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Horrifying Hack Takes Over iPhones Just by Pointing an Antenna at Them

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During the coronavirus lockdown, professional hacker Ian Beer, a member of Google’s hacking team Project Zero, developed a way to remotely hijack iPhones — simply by pointing a homebrewed antenna at them.

Beer’s technique requires only about $100 worth of equipment, Motherboard reports, and granted him total control of whatever phones he targeted. This is Beer’s specialty, but the fact remains that his comparatively-simple hack made the iPhone’s security measures seem disturbingly trivial.

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In an eerie video, Beer hijacks 26 iPhones at once with a single broadcast. The hack sends out a WiFi signal that will work even if the target phones aren’t connected to the internet, according to Motherboard.

In a longer and more technically-dense video, Beer explains how the broadcast works and how it can be propagated among iPhones even beyond those that were initially targeted.

“There’s something hauntingly beautiful watching all these iPhones die at slightly different times, as they get a WiFi broadcast packet of death,” Chris Evans, the original head of Project Zero, tweeted.

Locked Door

Thankfully, Apple fixed the bugs that Beer’s hack targets with its May release of iOS 13.5, according to Motherboard, which was released earlier this year. But the hack still poses a security threat, aside from the broader implications of how easily Beer was able to develop it.

Not every iPhone has been updated, and cybersecurity expert “Ray Redacted” warns that iPhones sitting in police custody, previously inaccessible, could be cracked open with an exploit like Beer’s.

READ MORE: Watch This Google Hacker Pwn 26 iPhones With a ‘WiFi Broadcast Packet of Death’ [Motherboard]

More on cybersecurity: The FBI Forced A Suspect To Unlock His iPhone With His Face

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5 Great Tips to Hack Laptop Camera using IP Address

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So, you want to hack someone’s laptop camera using their IP address? Now yes, doing that is possible. Someone might even have hacked yours and looked at what you are doing and ironically judging you on what a creep you are.

Well, before I judge you for even coming and reading this article, I will warn you very clearly that what you are about to do is very illegal. This article does not encourage hacking someone’s webcam for stalking and spying on them and it was written for the sole purpose of educating the masses and how to best look out and protect themselves from such vulnerabilities.

Now before going in for that webcam video, the first thing you need to get is access to your victims’ computer. Streaming the webcam is the easy part. So, here’s how to get access to your victim’s computer.

1. You can use Social Engineering

Social Engineering is a hacking tool that predates computers as well. By social engineering you trick someone through browser ads or other methods that show that their computer has been infected with a very dangerous virus or malware and they will have to contact you on the given number where the receiver poses as a Microsoft representative. Once the call has been established, you can very easily trick them into installing software that will enable remote access and with that a direct line to the webcam. This is a very fool proof way of getting access to a victim’s computer and you can even install other malwares which will eliminate the need for using the remote access software and directly stream their webcam.

2. You can use Remote Access Trojans

Normally used for nefarious and criminal purposes, remote access trojans are tools that trick your computer to provide administrator privileges to your victim’s computers. These programs can be installed using nefarious chrome extensions or websites and are practically invisible to your victims. If your victim likes to go on to pirate sites then you can very easily hook them there by bundling it with a piece of software or a game you know they will install.

3. Make the Victims PC a part of your Botnet

Botnets are basically a string or a network of PCs that can be…

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Manchester United hack: UK’s cyber security agency assisting the club

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The UK’s cyber security agency is assisting Manchester United over a cyber attack earlier this month which has left the football club unable to yet fully restore their computer systems.

The Premier League club confirmed the hacking on November 20 and said it was not “aware of any breach of personal data associated with our fans and customers”.

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Premier League clubs to tighten cyber security methods after Manchester United hack

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Premier League clubs are expected to tighten cyber security methods as investigators warn a hack on Manchester United is just the tip of an iceberg.

United are believed to be facing a seven-figure ransom demand over the attack, which has left the club unable to yet fully restore its computer systems. GCHQ cyber security agents have been called in to help.

The National Cyber Security Centre recently published a report showing 70 per cent of major sports organisations are targeted by hackers every 12 months.

Ciaran Martin, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School, told Telegraph Sport on Friday night how he saw attacks on sporting organisations rise while he was chief executive at the NCSC.

“The risk to sport was on the up, not markedly, but incrementally, because of the realisation by potential attackers of rich sources of data and money that might be available from sporting organisations,” he said. “It’s big business, as we all know.”

Manchester City say it is a “matter of public record” that they have also been repeatedly targeted. In February, an IT worker was arrested amid claims he got players’ personal details and records of confidential transfer talks from Pep Guardiola’s email account. Last week, it also emerged British athletes were among hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities whose personal photographs had been breached in an iCloud attack.

“Sports organisations are at risk from cyber attacks for two reasons,” Martin, one of the leading figures in the UK’s fight against cyber crime, said. Nation-state attacks – such as Russia’s breach against the World Anti-Doping Agency in August 2016 – are high profile, but rare, he explained. “The other, which looks more likely here – although I must stress I don’t know the details because I’m not in Government any more – would appear to be a standard criminal ransom attempt to extort money by encrypting data or otherwise compromising data.”

The Football Association beefed up its security ahead of the World Cup in Russia in 2018, but many Premier League clubs have yet to bring their security levels in line with some other sectors.

Government has no powers to…

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