LLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity

Back in the 1960s, if you played a 2,600Hz tone into an AT&T pay phone, you could make calls without paying. A phone hacker named John Draper noticed that the plastic whistle that came free in a box of Captain Crunch cereal worked to make the right sound. That became his hacker name, and everyone...

TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data

Plus: Liz Truss’ phone-hacking trouble, Cash App’s sex-trafficking problem, and the rising cost of ransomware...

Don't share the WhatsApp 'Martinelli' phone hacking alert: It's a hoax

Everyone loves a good campfire story prone to exaggeration. However, when told online its not quite got the same effect. Long ago, sites like Myspace would play host to very certain types of messages. "Dont open this post from Johnny Cyberhack, or your account will be stolen and your C drive will...

Heather Mills Gets An Apology and 'Substantial' Settlement in Spyware Case

The 2010-2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal – in which it was revealed that the tabloid dropped malware on celebrity targets’ phones in order to gather dirt for news stories – is still playing out in court. The latest is a settlement for a “substantial” sum paid to Heather Mills and her...

A week in security (July 2 – July 8)

Last week, we tracked back a large mining operation from their Coinhive shortlink, we took a look at online project management tools, we described a new macro-less technique to distribute malware, and talked about a Mac malware that targets crypto-mining users. Other news: Huawei enterprise comms...

Ex-NSO Employee Caught Selling Stolen Phone Hacking Tool For $50 Million

A former employee of one of the world's most powerful hacking companies NSO Group has been arrested and charged with stealing phone hacking tools from the company and trying to sell it for $50 million on the Darknet secretly. Israeli hacking firm NSO Group is mostly known for selling high-tech...

Report: Computer Hacking, Theft Of Government Secrets Alleged In News International Probe

A report from The Guardian claims that detectives working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International may have siphoned off classified intelligence documents from MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency. The report comes some six months after the first reports indicating that computer hacking,...

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack !

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack ! Court tells private investigator he must identify 'News of the World' executives who asked him to intercept voicemails. A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voice-mail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert...

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack !

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack ! Court tells private investigator he must identify 'News of the World' executives who asked him to intercept voicemails. A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voice-mail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert...

Anonymous Hacks Murdoch's Sun Web Site

Ever attuned to the headlines, the hacker collective Anonymous have inserted themselves into the ongoing scandal over hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World Tabloid, hacking the Web site of The Sun, another Murdoch publication, and redirecting traffic to that paper’s home page to a phony...

News Intl. Calls Brown's Allegations of Malware Use "Nonsense"

Allegations made on Wednesday by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown that journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid used malicious software to break into and gather information from computers belonging to the subjects of investigations was greeted with a strong...

UK Vodafone Phone Hacking method exposed

UK Vodafone Phone Hacking method exposed The Hacker's Choice announced a security problem with Vodafone's Mobile Phone Network today. An attacker can listen to any UK Vodafone customer's phone call. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in 3G/UMTS/WCDMA - the latest and most secure mobile phone...

UK Vodafone Phone Hacking method exposed

UK Vodafone Phone Hacking method exposed The Hacker's Choice announced a security problem with Vodafone's Mobile Phone Network today. An attacker can listen to any UK Vodafone customer's phone call. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in 3G/UMTS/WCDMA - the latest and most secure mobile phone...

Hugh Grant's Turns Snitch

Hugh Grant went all mafia informant when he concealed a microphone on his persons in order to out former News of the World journalists that had been involved in a rather shady phone-hacking scandal. Evidently, News of the World has, for some time, been implicated in a phone-hacking scandal whereb...

More than 3,000 may accept been victims of phone hacking !

Up to 3,000 bodies who may accept been victims of the phone-hacking aspersion will be contacted by police, it has emerged. Officers plan to address to abstracts from politics, showbusiness and action whose names were begin at the bounds of a clandestine detective confined over the scam. The added...

Union leader Crow claims phone was hacked !

Firebrand abutment baton Bob Crow on Monday became the best recent accessible amount to accuse to the badge that his buzz has been afraid by journalists. Lawyers for Bob Crow, general-secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Carriage Workers' union, accept accounting to London's Metropolitan Badge...

Former British Labour cabinet minister says her phone was hacked !

LONDON: Former British cabinet minister confirmed that his work phone was cut 28 times - and now seek a court order to see if it happened again later that week. Tessa Jowell, the former Olympics minister, is the oldest politician so far to be sure that his phone message was kidnapped and has join...

Four years on, phone-hacking scandal is still growing !

Four years after the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World saw the newspaper's former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, jailed, the story refuses to die. Each week another celebrity launches a legal action against the paper, generating a fresh batch of damaging allegations that Rupert...

Police Change Approach to Phone Hacking Case Involving Andy Coulson

The police have changed their approach to a phone hacking incident that could affect Andy Coulson. Coulson, the media adviser for the Prime Minister, was previously an editor for the News of the World. The police have taken steps to halt the flow of information that could implicate high-ranking...