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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    The story behind the teen hacking of Nvidia, Rockstar, and Uber

    The story behind the teen hacking of Nvidia, Rockstar, and Uber At 21:00 on 22 September last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other side...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    How hackers are making AI models bad at math

    How hackers are making AI models bad at math Kennedy Mays has just tricked a large language model. It took some coaxing, but she managed to convince an algorithm to say 9 + 10 = 21. “It was a back-and-forth conversation,” said the 21-year-old student from Savannah, Georgia. [Bloomberg]
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Microsoft among targets in US investigation into government email hacking

    Microsoft among targets in US investigation into government email hacking A US cybersecurity advisory panel will investigate risks in cloud computing, including Microsoft Corp.’s role in a recent breach of government officials’ email accounts by suspected Chinese hackers, according to two...
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  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    MOVEit hacking sparks fears of major cyberattacks

    MOVEit hacking sparks fears of major cyberattacks Cybersecurity experts are bracing for a potential wave of extortion demands after a vulnerability was discovered in encrypted file-sharing software, a flaw that hackers have already used to target a string of high-profile victims, including...
  6. Hanno Labuschagne

    Chinese hackers breached US Navy networks via home Wi-Fi routers

    Chinese hackers breached US Navy networks via home Wi-Fi routers An alleged campaign by Chinese state-sponsored hackers on targets in the US and Guam has raised fears that Beijing is preparing to disrupt communications in the Pacific in the event of a conflict. The hacking campaign was first...
  7. Hanno Labuschagne

    Massive Twitter hacking carried out with fraudulent SIM swaps

    Massive Twitter hacking carried out with fraudulent SIM swaps A British man has admitted to his involvement in one of the most high-profile social media hacks, a plot that included the hijacking of top US political and business leaders’ Twitter accounts. Joseph James O’Connor pleaded guilty in...
  8. Hanno Labuschagne

    Customer names and partial credit card details exposed in Western Digital hacking incident

    Customer names and partial credit card details exposed in Western Digital hacking incident Western Digital Corp. said hackers got access to an internal database for its online store which contained personal information such as names, addresses and partial credit card details of customers. The...
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    Gadgetsworld.com - they hack you when you make an internet payment

    Hi All Please be careful as you get an email from [email protected] saying you have won and just complete a survey. The moment you enter your banking details you get hacked and whacked by Gadgetsworld.com. They took and estimated 20 USD from my bank account. I was in this screen which...
  10. Hanno Labuschagne

    US wants hardware and software manufacturers held responsible for cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities

    US wants hardware and software manufacturers held responsible for cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities The Biden administration is set to release an aggressive new national cybersecurity strategy on Thursday that seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers...
  11. Hanno Labuschagne

    2022 could be record year for crypto hackers

    2022 could be record year for crypto hackers Cryptocurrencies may have crashed this year but they remain a digital cash-machine for one potent constituency: hackers. At least $718 million has been stolen so far in October alone, taking the gross tally for the year past $3 billion (R54.9...
  12. Hanno Labuschagne

    Teenager suspected to be behind Uber hack charged

    Teenager suspected to be behind Uber hack charged A 17-year-old teenager in England was charged with computer misuse and breaches of bail, according to a statement from City of London Police. The unidentified suspect was apprehended in Oxfordshire, southeast England, Thursday on suspicion of...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Uber says Lapsus$ is behind hacking of internal systems

    Uber says Lapsus$ is behind hacking of internal systems Uber Technologies Inc. said the hacker responsible for a data breach reported last week is affiliated with a notorious extortion group named Lapsus$, which also targeted technology companies including Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc...
  14. Hanno Labuschagne

    Uber probing suspected hack of internal systems

    Uber probing suspected hack of internal systems Uber Technologies Inc. has shut down internal Slack messaging as it investigates a cybersecurity breach by a hacker claiming to have accessed the company’s data. Employees on Thursday received a Slack message from an unknown person claiming “I am...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Cisco employee's compromised Google account lets hacker into company's network

    Cisco employee's compromised Google account lets hacker into company's network Cisco Systems Inc. said it was the victim of a cyberattack in which a hacker repeatedly attempted to gain access to the Silicon Valley firm’s corporate network. Cisco said it became aware of a potential compromise...
  16. Hanno Labuschagne

    UK emergency services system taken down by hackers

    UK emergency services system taken down by hackers A major cyber attack is delaying response times on the NHS 111 telephone service in the UK that’s used for medical emergencies, the Telegraph reported. The target of the breach was Advanced, which is owned by private equity companies. It...
  17. Hanno Labuschagne

    US court system suffered big hack in 2020

    US court system suffered big hack in 2020 Three hostile foreign actors breached the federal courts document management system via “an incredibly significant and sophisticated” cyberattack more than 18 months ago, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said on Thursday. Representative...
  18. Hanno Labuschagne

    Bing and Cortana source code stolen in latest Microsoft hack

    Bing and Cortana source code stolen in latest Microsoft hack Microsoft Corp. said that the hacker group Lapsus$ gained “limited access” to its systems, following a claim by the group that it obtained source code for the Bing search engine and Cortana voice assistant. The software giant had...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    TransUnion staring down R10-million fine over data breach

    TransUnion staring down R10-million fine over data breach Credit bureau TransUnion could be slapped with a R10-million fine after it suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of millions of South Africans, the Information Regulator of South Africa has said. The company...
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    It looks like Russia is targeting open routers....

    Hi all, So, it appears that Russia (or maybe just some script kiddies) are targeting broadband routers. Got a call from a colleague that his home internet is broken and asked for some help. He kept on getting certificate errors, and that pointed me to A DNS issue. Looking at his router his...
  21. Hanno Labuschagne

    US companies prepare for cyberattacks from Russia

    US companies prepare for cyberattacks from Russia A swath of major American businesses — from major banks to utility companies — is preparing for possible cyberattacks against their computer networks as Russia on Thursday threatened “consequences” for nations that interfere with its invasion of...
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