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In an effort to combat balding, a team of scientists claims to have successfully gene-hacked mouse stem cells to stimulate hair growth.

Gene Hacking Offers Hope for Regrowing Bald Guys’ Hair

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that hackers have compromised the University of Arizona's website and posted a bunch of stuff a Southeast Asian online casino.

Someone Has Apparently Hacked the University of Arizona’s Website

By Noor Al-Sibai

Vow, an Australian cultured meat company, wants you to know that it's made a meatball out of mammoth meat which may or may not be tasty.

Gene Hackers Create Meatball From Resurrected Mammoth Meat

By Frank Landymore

Dr. David Peterson argues that if we are indeed living in a computer simulation of reality, we can probably hack it — by submitting feature requests.

A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

Swatting is bad enough, but now, these sorts of dangerous trolls are using Ring cameras to make this crime that much worse.

Fiends Allegedly Swatted Victims, Use Hacked Ring Cameras to Livestream It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter alternative Hive Social has had to pull all of its servers offline in light of some serious security vulnerabilities.

Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users’ Private Messages

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers gained access to Apple News push notifications via a business magazine — and sent out a trollish, racist push notification that's as juvenile as it is offensive.

Hackers Send “Incredibly Offensive” Alert to Apple News Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

The hacking collective Anonymous is targeting the Iranian government amid widespread citizen protests sparked by the alleged murder of Mahsa Amini.

Anonymous Hacks Iran After Woman Allegedly Killed by “Morality Police”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When a self-proclaimed hacker announced that it had breached Uber's security, some other ride-sharing company's employees seemed to think it was a joke.

Uber Hack Was So Huge Employees Thought It Was a Prank

By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular parent-teacher app Seesaw was hacked, and bad actors sent a horribly explicit, NSFW meme to unassuming users.

Parent-Teacher Messaging App Hacked to Send Mom and Dad Horrifying Images

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using gene modification techniques, a team of researchers have come up with a new promising way to treat balding, a condition experienced by millions.

Scientists Are Working on a Gene-Hacking Drug That Could Treat Baldness

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers are using James Webb Space Telescope image files to spread malware on Windows computers, according to cybersecurity firm Securonix.

Devious Hackers Are Hiding Malware in a James Webb Image

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks

Japanese Government Says Employees Will Stop Saving Official Data on Floppy Disks

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers are using never-before-seen methods to bypass email security measures to read and download messages and attachments.

North Korean Hackers Are Reportedly Going After Gmail Accounts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Famed hacktivist sect Anonymous claims to have deleted incredibly revealing — and now, potentially criminalizing — data from unnamed period tracking apps.

Anonymous Says It’s Hacking Databases to Protect Women Who Get Abortions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gaggle of hackers has decided to take the US Supreme Court's sudden and devastating reversal of landmark decision Roe vs. Wade into their own hands.

Hackers Declare War on Anti-Abortion States

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russian news outlets are accusing Ukrainian IT hackers of DDoS attacks on their government alcohol sales servers. Is it true?

Ukrainian Hackers Allegedly Cut Off Russian Soldiers’ Beloved Vodka Supply

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to a leaked document obtained by Motherboard, Facebook has no idea where the data it collects goes — or what it's even doing with it.

Facebook Admits It Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Private Data

By Victor Tangermann

A hacker called Los Pelaos posted bizarre video to Justin Bieber, Travis Scott, Taylor Swift and other official celebrity YouTube acconts for Paco Sanz.

A Hacker Just Stole Justin Bieber’s YouTube Channel and Uploaded Something Truly Bizarre

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hackers have been forging emergency legal requests to get personal information from both Facebook parent company Meta and tech giant Apple.

Oops! Apple and Facebook Gave Personal Data to Hackers Claiming to be Police

By Victor Tangermann

Government-backed North Korean hackers are likely behind a hack aimed at more than 300 people that used a Google Chrome zero-day vulnerability to exploit.

North Korea Launches Wave of Hacks Directed at US Companies

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Does one need any more proof that indie sleaze is back in vogue?

Grimes Says She Got Hackers to Shut Down a Blog She Didn’t Like

By Noor Al-Sibai

A deepfake video of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenksy calling on Ukrainian troops to surrender reportedly made it onto a hacked Ukrainian news site.

Hackers Deepfaked a Video of the Ukrainian President Telling His Soldiers to Surrender

By Victor Tangermann

An "IT army" is amassing on popular messaging platform Telegram, volunteers determined to take down the government of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Claims Russia and North Korea Hacked COVID Vaccine Data

By Victor Tangermann

Hacker Says He Got Into Trump’s Twitter Account

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hackers Are Using Coronavirus Maps to Spread Malware

By Victor Tangermann

Man Sues Amazon, Claims Ring Camera Hackers Harassed His Kids

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.

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.

Idiot Hacks Nintendo Servers, Gets Caught With Child Pornography

By Kristin Houser