Google sounds alarm after 2.5B users exposed — says hacking group breached accounts successfully. What to do ASAP to protect yourself

Google revealed that a cybercriminal group known as the ShinyHunters hacked a database of their accounts through the ...
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Minn. experts warn of phone hacking

ST. PAUL, Minn. - She owns one of the most well-known chocolate stores in the area, but what happened recently to Just Truffles owner, Kathleen O'Hehir-Johnson was news to her. What happened? A hacker ...
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iPhone users experience massive hacking attack: How to protect your smartphone

Scammers are using a new scheme to hack Apple IDs: a fake email from Apple is sent to the victim warning about an impending account suspension. It contains a misleading link leading to a counterfeit ...
The Verge

Phone hacking companies are overstating their capabilities.

Law enforcement agencies — including the FBI, which unlocked the Trump rally shooter’s phone — use these mobile forensics tools to break into suspects’ devices. But despite Cellebrite claiming its ...
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What’s worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, ...
Yahoo

Adolescence writer on new phone-hacking drama: 'It's a celebration of journalists who called out their own industry'

David Tennant (pictured left, in The Hack), plays the real-life Guardian journalist Nick Davies (right, in 2011) [ITV/PA Media] Writer Jack Thorne has praised the "remarkable" journalists who exposed ...
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ICE Doesn't Want You To Know Why They Bought a Phone Cracking System

The post ICE Doesn't Want You To Know Why They Bought a Phone Cracking System appeared first on Reason.com. Rodney Brooks ...
The New York Times

China’s Hacking Reached Deep Into U.S. Telecoms

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks that connect systems. By David E. Sanger ...
LAist

Prince Harry gets a partial win in phone hacking case

He says he's been hounded by the paparazzi for his whole life. But today, Prince Harry won a victory against the British tabloids. A court in London has ruled the prince was a victim of phone hacking ...
Mashable

FBI took 2 days to hack Trump rally shooter's phone. Did they find anything?

On Monday, the FBI issued a press statement revealing that it gained access to the password-protected phone of Thomas Matthew Crook, the shooter behind an assassination attempt on former president ...
Washington Times

What’s worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too

WASHINGTON — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn’t make calls or texts. That, though, ...