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London -
The iCloud account of the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, Pippa Middleton, has apparently been hacked after photographs of her were offered to a newspaper.
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By AFP
Washington -
A computer hacker who helped the Islamic State group by providing stolen personal data on more than 1,000 US government and military workers was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
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Yahoo has finally revealed the extent of a "state-sponsored" hack. Back in 2014, hackers stole data relating to 500 million. This was probably the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history.
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By AFP
London -
A British man accused of hacking into thousands of United States government computers can be extradited to the US to face trial, a court in Britain ruled Friday.
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Russian Roman Seleznev, the son of a parliamentarian, has been found guilty in the U.S. of running a hacking scheme that stole $169 million from pizza outlets.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Swimming Australia's website has been under siege by cyber attackers, reports said Friday, after tough talking by gold medallist Mack Horton on doping suspicions inspired anger in China.
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A ransomware campaign currently doing the rounds in the US has been dubbed the "world's lamest" after researchers discovered it doesn't create unique encryption keys. The single code is hidden "in plain sight," letting anyone recover their files for free.
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Security researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows hackers to manipulate the pixels of computer monitors to change the displayed image. It could allow a new breed of malware to emerge, fooling users by displaying messages that bypass their PC.
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By AFP
Seoul -
Seoul prosecutors on Monday accused North Korea of hacking into the email accounts of dozens of South Korean government officials this year, the latest in the series of suspected cyber attacks by Pyongyang.
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By AFP
Moscow -
The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed allegations that Russia was behind a hack of the Democratic National Committee's emails as absurd, mocking what it called obsessive references to Russia in the US presidential campaign.
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By AFP
Detroit -
In a world where motor vehicles can be weapons and cars increasingly depend on internal computers and internet connections, automakers are under increasing pressure to find ways to guard against cyber-attacks.
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One of the strangest baseball stories in recent memory is coming to a close. Former director of scouting for the St. Louis Cardinals, Christopher Correa, has been sentenced to almost four years in prison.
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U.S. fast food burger chain Wendy's has been hit in a major credit card hack. It is estimated that one in five outlets nationwide have been affected.
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By AFP
Washington -
Hackers invited by the US government as part of a pilot program to find flaws with five Pentagon websites discovered 138 security vulnerabilities, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.
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The number of ransomware attacks faced by PC users is rising at an "alarming" rate, according to security experts who study the increasingly popular class of malware.
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Helsinki -
A ten year-old boy from Finland has hacked into Instagram, exposing a flaw in the Facebook-owned software. He has been rewarded by the company for his efforts.
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By AFP
Stockholm -
Swedish military computers were hacked and used in an attack targeting major US banks in 2013, the armed forces said on Monday.The attack knocked out the web pages of as many as 20 major US banks and financial institutions, sometimes for several days.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkey's election authority has denied that a massive data leak which saw the personal information of 50 million citizens posted online came from its system, local media reported Saturday.
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By AFP
Panama -
One of the founders of the law firm at the center of the explosive "Panama Papers" revelations on off-shore holdings told AFP on Tuesday his company was hacked by servers abroad.
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By AFP
Seoul -
South Korea's spy agency said Tuesday that North Korea had hacked into smartphones belonging to a number of key government officials, part of a series of cyber-attacks launched after its fourth nuclear test.
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By AFP
Bejing -
A hacker proclaiming allegiance to the Islamic State jihadist group infiltrated the internal network of one of China's top universities to display images of masked and mounted militants, reports said Monday.
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By AFP
Kiev -
A power failure that plunged parts of western Ukraine into the dark last month was caused by a cyberattack, IT experts said Tuesday, and one source called it a world first.
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A 23-year-old man from the Bahamas is accused of targeting more than 100 celebrities with hacking attacks and stealing unaired TV scripts, sexually explicit material and more.
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By AFP
Washington -
Twitter has warned some of its users that their accounts on the messaging platform may be the target of "state-sponsored hackers.
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By AFP
Berlin -
German police have searched the homes of 13 people as part of an international swoop on users of the mobile phone malware DroidJack, authorities said Thursday.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
Russian spies likely tried to hack into the Dutch Safety Board's computer systems to access a sensitive final report into the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine, experts said Friday.
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By AFP
Washington -
The CIA accused WikiLeaks of "malicious intent" after the anti-secrecy campaign group published an initial tranche of documents Wednesday it said were from the personal email account of director John Brennan.
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On Sunday, The New York Post reported that a teen hacker claimed to have gained access to CIA director John Brennan’s personal email account.
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By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysian police have arrested a "terrorist hacker" wanted by Washington for allegedly stealing data related to more than a thousand US military and government personnel and providing the information to the Islamic State group.
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Google Now can take orders from hackers across the room. Not only can this be done with Google Now, but hackers can do the same thing with Siri.
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A still from the film We Are Legion about the Anonymous hacktivists Courtesy Hot Docs
Heather Mills, the former Mrs McCartney, testifies to the Leveson Inquiry on February 9, 2012.
New Chinese operating system named NeoKylin OS, looks almost exactly like Windows XP. DJC
Runa Sandvik demonstrates for Wired how a TrackingPoint rifle can be hacked Wired/screenshot
Screenshot from the Mr. Robot TV show Courtesy USA Networks
A still from the film We Are Legion about the Anonymous hacktivists Courtesy Hot Docs
Members of Anonymous protest a Scientology "church" Wired
A screen shot of the Twitter account for the US Military Central Command, which was apparently hacked. Screenshot
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