Feb 13
There’s a modder out there by the name of MGX, a fellow who appears to have made it his life’s work to modify the game NBA 2K13 and NBA 2K14 … Continue reading
Feb 11
Snapchat accounts are being hacked. Smoothie pics are getting sent. It’s a good time to change those passwords.
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Feb 11
Kaspersky security researchers just revealed their discovery of a cyberespionage threat they say could be the most advanced in the world. Immensely powerful and hard to detect, it’s been active since at least 2007, targeting governments, embassies, and energy companies. And nobody knows where it came from.
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Feb 10
When you own a company specializing in online payments, the constant threat of hackers and phishing schemes is an inescapable part of the job description. So it’s hard not to experience a little schadenfreude in the fact that PayPal President David Marcus’s credit card information got swiped recently and taken on a bit of a shopping spree. Oh, sweet irony.
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Feb 09
Anyone who has any experience with swipe and sign cards knows exactly how they’re charged by a merchant. Your card is taken, swiped and then a receipt is printed, which you sign and then collect your card and receipt before going on your way again. That’s the way it has been in the U.S. for a long, long time, even though many countries in the world have now transitioned to using chip-based cards, which don’t require signatures, users just have to enter their PINs to authorize transactions. Its highly likely that swipe and sign cards may not work after October 2015, since that’s the deadline both Visa and MasterCard have chosen to complete the switch to chip-based cards.
Swipe And Sign Cards May Not Work After October 2015 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 07
Snapchat vulnerability opens iPhone users to disabling attack, says researchers
Posted in: Today's ChiliSnapchat has had a rough few months, what with the massive scraping of its users’ information and such. The latest headache for the company comes in the form of a … Continue reading
Feb 07
For the PC version of Call of Duty: Ghosts, it would appear that Infinity Ward has had enough of the hacking nonsense that’s been running rampant for weeks. To make … Continue reading
Feb 06
A hacking group by the name of NullCrew FTS has wreaked havoc today on Comcast servers. The company provides cable television, telephone service, broadband internet to customers in 40 states, and happens to be the largest cable company and home ISP in the U.S. It goes without saying that millions of people use Comcast’s various services, people who trust the company with their data, which now may potentially be at risk. The group has hacked into 34 Comcast mail services, and according to them, all fell to one single exploit.
Comcast Servers Hacked, User Data Potentially At Risk original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 05
New documents leaked by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News suggest that the UK’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a DDoS attack on the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.
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Feb 04
Today, a report from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Minority Committee offered an overview of the fed’s current state of cybersecurity. And how is the government with which we entrust our most sensitive and private information looking? In short—bad. Very, very bad.
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