Tag Archive for: hacker

Xfinity irresponsibly using 0000 as default PIN, hacker steals customer’s phone number and buys a Mac

In the latest episode of consumers affected by tech companies’ security flaws, Comcast’s Xfinity Mobile wireless service was found to be setting customer PINs by default to 0000. As reported …
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Teen hacker holds Apple to ransom over dangerous Mac bug that steals ALL of your passwords

18-year-old tech whizz Linus Henze is going head to head with the world’s most valuable company The German tech whizz claims the glitch could expose all your passwords – but he’ll only help Apple fix …
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Hacker arrested for wave of fake bomb and shooting threats against schools

Hacker arrested for wave of fake bomb and shooting threats against schools

FBI agents have arrested a 20-year-old man alleged to have been part of a hacking gang which not only launched distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but also launched a wave of chilling bomb and shooting threats against thousands of schools in the United States and United Kingdom.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

VFEmail suffers ‘catastrophic’ attack, as hacker wipes email service’s primary and backup data

VFEmail suffers 'catastrophic' attack, as hacker wipes email service's primary and backup data

There will be many angry customers of VFEmail who will be distraught at the thought that years’ worth of irreplaceable personal and business correspondence may have been wiped out. It’s understandable that some might turn their fury towards VFEmail.

But VFEmail is a victim too.

Graham Cluley