An 11-year-old boy hacked into a mock-up of a Florida state election website to change the voting results in under ten minutes at the world’s largest yearly hacking convention on Friday.
A 16-year-old student has been charged with fourteen felonies after he hacked his school’s computer system to change his grades using a phishing campaign aimed at teachers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has “quietly solved” the theft of data from 168 million people, which was attributed to a 28-year-old hacker.
Adrian Lamo, the hacker who was arrested for hacking into The New York Times and Microsoft and who also turned Chelsea Manning in to the FBI, has been found dead.
The Department of Homeland Security slammed NBC’s evening news broadcast for “actively undermining efforts of DHS” to protect states’ election computers and databases from hackers.
Capitol Hill insiders are abuzz as two congressional committees reportedly possess evidence that Hillary Clinton’s emails were stolen from her private email server by foreign hackers.
Former Speaker of the House and current Democrat minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned House Democrats to change their cellphone numbers after a Russian hacker released members’ personal information on Friday. Pelosi also revealed that she received dozens of “sick” and “obscene” phone calls due to the hack.
The personal cell phone numbers and email addresses of most Democratic members of Congress were released by hacker Guccifer 2.0 on Friday, the most salacious in the batch of documents the hacker retrieved from the server of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Actor-musician Jack Black is “alive and well,” his band Tenacious D wrote in a message on Sunday after a hacker reportedly gained access to the band’s Twitter account and posted a message claiming its frontman had died.
The anonymous source for the “Panama Papers” leak – described by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists as a “whistleblower,” although the Mossack Fonseca law firm of Panama would say “thief” is a better word – has written a lengthy manifesto, reprinted in full by the ICIJ.
The UK Independent reports that “at least three dozen Americans with legal entanglements in their personal histories did business” with Mossack Fonseca, according to the second batch of “Panama Papers” files out this week.
NBC News has its own interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka “Guccifer” — the hacker who raided Hillary Clinton’s henchman Sidney Blumenthal, and who now claims he penetrated her illicit email server stuffed with classified documents.
Twitter showed the hashtag #DropOutHillary top trending on Wednesday afternoon, with over 265,000 tweets and rising, according to the site.
Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, better known as “Guccifer,” was extradited from his native Romania to a detention center in Alexandria, Virginia, last month.
A top FBI official confirmed on Monday that the agency is investigating Hillary Clinton’s home-built, unsecured email system, according to a report by MSNBC’s legal reporter Pete Williams. In a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the
Thousands of people across the Middle East received unsolicited text messages calling for the death of Jews as a result of a 2013 hack of telecommunications firm SMSGlobal, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.
An anonymous hacking group attacked the website of the Egyptian presidency and took it offline for a short time on Thursday, according to a report at Al-Arabiya News.
Symantec reported that most of Wifatch’s code is written in the Perl programming language; once Wifatch attaches to a device, it connects to a peer-to-peer network used to distribute threat updates.
British born Islamic State (IS) terrorists have hacked into the e-mail accounts of government ministers, in a sophisticated spying operation linked to a plot to assassinate politicians and members of the Royal family. IS targeted the accounts of some of
NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have linked a sophisticated hacking scheme targeting Iranian dissidents back to Iran. A report released Thursday by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs describes how the hackers used
With the revelations of data snooping and privacy violations by government agencies, clandestine hacker groups and supposedly trusted telecommunications companies accelerating, a new report suggests Generation Y, 18 to 34 year olds, is starting to have “buyer’s remorse” regarding the amount of social media accounts into which they’ve poured the intimate details of their lives.
The Saudi-owned, London-based Al-Hayat news site was taken over on Monday by hackers that identified themselves as part of a pro-Houthi “Yemen Cyber Army,” in an Arabic message displayed for its readers.
