In what appears to be a massive coordinated strike against Reddit , hackers took over dozens of pages on Friday afternoon, using their access to plaster pro-Donald Trump imagery across subreddits with huge followings.
Coming just over three weeks after hackers used access to high-profile Twitter accounts to tweet a bitcoin scam , the wave of Reddit compromises has a similarly eye-popping reach. Reddit communities with well over a million members—including r/space, r/food, and r/NFL—were all defaced with Make America Great Again campaign banners and other pro-Trump signage.
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Security bugs let these car hackers remotely control a Mercedes-Benz – TechCrunch
Since then, the car hacking world has bustled with security researchers looking to find new bugs — and ways to exploit them — in a new wave of internet-connected cars that have only existed the past decade.
This year’s Black Hat security conference — albeit virtual, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic — is no different.
Security researchers at the Sky-Go Team, the car hacking unit at Qihoo 360, found more than a dozen vulnerabilities in a Mercedes-Benz E-Class car that allowed them to remotely open its doors and start the engine.
Hackers and Defense Officials Unite Online at DEF CON 28 - ClearanceJobs
This year's event, DEF CON 28 will have the U.S. Air Force, the new U.S. Space Force, and the Defense Department's Digital Defense Service among its honored guests. The first-ever event began in 1993 when one hacker threw a party and invited members of a plethora of hacker networks in which he was connected.
The Air Force came to DEF CON last year with an F-15 fighter jet data system and invited participants to attack it with the deadliest malware they could muster up. Air Force personnel collected the results to assess how vulnerable the aircraft was to cyber-attacks, and what kinds of damage these attacks could render to it.
Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermath – TechCrunch
A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter.
A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used a phone spearphishing attack to pivot through multiple layers of Twitter’s security and bypassed its two-factor authentication to gain access to an internal “admin” tool that let the hacker take over any account.
It was, by all accounts, a sophisticated attack that required technical skills and an ability to trick and deceive to pull off the scam. Some security professionals were impressed, comparing the attack to one that had the finesse and professionalism of a well-resourced nation-state attacker.
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Dutch Hackers Found a Simple Way to Mess With Traffic Lights | WIRED
In movies like Die Hard 4 and The Italian Job , hijacking traffic lights over the internet looks easy. But real-world traffic-light hacking, demonstrated by security researchers in years past , has proven tougher, requiring someone to be within radio range of every target light.
At the Defcon hacker conference Thursday, Dutch security researchers Rik van Duijn and Wesley Neelen will present their findings about vulnerabilities in an "intelligent transport" system that would allow them to influence traffic lights in at least 10 different cities in the Netherlands over the internet.
'Achilles' chip flaws in Android devices let hackers plant unremovable malware - SiliconANGLE
The flaws were discovered by publicly traded cybersecurity provider Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The company plans to discuss the vulnerability series, which it has codenamed Achilles, today at the online Def Con security event.
Check Point researchers discovered the flaws in a chip from Qualcomm Inc., a major semiconductor supplier to the mobile industry. The cybersecurity provider is withholding key technical details such as the name of the affected chip model in the interest of protecting users. The reason is that, though Qualcomm has patched the vulnerabilities, device makers whose products use its silicon need time to roll out updates for all their customers.
How the Alleged Twitter Hackers Got Caught | WIRED
On July 15, a Discord user with the handle Kirk#5270 made an enticing proposition. "I work for Twitter," they said, according to court documents released Friday. "I can claim any name, let me know if you're trying to work." It was the beginning of what would, a few hours later, turn into the biggest known Twitter hack of all time.
Friday afternoon, after an investigation that included the FBI, IRS, and Secret Service, the Department of Justice charged UK resident Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli, of Orlando, Florida in connection with the Twitter hack. A 17-year-old, Graham Ivan Clark, was charged separately with 30 felonies in Hillsborough County, Florida, including 17 counts of communications fraud.
Hackers Are Building an Army of Cheap Satellite Trackers | WIRED
Even though the Defcon security conference has moved entirely online the year, the US Air Force is going forward with Hack-a-Sat, a months-long competition that culminates with hacking a real orbiting satellite starting on Friday. But another project at Defcon's Aerospace Village this week should have at least as much impact and a potentially much broader reach: an open source satellite communication tool made from about a hundred bucks worth of hardware.
The project, dubbed NyanSat, isn't just a workaround for a remote conference. The goal is to make low-earth-orbit satellite communication technology much more accessible and swap out the massive, specialized transmitters, antennas, and radio dishes that go into satellite ground stations for open source software and an affordable hardware kit. NyanSat ground stations aren't refined or powerful enough to replace the real deal, but their strength lies in their potential ubiquity.
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