hackers Archives - Mike South

Twitter Hacker’s Hearing Got Hacked

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 03:46:07 +0000

Last Friday a 17-year-old Florida hacker was arrested and charged as the mastermind behind the bitcoin scam that ensnared the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple, and more. He posed as a member of Twitter’s IT department, in the ultimate phishing scheme, and used Twitter’s own admin tools to […]

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Hackers display porn on railway station billboard in Kalmar, Sweden

Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:38:28 +0000

For about 15 minutes on Thursday afternoon, during maintenance of an interactive display in the city of Kalmar, Sweden, the usual adverts and videos were replaced by explicit images from an adult website. “We got information from a bus driver that someone had put pornographic imagery on one of our displays,” Karl-Johan Bodell, traffic director […]

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Hacked Boca del Río, Mexico Highway Billboard Displays PornHub

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:49:55 +0000

Drivers immediately took out their phones and began recording the unlikely occurrence Highway motorists in Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico were surprised to see adult video website PornHub playing on a billboard last week. The X-rated footage appeared on the screen following a reported hack, and soon images of the roadside screen spread on social media. […]

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Porn video plays all night on hacked screens at Auckland sportswear store

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:55:47 +0000

A sportswear store in New Zealand is apologizing after hackers apparently hijacked its public-facing promotional screens to display porn in Auckland’s busy shopping district. The incident happened at Asics, a Japanese-owned retailer, on Auckland’s Queen Street early Sunday morning. The video aired on a screen above the store’s sign between 1 a.m. and 10 a.m., witnesses told […]

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Hackers interrupt live California candidates’ debate with gay porn

Tue, 22 May 2018 18:55:58 +0000

This story reminds me of the movie “Used Cars” — Robert Zemeckis’ fist film, starring Kurt Russell and the great Jack Warden — except those characters were car salesman-turned-hackers who interrupted a football game with a live TV commercial for their pre-owned car lot. And then there was the time that hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of […]

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