 Brisbane Times |
Gay Cruising App Grindr Hacked, Internet to Be Littered with Dick Pictures
Gawker Apparently, according to an internet security expert, Grindr (and its silly straight cousin Blendr) has no real security at all. Joel Simkhai, the owner and founder of Grindr (who, like Sy Sperling, is also a user) knows about the security problems and … Report: Grindr hacked, user info and photos exposed |
Computer security consultant Thomas Ryan’s ham-fisted attempt at spying on Occupy Wall Street last October exposed his own snitching to the feds. But the FBI apparently still trusts him enough to have had him speak at their big computer security conference …
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Gawker was hacked six months ago, say sources close to Gnosis — Server was cracked using ‘local file inclusion’ weakness and hacking group then worked through system to access passwords and source code, sources say … Hackers had access to the gossip site Gawker’s content management system …
Meanwhile, a related virus seems to be creeping across Twitter … We cannot provide any more information as to how the attack was carried out, because this could be used against us.”
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