Tag: HACKED

Symptom: Maybe your Twitter or Facebook friends have gotten viciously spammed with fake offers for a free iPad, or a link to a fake app -- from your profile. Or, maybe you've discover posts on your profile that you never wrote, often with links leading to websites, apps or coupons. You may discover personal messages sent to friends that you didn't write, perhaps asking them to wire money. Or, ...

Taking on Lady Gaga is scary. Taking on Gagaloo, Rihanna, Ke$ha and Justin Timberlake? Well, that goes beyond brazen and attains near-heroic levels of brass gonads. That's exactly what two German hackers -- mere kids at 17 and 23 -- claim to have done, infecting A-list stars with trojans and malware in hopes of snatching some juicy scoops. "The trick itself is nothing special," German prosecutor ...

Let's role play a bit. You're a hacker and a spreader of malware. Your specialty is hijacking Twitter accounts and using them to spread spam and links to malicious sites. You've just managed to take over the Twitter page for United Airlines. In the meantime, we'll play the role of the hapless United Airlines follower who is constantly hoping to see a deal for cheap flights pop up. So, what ...

If you worry about the Federal Aviation Administration's aging computer systems and their inability to effectively deal with the constant flood of air traffic, perhaps you should spare a thought for the internal systems that keep track of the Administration's thousands of employees. Apparently, they're in need of some attention, too, with the FAA announcing that the names and social security ...

Not that the whole using-cellphones-for-disease-detection is completely fresh, but the latest handset hack for medical purposes is still mighty impressive. UCLA researcher Dr. Aydogan Ozcan has essentially converted a standard cellphone into a portable blood tester of sorts, which is capable of detecting HIV, malaria and various other illnesses. Put as simply as possible, the device works by ...

Robots are awesome, we can all probably agree on that. Robots made from iPhones are basically an extension of that awesomeness, crossed with an element of unimaginable, ludicrous fun, which is why we're pleasantly surprised to see that such a device finally exists. Using a jailbroken iPhone 3G running some Ruby code, an Arduino CPU, a TA7291P motor, and 4 AA batteries, the creator is able to ...

For years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it's finally coming clean. According to spokesman Chris Riggall, a "critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being ...

People are just plain cruel sometimes. Take, for instance, a group of hackers who thought it would be freakin' hilarious to break into a support forum for epileptics and post flashing animations all over the page. The Epilepsy Foundation found out about the attack with in 12 hours and closed down the forums, but not before people, like RyAnne Fultz (pictured), suffered headaches and seizures. ...

Kids do the darnedest things sometimes. Take the 14-year-old from Lodz, Poland, who hacked a television remote control to manipulate his city's tram system, thereby derailing four trams, and injuring 12 people. Little rapscallion, what can you do? Apparently charge him with endangering public safety and drag him before a juvenile court. Or at least that's what the court in Lodz did in the case ...