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An "IT army" is amassing on popular messaging platform Telegram, volunteers determined to take down the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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300,000 Volunteer “Hackers” Are Attacking Russian Computer Systems

By Victor Tangermann

After declaring "cyber war against the Russian government" last week, famed Guy Fawkes mask-themed hacker group Anonymous is hacking Russian TV services.
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Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Entire Russian Television Channels Now

By Victor Tangermann

Hacktivist group Anonymous claimed to have taken down websites connected to the Russian government including state sponsored news website Russia Today.
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Hacker Group Anonymous Says It’s Taking Down Russian State Sites

By Tony Ho Tran

An American white hat hacker managed to disrupt the internet connection of North Korea — while wearing pajamas, eating chips, and watching "Alien."
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Hacker Wearing Pajama Pants Brings Down North Korea’s Entire Internet

By Victor Tangermann

As the Russian military are gathering forces near the Ukrainian border, a hacktivist group claims they hacked a Belarusian railway system.
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Hackers Trying to Prevent War by Disrupting Railway Used by Russian Military

By Tony Ho Tran

A massive cache of pirated movies, TV shows, sporting events, video games, and more have begun appearing as publicly-accessible PDFs on USDA.gov.
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Someone Appears to Have Hacked the USDA’s Website to Share Pirated Movies

By Tony Ho Tran

New data published this week about demographics in China show the country's population may level off and then begin to shrink as families have less babies.
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Data Shows That China’s Population Is About to Start Actively Shrinking

By Lonnie Lee Hood

At this point, you really gotta wonder whether investing in cryptocurrencies is even worth it. 
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Wildly Overconfident Crypto.com Bros Admit That Hackers Stole $30 Million of Its Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the era of COVID-19, governments conducting their business over Zoom is par for the course — and, naturally, so is Zoom-bombing porn into them. 
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Hackers Force Nobel Prize Winning Physicist to Watching Hentai

By Noor Al-Sibai

A "decentralized autonomous organization" called CityDAO was hoping to turn 40 acres in Wyoming into a crypto city — but they got hacked.
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Hackers Plunder “Cryptocurrency City” That Had Promised “Dank Memes”

By Victor Tangermann

After an extremely sad online-only relaunch, RadioShack is gasping for relevancy by launching a cryptocurrency exchange for rich old people.
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Boomers Rejoice: RadioShack is Making Crypto for Old People

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers targeted one of the largest cream cheese manufacturers in the United States and the results have been a schmear nightmare. 
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Hackers Are The Reason There’s Not Enough Cream Cheese Right Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers have stolen almost $200 million from the BitMart cryptocurrency exchange, the latest in a long line of heists, headaches, and heartbreak for those who invest and trade in crypto. 
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Hackers Just Stole Nearly $200 Million from a Crypto Exchange, in the Second Heist in Two Weeks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yikes: Complex reports that Jay-Z was warned by the FBI that he was soon to fall victim to an "imminent hack," and urged to delete his emails.
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FBI Warned Jay-Z of ‘Imminent’ Email Hack

By Noor Al-Sibai

A journalist says a hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — even though he never clicked on any links.
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iPhones Can Apparently Now Be Hacked Just By Texting Them

By Tony Ho Tran

A 14-year-old high school student and white hat hacker rickrolled their entire school district by hacking into the school's internet-connected devices.
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Teen Hacks School Computer System, Rickrolls Entire School District

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook is down. Which means misinformation about the cause of the outage has hit Twitter hard, including dubious reports of a Facebook leak.
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Fact Check: Is Facebook Down Because 1.5 Billion Users’ Data Was Stolen?

By Victor Tangermann

A 2012 study co-authored by famed behavioral scientist Dan Ariely about honesty was more than likely based on falsified data, according to an investigation.
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Scientists Studying Honesty Used Fabricated Data

By Victor Tangermann

Electric car charging stations and smart home chargers are extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to new research.
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Electric Vehicle Chargers Are Shockingly Vulnerable to Hacking

By Victor Tangermann

A WHO advisory committee recommended against letting researchers gene-hack superhumans or other augmentative edits, urging an emphasis on medicine instead.
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WHO Says Gene-Hacking Superhumans Should Be Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

The US Department of Justice is prioritizing its investigations into ransomware attacks that have ground several industries in the country to a halt.
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US Authorities Start Treating Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers managed to force the shutdown of all the US-based beef plants of the world's largest meat producer JBS SA, according to Bloomberg.
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Hackers Shut Down Almost a Quarter of the US Beef Supply

By Victor Tangermann

A new gene therapy partially restored a blind man's vision by programming his cells to produce the light-sensitive protein found in algae.
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Doctors Restored a Blind Man’s Vision by Gene-Hacking His Retina Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.
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Blockchains Were Supposed to Be “Unhackable.” Now They’re Getting Hacked.

By Victor Tangermann

Vladimir Putin is reportedly terrified of far-fetched genetic weaponry, so security was his top priority when creating a national genetics research program.
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Vladimir Putin Is Reportedly Terrified of Gene-Hacking Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

Game developer CD Projekt Red, creator of video games including Cyberpunk 2077, became the victim of a targeted cyberattack.
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Hackers Apparently Stole the “Cyberpunk 2077” Source Code

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker remotely accessed a computer of Oldsmar, Florida's water treatment system and attempted to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide or lye 100 fold.
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Hacker Infiltrates Water Treatment Plant, Attempts to Poison City

By Victor Tangermann

A developer has taken the extensive amount of data uploaded to Parler during the Capitol riots on January 6 and turned it into an interactive map.
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Leaked Parler Data Contains Stunning Details About Capitol Attack

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft claims Russian and North Korean hackers are trying to get a hold of COVID-19 vaccine data using brute force attacks and phishing lures.
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Microsoft Claims Russia and North Korea Hacked COVID Vaccine Data

By Victor Tangermann

Hacker Says He Got Into Trump’s Twitter Account
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Hacker Says He Got Into Trump’s Twitter Account

By Victor Tangermann

To fight climate change, experts suggest gene-hacking plants and animals to cut emissions and better sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
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Report: Gene-Hacking Plants and Animals Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice. The technique could also work in humans.
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Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Seemingly Cure Herpes in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.
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A Private Equity Firm Just Bought the Largest Consumer DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

UK authorities issued a warning on Thursday, claiming that Russian hackers with ties to the Kremlin have been targeting coronavirus vaccine research.
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State-Backed Russian Hackers Are Targeting Coronavirus Vaccine Research

By Victor Tangermann

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.
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Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

Many countries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic are tapping citizens' phone data to track the outbreak — and enforce quarantine.
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A Growing Number of Countries Tap Phone Data to Track COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers are creating their own coronavirus maps to infect users with malware, stealing sensitive data including credit card numbers in the process.
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Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Maps to Spread Malware

By Victor Tangermann

Man Sues Amazon, Claims Ring Camera Hackers Harassed His Kids
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Man Sues Amazon, Claims Ring Camera Hackers Harassed His Kids

By Kristin Houser

On Friday, OurMine's hackers took over the Instagram and Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook in an apparent effort to drum up business.
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Hackers Hijack Facebook’s Twitter, Instagram Accounts

By Kristin Houser

When the FBI raided the home of a man suspected of hacking Nintendo servers, they found a folder directory containing child pornography on his electronics.
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Idiot Hacks Nintendo Servers, Gets Caught With Child Pornography

By Kristin Houser

The United Nations (UN) was the target of a sophisticated hack in the summer of 2019, according to a newly leaked internal report.
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Someone Hacked Dozens of United Nations Servers

By Kristin Houser

A group calling itself OurMine hacked the official social media accounts of the National Football League and 15 NFL teams.
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Hacker Group Seizes Twitter, Facebook Accounts of 15 NFL Teams

By Kristin Houser

A team of cybersecurity researchers discovered a data breach in a platform used by multiple U.S. marijuana dispensaries to manage sales.
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30,000 Marijuana Buyers’ Personal Info Exposed in Data Breach

By Kristin Houser

A new report has found that Grindr, Tinder, and other dating apps have been covertly selling users' sensitive information to third-party companies.
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Researchers: Grindr and Tinder Are Selling Your Personal Data

By Kristin Houser

Two more United States websites have been hacked to display pro-Iranian propaganda, though it's still unclear whether Iran itself is behind the attacks.
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Two More US Sites Hacked With Pro-Iran Propaganda

By Kristin Houser

The United States Navy bans its members from using short video sharing app TikTok on their government-issued mobile devices.
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Navy Bans TikTok, Calling It a “Cybersecurity Threat”

By Kristin Houser

New Orleans is the latest city to be targeted by ransomware hackers, but after a weekend-long emergency response, it seems to be back to normal.
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New Orleans Declares State of Emergency Due to Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Creeps have used Ring cameras to hack into customers' homes, using the internet-connected cameras to spy on and harass families and children.
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Watch Terrifying Creeps Hack Ring Cameras and Spy on Families

By Dan Robitzski

An American biotech firm claims it can slow or reverse human aging through gene-hacking, but the entire premise is scientificially questionable.
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Gene-Hacking Company Says It Can Slow Your Aging for $1 Million

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers were advertising thousands of stolen and hacked Disney+ accounts and credentials online within hours of the streaming service's launch.
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Hackers Are Already Selling Stolen Disney+ Accounts

By Kristin Houser

Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.
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Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website

By Kristin Houser

The White House cybersecurity team is in turmoil, according to an internal memo in which a senior member announces his resignation.
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A Top White House Cybersecurity Director Just Quit In Disgust

By Kristin Houser

The New York Times (NYT) fired its Senior Director of Information Security and eliminated the position, leaving reporters to defend themselves from hackers.
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The NYT Fired the Person Who Protects Its Reporters From Hackers

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers managed to extend the lifespan of lab mice significantly, making them live longer by cultivating embryonic cells without genetic modification.
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Scientists Made Mice Live 12% Longer by Hacking Their Telomeres

By Victor Tangermann

A Dutch sex worker website has been hacked, with the thief getting away with the email addresses and other data of more than 250,000 users.
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Sex Worker Website Hacked, Details on 250,000+ Users Now for Sale

By Kristin Houser

Cybercriminals have use a bit of malicious code to hack the official Sesame Street online store — and potentially 20,000 other e-commerce sites.
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Criminals Hacked the “Sesame Street” Store, Stole Credit Card Info

By Kristin Houser

Scientists figured out how to breed hornless bulls by editing their genes, providing a painless alternative to horn-removing procedures.
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Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Breed Hornless Bulls

By Dan Robitzski

This Silicon-Valley based psychiatrist wants people to take a break from over-stimulation through "dopamine hacking." Some have already taken it too far.
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Silicon Valley’s Nutty New Health Craze: “Dopamine Hacking”

By Victor Tangermann

When scientists released gene-hacked mosquitoes into the wild population in Jacobino, Brazil, they thought it would quell the bugs. They had no such luck.
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Gene-Hacking Mosquitoes to Be Infertile Backfired Spectacularly

By Dan Robitzski

A non-profit group called Privacy International found that mental health-focused websites in Europe are selling user data to third-party advertisers.
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Mental Health Sites Sell Your Psychological Data to Advertisers

By Dan Robitzski

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.
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Google Uncovers Massive, Multi-Year iPhone Hacking Effort

By Kristin Houser

A smart doorbell home security video surfaced that allegedly shows two UK thieves hacking into a Tesla and driving away in just 30 seconds.
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Video Shows Thieves Hacking, Stealing a Tesla in Just 30 Seconds

By Victor Tangermann

A Bulgarian hacker took control of the country's tax agency and also hijacked the sprinkler system outside of Parliament.
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Hackers Seize Control of Bulgarian Tax Agency, Sprinkler System

By Dan Robitzski

The source of a major Capital One data breach is now in federal custody after authorities were able to track the hacker down via her own social media posts.
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Capital One Hacker Arrested After Bragging About Theft on Twitter

By Kristin Houser