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Gary McKinnon (born February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time". [1] McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other technologies potentially useful to ...
The hacker Pompompurin claimed responsibility for the attack in an interview with Krebs on Security. [4] In a later interview with ProPublica Pompompurin later claimed the hack was done for "fun." [6] Vinny Troia blogged about his belief that it was the work of Canadian hacker Chris Meunier. In an interview with ProPublica, Pompompurin denied ...
A white hat (or a white-hat hacker, a whitehat) is an ethical security hacker. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ethical hacking is a term meant to imply a broader category than just penetration testing. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Under the owner's consent, white-hat hackers aim to identify any vulnerabilities or security issues the current system has. [ 5 ]
Know when your AOL Mail account has been hacked and how to fix it. Find out how you can tell if your account was compromised and what to do to secure it.
AOL takes your security very seriously, and as such, we stay ahead of this problem by updating our DMARC policy to tell other compliant providers like Yahoo, Gmail, and Outlook to reject mail from AOL address sent from non-AOL servers.
The FBI MoneyPak Ransomware, also known as Reveton Ransomware, is a ransomware that starts by purporting to be from a national police agency (like the American Federal Bureau of Investigation) and that they have locked the computer or smartphone due to "illegal activities" and demands a ransom payment via GreenDot MoneyPak cards in order to release the device.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday the FBI is investigating the hack of the ... Bitcoin and other digital assets experienced significant price fluctuations after the fake ...
DigiNotar was a Dutch certificate authority, established in 1998 and acquired in January 2011 by VASCO Data Security International, Inc. [1] [2] The company was hacked in June 2011 and it issued hundreds of fake certificates, some of which were used for man-in-the-middle attacks on Iranian Gmail users. The company was declared bankrupt in ...