Worrying news has revealed that hundreds of thousands of home routers have been take over by hackers. The total number of routers over the planet which are said to have been attacked runs to over 300,000. This issue has come about become of a loophole in their core software which the hackers have taken advantage of. The huge network of hacker routers was discovered by...
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Famous jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, is now working for Facebook. At 21 years old, Hotz is said to be possibly working on a secret iPad Facebook app. The news of GeoHotz’s new job started when Jonah Hill, a member of the Apple jailbreak team Chronic-Dev, said that Hotz backed out of a hacking challenge between the two. Hotz confirmed the rumors on...
This year has seen the rise of hackers in the public eye, groups such as Anonymous and Lulz Security (Lulzsec) have breached the security of some of the biggest brands on the planet. Yesterday, Lulzsec announced their retirement from hacking, but encouraged their fans and other groups to continue their work. We have created an info graphic, entitled ‘Hack Attack’ to...
After 50 days of chaos filled hacking, the security group Luzsec have announced they are to disband, possibly due to the FBI gaining details of the six members of the group. Lulz Security, or Lulzsec for short, announced their retirement from hacking after several high profile attacks including incursions on Sony, Nintendo, PBS and Codemasters over the past month and a...
The group of hackers, known as Lulzsec, has claimed responsibility of a fresh hack of SonyPictures.com. The group has recently been in the news for hacking the PBS website and posting news that Tupac Shaker was alive and well. According to the group, gaining access to the site and over one million user accounts was alarmingly easy. How they did it The group reported their...