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Jeep Twitter account hacked, taken over by Cadillac fanboys

, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

In what we can only assume is a replay from yesterday, Jeep's Twitter account was hacked and much of the branding was changed over to Cadillac logos and images, mentioning that Cadillac has acquired Jeep, although that couldn't be further from the truth. We're guessing it's the same hackers behind yesterday's Burger King/McDonald's Twitter hack. Read The Full Story

Apple targeted by Java zero-day bug [UPDATE]

, Feb 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Last week, Facebook was attacked by a zero-day Java exploit. While the social network said that no personal data was stolen, it's never too comforting when companies and services get hacked. This week, however, Apple was the target this time around, saying that a "small number" Mac computers have been infected. Read The Full Story

Burger King Twitter account hacked to show McDonald’s superiority [UPDATE]

, Feb 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Hacking into systems and servers to play some harmless pranks isn't anything new, but today Burger King's official Twitter account was breached and the hackers appeared to be die-hard McDonald's fans, because they ended up changing the page's branding to the McDonald's logo and name, and mentioned that Burger King "just got sold to McDonald's because the Whopper flopped." Read The Full Story

Facebook security reveals zero-day Java attack

, Feb 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

It's never good when you have to make an official report to the public about a hacker attack your multi-billion dollar social network has had. That's what's happened this week as Facebook's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan lets it be known that several engineers on staff with Facebook had been the subject of a zero-day Java exploit. The good news is that no customer data was exposed (that's your stuff), the bad news is that Facebook wasn't the only company targeted by this attack. Read The Full Story

Evad3rs member Planetbeing talks iOS 7 jailbreaking

, Feb 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

The iOS 6 jailbreak is officially out and it's had plenty of time to get into the hands of eager jailbreakers, specially 7 million of them. Now that the Evad3rs dev team has had some time to relax, one of the members was available to answer questions on Reddit today. Planetbeing, the hacker also behind the first jailbreak ever, discussed his thoughts on jailbreaking iOS 7. Read The Full Story

Pebble watch jailbreak tweak shows all notifications from iPhone

, Feb 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

The Pebble smartwatch is finally shipping to customers after a number of delays, and we even got our hands on the thing during CES 2013 last month. Jailbreakers and app developers are also getting in on the fun, and now we're seeing what looks to be the first jailbreak tweak for iPhone built for the Pebble smartwatch. Read The Full Story

Hackers warn of zombie apocalypse in news station hack

, Feb 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

While hackers are usually notorious for breaking into databases and stealing personal information, some hackers simply breach into systems just for the fun of it. Case in point: someone (or possibly even a group) hacked their way into the KRTV affiliate of the Montana News Network and its CW station, prompting an emergency alert message warning viewers of an impending zombie apocalypse. Read The Full Story

Evasi0n jailbreak sees 7 million iOS devices hacked in four days

, Feb 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

The latest jailbreak, dubbed Evasi0n, has been the most popular jailbreak ever, with over 7 million iOS devices tampered with since the jailbreak's launch four days ago. This is according to Jay Freeman, the man behind the jailbreak app store Cydia, who says he noticed around 7 million iOS 6 devices roaming his store. Read The Full Story

Bamital Botnet destroyed: Microsoft, Symantec victorious

, Feb 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week the Botnet known as Bamital has been reported dead by the two warriors that claim to have killed it: Symantec and Microsoft. This report shows that the death of said botnet will take down its abilities in full: hijacking search results galore being the main evil this Bamital creature was working with. Each time a user in the line of fire searched for something using search engines from whens they'd be sent to a malicious 3rd party site, having malware installed from that point. Read The Full Story

Federal Reserve confirms Anonymous hack, critical operations not affected

, Feb 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

This past week has been full of hackings of various organizations, and the Federal Reserve is the latest on the list. They have confirmed that they were recently hacked by Anonymous. One of the organization's website was breached, and Anonymous reportedly leaked the contact information of thousands of bankers. Read The Full Story

iOS 6.1 jailbreak sees massive numbers, Cydia usage spikes

, Feb 5th 2013 Discuss [0]

Yesterday, the iOS 6.1 jailbreak officially released to the public, and it essentially was a scramble for millions of iOS 6 users, similar to how someone announces there's free food in the break room, and everyone dashes in to get their share. It turns out that the release saw a huge wave of users join in on the jailbreaking fun, and even Cydia became overloaded, resulting in errors that left users without tweaks for now. Read The Full Story

The Department of Energy reports that it was hacked in January

, Feb 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Multiple companies have been reported in recent times as having been hacked, including Twitter, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Now the Department of Energy has stepped in and stated that it was hacked in the middle of January, with sensitive data being compromised. The information comes from a letter the agency sent out to its employees. Read The Full Story
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