Tag Archives: Hacked
Do You Trust Facebook?
It looks like Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not safe on his own site. Yesterday, his Facebook page was attacked and many users are now weary of the safety of their information on FB. I am beginning to wonder if Facebook will start to lose its stamina because of all the security issues that [...]
Full StoryFacebook Users Outraged or Just Stuck?
On Thursday, Facebook experienced an outage for 2 ½ hours due to a glitch in the social media network’s database software. There were messages flying around the social network that the site was compromised by a group of hackers. The site was not hacked in anyway shape or form. Facebook users were outraged yesterday because [...]
Full StoryTwitter Users Change Your Password Now!
Twitter once again has made news, but not good news. The microblogging site has asked a large number of users to reset their passwords due to unusual activity relating to a large increase in followers on certain accounts. This is becoming far too common for Twitter and users are ready to walk very soon, unless [...]
Full StoryComcast Gone Wild!
According to Comcast it was a mistake in their test of the Emergency Alert System. During an early morning broadcast of Good Friday Mass at the Vatican, something went wrong and a 30-second ad of “Girls Gone Wild” appeared. It seems to be more than a glitch, but maybe someone hacked into the system and [...]
Full StoryPHPBB Bulletin Board Hacked
The popular free bulletin board software site phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen. The hacker who broke in then posted the account info and passwords online for the world to see. InformationWeek analyzed the hacked password list and found a number of interesting trends in the data, [...]
Full StorySarah Palin Hacked!
Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account was Hacked on Tuesday by an activist group known as ‘anonymous’, according to a Web site that publishes leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct. Anonymous gained access to Palin’s Yahoo e-mail address on Tuesday evening and gave the information to Wikileaks, according to the Web site. Data shared included [...]
Full StoryHomeland Security Hacked
This has to be the most embarrassing for the government. If a hacker can break down the walls of our Homeland Security, than how exposed are we to other threats? President would you like to answer that one? A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about [...]
Full StoryHow Strong is Your Password?
You may think your password will never be hacked, but how sure are you? Do you use a password such as your date of birth, phone number, street address or initials? You may be in for a surprise as hacking passwords has become easier to obtain. It’s important to have a password that is at [...]
Full StoryHackers Jailbreak the iPhone 3G
Not even 2 weeks and Apple’s new iPhone has been already hacked. An international team of programmers announced on Saturday that the device had been “pwned” — hacker jargon for “controlled” or “compromised.” This organized group, which calls itself the “iPhone-dev team,” played an important role in the worldwide dissemination of the original iPhone, releasing [...]
Full StoryI Was Hacked!
How many times have you seen a post with the title “I Was Hacked” in a forum or social network? I have seen it so many times, and I always come up with the same question, “Why would they hack your site?” I see no monetary value that a hacker could receive from many of [...]
Full StoryICANN and IANA Hacked
The official domains of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority were hijacked earlier today, by the NetDevilz Turkish hacking group which also hijacked Photobucket’s domain on the 18th of June. This is pretty scary considering who and what these two companies do for business. This [...]
Full StoryComcast not so Comcastic!
Comcast’s web site was hacked by “elul21 coll1er seven“. The hacker or hackers, apparently changed the sites DNS servers at Network Solutions so that the traffic would re-direct to another page located in Germany according to Comcast. I find this amusing as this is the largest Internet Service Provider in the United States. How can [...]
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