Hacking News

PUBG, short for Player Unknowns Battle Ground, is a popular game published by PUBG Corporation with more than 45 million active players worldwide. Quite recently the game was in the news for hackers breaking into the system to steal personal information of players. Read more

In a troubling denial-of-service (DDoS) attack this week, the website of a county election commission in Tennessee went offline during a mayoral primary. Knox County reported that despite the disruption, “The cyber-attack did not impact the results of the election.” Read more

An open students competition called Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge was held by NASA to encourage students in showing their talents by making real life projects. Read more

Cryptocurrencies are on the rise and this makes hackers curious. Recently, the Substatum Twitter account was hacked by some unknown hacker. It’s a company that deals in forwarding content from hosts in exchange for cryptocurrency as payment. Read more

A parent logging on their child’s high school account to check on his/her grades and homework assignments made an astonishing discovery: security camera images showing his teen walking down a hall inside the Colonial Heights High School. Read more

After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause. Read more

A new phishing scam capitalizes on the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to trick Airbnb customers into sharing personal and financial data, Redscan reports. Read more

We see many data breaches on the news but the largest bank in Australia has confirmed that it has lost data of 12 million customers after the magnetic tapes containing a back up of their personal financial history has gone missing. Read more

According to a new Freedom of Information request, over a third of critical infrastructures outages in the UK were down due to cyber-attack over the past year. Corero Network Security received responses from around 200 critical infrastructure organizations including ambulance trusts, fire and rescue services, NHS trusts, water authorities, energy companies and transport bodies. Read

Michael Lamon Williams, 21, was arrested in February on nine counts of computer trespass and 71 counts of computer forgery. When presented with the case last week, the grand jury returned an indictment that charged Williams with seven counts of computer forgery, according to documents filed in Clarke County Superior Court. Read more