Hacking News

Nintendo had previously refused to acknowledge FLOG, let alone say whether it was a conscious tribute to Iwata (more proof: You can only access it by pointing your Joy-Con controllers outward, as Iwata had done during Switch demonstrations). Read more

Mozilla issued a critical security update to its popular open-source Thunderbird email client. The patch was part of a December release of five fixes that included two bugs rated high and one rated moderate and another low. Read more

Zachary Buchta, a 20 year old hacker, who is the co-founder of famous hacking groups called Lizard Squad And Poodlecorp was recently in news for all the wrong reasons. A few days back, he was caught by the Chicago police for a number of crimes he committed along with this fellow members. Read more

Instruments in smartphones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability as researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that data from these sensors could be used by hackers to guess the security PIN and unlock it. Read more

The creation of WannaCry and Lurk malware was supervised by the Russian FSB, according to Konstantin Kozlovsky, a hacker earlier arrested in the Lurk case, the Russian independent news network Dozhd reports. Read more

The holiday weekend brought plenty of drama for Cardi B and Offset. On the same day Cardi’s new single “Bartier Cardi” dropped, a video of an unidentified woman dancing naked in a hotel room surfaced online. Offset allegedly filmed the footage one month before he proposed to Cardi, thus setting off a wave of cheating

PERHAPS YOU’VE BEEN hearing strange sounds in your home—ghostly creaks and moans, random Rick Astley tunes, Alexa commands issued in someone else’s voice. Read more

Popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta announces a potential DNS attack and suspends service just days before Bitcoin hit a five-day drop. EtherDelta last week suspended service when cyberattackers allegedly gained temporary access to the company’s DNS servers. Read more

Ancestry’s RootsWeb.com server, which hosts a free genealogical community site, exposed a file containing emails, login information, and passwords of 300,000 users, Ancestry stated in a blog post over the weekend. Read more

The Bank of Israel is considering utilizing digital currencies to speed up payments and reduce cash across the economy, according to a report by Reuters citing a source inside the bank. According to Reuters’ source, while no decision has yet been made and the bank itself has not responded to such reports, the Israeli government