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Webcam spy sends couple photos of previous night’s Netflix snuggle session
Unbeknown to the couple, they were actually sharing their movie night with a spy who was watching them via the webcam on their laptop.
Cybersquatter frenzy as Google becomes Alphabet without owning alphabet.com
Google’s big announcement this Monday that it was creating a new holding company called Alphabet took the business world by surprise, and cybersquatters have moved in to exploit confusion about the Alphabet domain name and website.
FBI catches swatter who said “you can’t catch a hacker”
A Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one count of threats to kill, after an investigation by the FBI pinpointed him as the source of several hoax bomb threats and “swatting” calls to police in Minnesota, Ohio and Massachusetts.
X-rated videos shown on hacked Brazilian bus station screens
All your bus station arrival/departure video screens are belong to us!
Google profits from YouTube RAT infestation, says consumer group
YouTube has thousands of videos on stealing images and spreading malware, along with examples of stolen streams from “slave” devices.
Officials blame Russia for Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff email hack
Russia has been blamed for launching a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff unclassified email system.
Stagefrightened Google, Samsung to push out monthly Android fixes
The aptly named Stagefright vulnerability scared them into action. Let’s hope that fear shakes up all the vendors and carriers so the fixes get to us ASAP.
Sound: Yet another way to smack down drones
Researchers attacked drones by matching their gyroscopes’ resonant frequencies, sending them crashing into the ground as they vibrated like glasses shattered by opera singers.
Tutor gets a year in jail for hacking his students’ grades
Timothy Lai used keyloggers to break into computer systems at a school in Orange County, California, and adjust the grades of his students.