Hacking is done for a whole lot of reasons, but rarely do we see a hacker breaking into school computers simply to change grades. This was precisely the charge brought up against an 18-year-old Miami University student who was arrested.
Citizen Lab recently published a damning report, citing that the spyware by Hacking Team is being used by a number of oppressive regimes around the globe. The surveillance-technology company has now denied this.
One of the biggest banking heist of recent times occured when hackers were successful in making away with 40 million credit card numbers. It would now appear that these hackers are now selling the numbers at underground hacking forums.
Over the past few years, hackers around the globe have grown increasingly sophisticated. Concerted cyberattacks have been launched against different countries and now, Finland has made it to the list. It has been revealed that the country’s government data network was hit with a ‘severe and large’ hacking attack earlier this year.
We have seen virtually countless software as well as hardware flaws in smartphones over the past few years. However, until now, SIM was considered a rather secure part of any handset, safe from any hacks. Now, a German cryptographer has found a combination of encryption and software flaws which could enable SIM hacking.
Wide-scale hacking episodes are becoming increasingly frequent in the digital arena. The latest to suffer from such hacking attempts is Ubisoft, the popular video game developer. According to reports, the screen names and passwords of as-yet-unknown number of Ubisoft users have been exposed in a recent hack.
Edward Snowden, the man credited with the recent leaks about NSA’s PRISM program, is currently in Hong Kong. In a recent interview given to a Chinese paper, he has claimed that US government and its agencies have been hacking into computers in Hong Kong and China for many years.
In the past, it was discovered that a nefarious and highly advanced malware, Flame, was used to target machines in Iran and Middle East. Attacks were also made on Iran’s energy sector. Now, U.S. has accused Iran of a similar act, citing that Iranian hackers have been targeting energy companies based in U.S.