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In late 2017, Facebook systematically disabled accounts operated by North Koreans in response to that government's use of state-sponsored malware attacks. Microsoft did similar actions. The North Korean government had attracted widespread condemnation in the U.S. and elsewhere for its alleged proliferation of the "WannaCry" malware .
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, and a basic set of instructions. [3]
The social hack was in defrauding employees of the third party to divulge sensitive information, while the cybercrime was conducted by means of a malware infected email phishing attack. [11] The need for vigilant online security is highlighted by cyber-attacks against corporations like Target as well as other global businesses and high-traffic ...
February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...
An email storm (also called a reply all storm, sometimes reply allpocalypse, or more generally a notification storm) is a sudden spike of "reply all" messages on an email distribution list, usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message. Such storms can start when even one member of the distribution list replies to the entire list at ...
According to Microsoft, the hackers "gained access to and exfiltrated information from a very small percentage of employee email accounts," belonging to unnamed senior executives a well as members ...
Multiple mishaps, including the crash of an internal Microsoft system in April 2021 and the hack of the engineer, gave the Chinese hackers coveted access to a cryptographic key that was later used ...
Outlook for Windows (also referred to as New Outlook) is an email client developed by Microsoft. It is a replacement of the preloaded Windows Mail , Calendar apps and the contact management People app on Windows 10 and 11 , and is shipping as default with all versions of Windows 11 since 2024, beginning with version 24H2 .