There are important steps to protect yourself Some iPhones are at risk of being hacked by mercenary spyware, Apple has confirmed, as it has raised new concerns about device security and surveillance. Just before the Christmas holidays, Apple released fixes for two actively exploited security flaws in order to fight this risk. What is mercenary […]

2 months ago

Millions will be worried! Pornography video-sharing website Pornhub has been hit by security breach and 200 million users have been threatened to be exposed by hackers. Hackers claim to have broken Pornhub’s site security and data could be exposed for around 200 million users on the site. The cybercrime group ShinyHunters is reported to have […]

3 months ago

Gary Bowser hasn’t even paid off $200 yet A man jailed for more than three years and fined $14.5 (£11.6m) for his role in a Nintendo hacking group has been released from jail, but his punishment is far from over. Gary Bowser now has to pay the company 25-30 per cent of his salary every […]

3 years ago

Anonymous argues that the agency’s activities are a matter of public interest ‘to the people of Russia’ Anonymous has hacked into the database of Roskomnadzor, the agency responsible for censoring the country’s media. The attack has allowed the group to seize more than 360,000 files, which they have now released to the public. The main […]

4 years ago

CoD is cracking down on cheaters Call of Duty developers and publisher Activision have announced a new anti-cheat system that implemented into Warzone and the latest instalment Vanguard. The new system, dubbed ‘RICOCHET’, aims to be a “multi-faceted approach” to anti-cheating that uses a PC kernel-level driver designed to not only assist in the identification […]

4 years ago

Operation Ironside might sound like a Transformers spin-off but it was actually a pretty impressive initiative American and Australian authorities have hacked a ‘crime app’ with encrypted messages that led to the arrest of hundreds of organised crime members. Across eighteen countries, officials were able to hack encrypted messages and carry out Operation Ironside. Operation […]

5 years ago