‘Hackers’ Archives
Is your 4 year-old ‘stealing’ your personal data via trojans? Yes, says security research
Davey Winder reveals how malware writers are tricking young children into installing trojans One of the problems that isn’t addressed by many people – be they parents, media or even IT security vendors – is the relatively new, and totally despicable, practice of using [Read More]
15 year old high school ‘hacker’ recruited by MIT to make military gadgets
Meet Thomas Sohmers, the 15-year-old computer whiz who hacks defunct tablet computers for fun, collaborates on military technology concepts with MIT, and wants to start his own company. Sohmers made a splash at MIT when he showed off a head-mounted display he’d made for a [Read More]
Ten year old hacker reveals mobile game loopholes
A novel class of security problems have been found lurking in many mobile games by a ten-year old hacker. Going by the handle CyFi, the hacker presented her findings at the DefCon hacker conference held in Las Vegas. She found that advancing the clock on a tablet or phone [Read More]
“Join the cause and kill facebook” on Nov 5 invites hacker group Anonymous
Notorious hacker collective Anonymous on Tuesday threatened to “kill” Facebook on Nov. 5, according to a YouTube videospotlighted on official channels used by the group. “Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed,” the group wrote in a [Read More]
Feds launch first ever DEF CON Kids hacker conference for computer savvy 8 to 16 year olds
Federal officials are planning to tell computer-savvy children about the risks and rewards of using their coding skills to break into computers at this weekend’s first-ever DEF CON Kids hacker conference…. “We need to train a new generation of kids to [Read More]
Summer camp for kid hackers?
….The Defcon Kids conference — the first of its kind — will be held in Las Vegas this August. Kids between eight and 16 will learn how to hack computers as well as protect themselves against cyber-attacks. With high-profile hacking incidents on the ride, Defcon [Read More]
Hacker group LulzSec in spotlight as British police make arrest
As suspects go, Ryan Cleary did not look dangerous: a pale 19-year-old who looked five years younger, wearing a white skateboarding T-shirt and track pants, standing nervously in a courtroom here on Thursday. [Read More]
Could your teen be a secret hacker?
Teenage global hacker suspect’s mum: I thought he was just playing computer games [Read More]
Hackers beware government cracking down with stiffer sentences
Criminal and black hat hackers beware – If the U.S. government finds you, it is not going to be lenient. The stakes are rising in the world of cybersecurity and the Obama administration is not taking it lightly. The White House has proposed to congress an increase in [Read More]
Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ targets Federal Reserve
The Anonymous hacker group says it plans to target the Federal Reserve starting tomorrow, most likely with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to shut down the agency’s Web site. In a YouTube video, the group is calling for public protests until [Read More]
