They’re facing charges of computer criminal activity after allegedly disrupting the network at the request of their friends.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Knock and don’t run: the tale of the relentless hackerbots
If you have an IoT device in your home, you could be receiving an average of 13 login attempts to these devices per minute. That’s according to Matt Boddy’s latest research.
Chrome, Safari and Opera criticised for removing privacy setting
Forthcoming versions of the Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera are in the process of removing the ability to disable a long-ignored tracking feature called hyperlink auditing pings.
Airbnb says sorry after man detects hidden camera with network scan
His family of 7 was one network scan away from potentially being livestreamed by their host.
Hacker unlocks Samsung S10 with 3D-printed fingerprint
According to a video posted on the Imgur site Friday, it’s possible to bypass the biometrics on the new Galaxy S10 range using a 3D-printed fingerprint in minutes.
Fired sysadmin pleads guilty to doxxing five senators on Wikipedia
Cosko, 27, pleaded guilty to five counts including making public restricted personal information, computer fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice,
Bootstrap supply chain attack is another attempt to poison the barrel
Somebody smuggled something bad into the vast third-party, open-source supply chain we all depend upon.
Microsoft lets Windows users off the update leash
Microsoft has announced some big changes that will finally give Windows users more control over updates and releases.
Firefox draws battle lines against push notification spam
Mozilla doesn’t yet know how to solve the problem of website push notification spam in the Firefox browser, but it’s working on it.
Myspace songs come back from the dead
It’s fewer than 1% of the 50 million songs and videos Myspace lost, but hey, it’s better than nothing!