacker’s conference in Vegas yesterday, former director of the CIA’s counterterrorism center Cofer Black voiced concerns about a future “code war” where hackers tamper with the technology that runs our day-to-day interactions. Then a fire alarm accidentally tripped, which was nice and thematic.
This photoshopped poster appeared on the “home page” of the “ANCYL”, “hours ago”. All of this is in quotation marks because apparently just about anything can happen with https://ancyl.org.za, which is currently enjoying an extended period of downtime. As Dumb & Dumber is the official choice of 2oceansVibe as Greatest Film of All Time, we […]
Rupert Murdoch, his son, James, and former News Of The World Editor, Rebekah Brooks, are set to face a grilling by the British Parliament’s Culture Committee this afternoon. And it would be advisable for you to tune in, because you might be a witness to the end of Rupert Murdoch, and his de facto control over the greater British Media – a position that he has held for the last 30 years.
The ANCYL’s website has been suffering a plethora of minor hack attacks over the course of the last 24 hours – and by “hack attack” we don’t mean pithy insults by liberal journalists. Yesterday evening the landing page of ancyl.org.za looked like this:
A Russian man has just been sentenced for hacking into one of the video billboards around Moscow and looping a porn video over it. The best part of all is that someone managed to capture a video of the event. You know you want to see it.
We reported earlier that the Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village website had been subject to a hack by a member of the XtremeRoot.net educational hacking site, who went by the name of Legacy123. Legacy123’s hack has since been hacked, by someone using the cypher K141, and they’re not friendly.
The Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village’s website was hacked this morning by someone using the cypher “Legacy123”. Legacy left a cheery little Christmas note for the Cape Quarter Website admins, and a link to an offensive security hacking forum, xtremeroot.net. The Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village is the home of 2oceansvibe Radio’s studios.
Either Yolandi and Ninja are writing a Die Antwoord-esque love letter to a friend named Dirk, or their website has been hacked. Lines of text stating, “Dirk F*cks Whores” cover the screen, and the source points to a hacker named “poesgesig”. Really? You hacked Die Antwoord’s website and you couldn’t post the eff word in it’s entirety?