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The alleged breach was first flagged by the #oRemyy account on Twitter, and was quickly amplified by others, who claimed that accounts were being taken over and credentials changed, so that the legitimate users couldn't recover them. "Yeah it's legit guys. Change your Activision account passwords immediately. Apparently over 500,000 accounts have been breached already and it's still ongoing," one user going by "Okami" tweeted.
Dunkin' Donuts today settled a lawsuit in which it was accused of hushing up the fact hackers siphoned its customers' personal information from its systems in 2015. "Long before the New York Attorney General filed suit in this matter, Dunkin' had voluntarily implemented or enhanced the security measures identified in today's settlement," Dunkin' said in a statement to The Register.
The US government says the Chinese government's hackers are preying on a host of high-profile security holes in enterprise IT equipment to infiltrate Uncle Sam's agencies and American businesses. In a joint statement, the FBI and Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday claimed Beijing's miscreants have exploited or attempted to exploit bugs including those in Microsoft Exchange Server, the F5 Big-IP remote takeover vulnerability, Pulse Secure's VPN's remote code flaw and the Citrix VPN directory traversal hole.
A "Hack-proof" smart padlock with security based on blockchain technology could be defeated by a simple Bluetooth replay attack - or a 1kg lump hammer. Its unique selling point is that the padlock can be locked and unlocked using an app that transmits over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, rather than a physical key or combination lock.
Tehran on Friday hit back at allegations by Microsoft that Iran based hackers had targeted the US presidential campaigns, declaring it does not care about the election's outcome. Microsoft claimed that it has thwarted cyber attacks by hackers from China, Russia and Iran who have been targeting staff from the campaigns of President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden, ahead of the November vote.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet.
This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Cyber Command. Working with U.S. government partners, CISA, Treasury, FBI, and USCYBERCOM identified malware and indicators of compromise used by the North Korean government in an automated teller machine cash-out scheme - referred to by the U.S. Government as "FASTCash 2.0: North Korea's BeagleBoyz Robbing Banks."
A hack-for-hire group has been targeting organizations in the financial sector since 2012, for cyber-espionage purposes, Kaspersky's security researchers reveal. Tracking the hacking group since 2018, Kaspersky was able to link its activity to the Powersing, Evilnum and Janicab malware families, thus suggesting that the threat actor might have been active since at least 2012, yet it continues to develop its toolset.
Abstract: Four hack-and-leak operations in U.S. politics between 2016 and 2019, publicly attributed to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, should be seen as the "Simulation of scandal" - deliberate attempts to direct moral judgement against their target. Although "Hacking" tools enable easy access to secret information, they are a double-edged sword, as their discovery means the scandal becomes about the hack itself, not about the hacked information.