Carnival hit by cyber attack: Hackers steal personal information of cruise giant’s passengers and staff By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 23:13 BST, 18 August 2020 The personal information of Carnival’s passengers and staff has been stolen by hackers, it emerged yesterday. The embattled cruise giant … Read more
Amazon has released a child-friendly feature for its Alexa smart assistant called FreeTime. Once activated, the device will answer questions on sensitive topics differently to palm-off curious children. Alexa changes its answers to questions poised by all members of the household once the feature is turned on, regardless of age. ALEXA, WHERE DO BABIES COME … Read more
A group of hackers who reportedly acessed the Twitter accounts of celebrities, were taken down by rival gang who shared a database of their usernames and messages, which led to their arrests by the FBI. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa. Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Florida; and Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor … Read more
Secret UK trade documents used by then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to attack the Government were stolen by Russian hackers from the email account of former international trade secretary Liam Fox, it was reported today. The Department of International Trade documents on post-Brexit trade talks with the US were brandished by the hard Left MP at … Read more
The FBI were able to track down three hackers who pulled off the largest Twitter breach in history because they were ‘extremely sloppy’ with how they moved their Bitcoin transactions around. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, of Tampa, Florida; Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando, Florida; and Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor Regis, U.K. have all be charged … Read more
Chinese Nationals Li Xiaoyu (above), 34, and Dong Jiazhi, 31, allegedly stole ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of trade secrets, intellectual property, and other valuable business information’ in a sophisticated, decade-long scheme The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it has charged two Chinese hackers with trying to steal US COVID-19 research as well as other … Read more
Twitter has come under fire for a security breach which allowed hackers to hijack the accounts of billionaires and powerful politicians – amid fears they could have played havoc with the stock market, messed with elections, or even tried to start a war. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk were all among … Read more
Hackers used ransomware to take over parts of UC San Francisco’s network and extorted $1.14million in exchange for returning access to their files University of California San Francisco lost control of some of its files in a hack Ransomware was used to encrypt files and UCSF agreed to pay for their return UCSF hasn’t said … Read more
Hackers hijack more than 1,200 Roblox accounts and flood the popular children’s video game with messages supporting Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign A coordinated hacking campaign is filling Roblox with Trump 2020 propaganda More than 1,200 accounts have been affected so far Hacked accounts say, ‘Ask your parents to vote for Trump this year!#MAGA2020’ By Michael … Read more
Julian Assange faces new DOJ indictment that states he ‘tried to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could provide Wikileaks with classified information’ The U.S. Department of Justice filed a new indictment on Wednesday It states he ‘sought to recruit hackers at confernces in Europe and Asia who could provide the Wikileaks … Read more