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Tech Major data hack nabs 184M passwords for Google, Apple and more: ‘Cybercriminal’s dream’ By Brooke Steinberg Published May 28, 2025, 2:17 p.m. ET ...
US and European authorities on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on a prolific hacking tool that has been used by hundreds of hackers in damaging ransomware attacks, bank thefts and other ...
Hacking contest exposes VMware security In what has been described as a historical first, hackers in Berlin have been able to demo successful attacks on the ESXi hypervisor By ...
Dustin Childs can still describe the best demonstration of a winning hack at an international tournament he’s ever seen. It happened almost a decade ago. The participants had to find a way to ...
Climate Private eye accused of hacking American climate activists loses U.K. extradition fight April 30, 202510:03 AM ET By Michael Copley ...
A version of this article appears in print on May 3, 2025, Section B, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Man Accused of Hacking Climate Groups Can Be Extradited to the U.S., Judge Says.
Ethical hacking has saved the day in a number of cases — for example, Baptiste Robert, a French researcher, found a unique vulnerability in a WordPress plugin that accidentally exposed the ...
Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a type of interference used to infiltrate traditional computers ...
A federal hacking case alleging that former Ravens and University of Michigan coach Matt Weiss gained access to thousands of intimate photos of college students might include former Towson ...
After supposedly receiving a legal threat from a South Korean gaming company Nexon Co, he claimed in a 2010 post that "I no longer hack into Paypals, gain root access into other peoples computer ...
Depictions of hackers often show them with a half dozen screens and an expensive PC rig. You might think of a character like Gavin Orsay, the hacker from "House of Cards" who spends his days ...
Researchers at George Mason University have discovered a way to track just about any Bluetooth device using Apple’s Find My network. The hack, dubbed nRootTag, can be used by hackers to make any ...