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2024 CrowdStrike incident. Multiple blue screens of death caused by a faulty software update on baggage carousels at LaGuardia Airport, New York City. Date. 19 July 2024. Location. Worldwide. Type. IT outage, computer crash.
Twin Eagles Group (TEG) was a Peruvian scener group founded in 1989. [1] It originally produced hacked games for the Commodore 64, [2] and would eventually modify games for video game consoles such as the SNES and Nintendo 64.
Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software generally involves circumventing ...
In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux utility xz within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan". [b][2] The backdoor gives an attacker who possesses a specific Ed448 private key remote code execution capabilities on the affected Linux system.
The post “It’s Free”: 64 Hacks People Often Don’t Realize Are Life’s “Cheat Codes” first appeared on Bored Panda. ... September 10, 2024 at 2:33 AM.
Ophcrack is a free open-source (GPL licensed) program that cracks Windows log-in passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables.The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows, and can be run via the command line or using the program’s GUI (Graphical user interface).
CanSecWest Applied Security Conference. Pwn2Own is a computer hacking contest held annually at the CanSecWest security conference. [ 1 ] First held in April 2007 in Vancouver, [ 2 ] the contest is now held twice a year, [ 3 ] most recently in March 2024. [ 4 ] Contestants are challenged to exploit widely used software [ 5 ] and mobile devices ...
June 5: The social networking website LinkedIn has been hacked and the passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts are stolen by cybercriminals. As a result, a United States grand jury indicted Nikulin and three unnamed co-conspirators on charges of aggravated identity theft and computer intrusion.