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West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Pilot Was Possibly Targeted by a Student Hacker

Disclosed for the first time via public address on Wednesday, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner said there was an unsuccessful attempt to breach the pilot program, dubbed the “military …
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Teenage TalkTalk hacker accused of $800,000 cryptocurrency theft in the United States

Elliott Gunton – aka “Glubz” – is charged in relation to the December 2017 security breach of cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta.

Graham Cluley

20 month prison sentence for British hacker who made fortune helping SIM-swap fraudsters

A teenage British hacker, who previously played a role in the infamous TalkTalk data breach, has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to selling hacking services and stolen personal data for cryptocurrency.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Hacker modifies Apple Lightning cable to hijack computers

Here is one more reason to live in fear: a jacked-up Apple Lightning cable that enables hackers to remotely access your Mac. According to Motherboard and Forbes, a hacker who goes by the name MG …
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