hackers
Old Watergate Journalist Latest Old Person To Get His Email Hacked
Ken Layne · 05/15/13 11:15AMCarl Bernstein, best known as Dustin Hoffman in the 1970s Watergate thriller All the President's Men, is the latest political/media victim of a hacker known only as Guccifer. Bernstein got his email hacked by the mystery prankster, and now joins an exclusive list of old "e-victims" including George W. Bush and Sex and the City author Candice Bushnell.
Hacked AP Twitter Account Tweets of 'Explosions in the White House'
Cord Jefferson · 04/23/13 12:26PMHow You Can Use an Android Phone to Hijack a Plane from the Ground
Max Read · 04/11/13 08:21AMIf you've ever wanted to hijack a plane—but been prevented by your crippling fear of flying—you can now do it from the ground! All you need is an Android phone, a radio transmitter, flight management software, and some basic hacking skills, and you can control an entire passenger jet from the comfort of your living room. Not that you, uh, should! But you could.
"The Best Fucking Thing That Could Possibly Happen": Hacker Convict Weev Bids Farewell to Freedom
Adrian Chen · 03/22/13 10:40AM"America is in a cultural decline," the internet troll and 27-year-old hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer said into a microphone on Monday morning outside Newark's Martin Luther King Courthouse. Bearded, in a black hoodie with pockets that bulged with his omnipresent 3G-enabled tablet computer and a neckerchief, the stocky Auernheimer was dressed for hurling chunks of sidewalk through storefronts in a European street protest. He was speaking to a pack of cameras in the shadow of the enormous High Modernist bust of Lady Justice that dominates the plaza. "In my country there's a problem and that problem is the Feds. They take everybody's freedom and they never give it back."
'Skulls on Screens' at Korean Banks, Broadcasters Following Massive, Malicious Viral Attack
Max Read · 03/20/13 07:14AMSouth Korea's three main broadcasters and two of its major banks were paralyzed on Wednesday by a massive outbreak of malicious code that crashed and displayed "skulls" on some computers, thought by many to be a retaliatory cyberattack from North Korea. The television channels KBS, MBC, YTN and the banks Nonghyup and Shinhan Bank had their computer systems simultaneously shut down at around 2 p.m., with employees unable to boot up their computers or access the internet; by 4 p.m., the systems had been restored. Media outlets were able to continue broadcasting, but Shinhan found that its internet banking and some ATMs were rendered inoperable. The South Korean government has launched an investigation and upgraded its information operations condition; North Korea has been threatening to launch a cyberattack since last week, when it accused the U.S. and South Korea of hacking computers in Pyongyang. The hack is believed to have come through services provided by LG. [BBC | Korea Herald | AJE]
Wish George W. Bush a Happy Iraq War Day: Here is His Private Email Address
John Cook · 03/19/13 04:30PMAs we mentioned earlier, a hacker calling himself (or herself) Guccifer has penetrated the electronic worlds of George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, and a number of other political figures. Screengrabs of various email conversations that Bush, Clinton, and others have participated in have been floating around the internet. And it has come to our attention on this, the day of the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on the orders of George W. Bush, that one of those screengrabs credibly displays Bush's private email address. It is: gwb@ogwb.org. Please let him know that you're thinking of him today.
Who Is Guccifer, the Hacker Who's Terrorizing Politicos?
Adrian Chen · 03/19/13 02:00PMReuters Social Media Editor Accused of Helping Anonymous Has Long, Strange Internet Past
Adrian Chen · 03/15/13 07:13PMNews that Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys had been indicted for allegedly conspiring with Anonymous shocked his colleagues in online media. Keys has always seemed like a normal guy who constantly tweets news links. But in the wake of his indictment, details about his online past have emerged that make his entanglement with Anonymous seem less out of character.
Cord Jefferson · 03/12/13 01:29PM
Obama, Clinton, Biden, Jay-Z Doxxed: 'Hackers' Snag Financial Records, Socials, Credit Reports
Taylor Berman · 03/12/13 07:20AMA group of apparently Russian hackers, working on the website "exposed.su," claims to have published the private personal information of—or "doxxed"—17 politicians and celebrities. Victims include Michelle Obama, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, all of whom had credit reports posted to the website, as well as Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, whose social security numbers were published.
Either Colin Powell's Facebook Was Hacked Or He Has Had a Sudden Change of Heart About George W. Bush
Adrian Chen · 03/11/13 09:34AMBeware of NBC's Hacked Website
Cord Jefferson · 02/21/13 05:53PMThe Jeep Twitter Feed Has Been Hacked by the Same People Who Hacked Burger King Yesterday
Cord Jefferson · 02/19/13 02:03PMYesterday, hackers presumably from the DFNCTSC hacking crew took over Burger King's Twitter feed and turned it into an advertisement for McDonald's. Today it appears those same hackers have now overtaken the Jeep Twitter feed and are running a similar game, claiming that Jeep has been sold to Cadillac and shouting out not-very-Jeepy entities like Worldstar Hip Hop and Chief Keef.
Hackers Turn Burger King's Twitter Feed into a McDonald's Ad [UPDATE]
Cord Jefferson · 02/18/13 12:55PMThe person whose job it is to tweet about Burger King is probably having a worse day than usual. Hackers dropping shoutouts to seapunk icons and indie rappers have taken over Burger King's Twitter account and turned it into a McDonald's ad, claiming, "We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood near you."
Montana TV Station's Emergency Alert System Hacked, Warns of Zombie Apocalypse
Robert Kessler · 02/11/13 06:25PMAn emergency alert interrupted Montana television viewers as they watched the Steve Wilkos Show Monday, and calmly informed them that "dead bodies are rising from their graves."
Hacker Exposes Bush Family Emails, Photos, and George W. Bush's Amazing Self-Portraits
Taylor Berman · 02/07/13 11:03PMAfter gaining access to the personal email accounts of Dorothy Bush, George W. Bush's sister, and several friends close to the Bush family, a hacker apparently obtained Bush family photos, cell phone numbers, security codes, information about George H.W. Bush's health, a post-election email from Fox New's Brit Hume, and, most amazingly, pictures of George W. Bush's in-progress paintings, which are just as awkward and simple as you'd hope. All told, six accounts were hacked, including emails for Barbara Bush's brother, family friend Willard Hemingway, and CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz, another friend of the family.
Here's How Hackers Could Have Blacked Out the Superdome Last Night (Even Though They Probably Didn't)
Adrian Chen · 02/04/13 06:25PMBeyonce and voodoo have been ruled out as potential culprits in the bizarre 33-minute blackout during last night's Super Bowl. But what about hackers? It took just a few minutes after the lights went out in the Superdome for hackers to begin hinting they had something to do with it. "#TangoDown Superbowl XLVII," tweeted the most popular Twitter account of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. It's an outlandish claim and almost certainly a troll. But it's possible, and here's how it might have happened.
Anonymous Hacks Department of Justice Website, Threatens to Launch 'Multiple Warheads'
Robert Kessler · 01/26/13 11:21AMThe website belonging to the United States Sentencing Commission is down this morning, following a hack by Anonymous overnight. The site, which normally bears information about sentencing guidelines for federal crimes, instead showed a nearly 10 minute long YouTube video and the same message typed below it.
The Death of Aaron Swartz and the New Hacker Crackdown
Adrian Chen · 01/14/13 07:02PMIn 1992, the sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling published The Hacker Crackdown, a riveting nonfiction book about a string of high-profile hacker busts on the early "electronic frontier" of the late '80s and early '90s. The first hacker crackdown shook the early internet to its core and helped mobilize political geeks. Today, we're in the midst of a new crackdown. And with the death this weekend of the legally and emotionally troubled 26-year-old computer genius Aaron Swartz, this one has a body count.