Business & Tech Facebook Remains Bad at Restoring Peoples' Hacked Accounts If this has happened to you, then you know what an incredible pain it is to get Meta to help you get your account back. And some states' attorneys general are pushing back.
Business & Tech One SF Engineer Might Have Just Saved the World From a Massive Cyberattack A 38-year-old software engineer for Microsoft was apparently curious, eagle-eyed, and lucky enough to have discovered a pernicious bit of code in the widely used Linux operating system, that someone, somewhere, had gone to some lengths to hide.
SF News BART Police Files Reportedly Leaked By Hackers, Now On Dark Web Numerous news organizations are reporting that BART police files have been hacked and posted onto the dark web, including allegations of child abuse against officers, and perhaps your information if you’ve ever been cited by BART Police for a crime.
Business & Tech Apple and Facebook Both Duped By Hackers Posing as Law Enforcement, Handed Over Personal Data Phone numbers, home addresses, and (yikes!) internet browsing histories have been handed right over to hackers who approached tech companies while posing as police, and what’s more, most of the hackers were teenagers.
Business & Tech International Hackers Have Breached Nine Organizations, Says Bay Area Cybersecurity Firm At least one U.S. company, but probably more, is among several firms that a Santa Clara-based cybersecurity firm says has been infiltrated via some sort of password theft scheme that appears to be targeting the Department of Defense.
Business & Tech Tesla Successfully Thwarts Russian Ransomware Attack A Tesla employee succeeded in thwarting a recent attempted malware hack of its computer systems, after bringing the attempt quickly to the attention of company brass and the FBI.
Business & Tech Feds Announce Charges Against Three People In Twitter Hack, Including Florida Man and Juvenile The major hacking and data breach at Twitter two weeks ago has already produced three alleged culprits, and federal authorities on Friday announced charges against the three, as well as the online moniker of a hacker still at large who is believed to have been the mastermind.
Business & Tech Twitter Mulls A Paid Subscription Model, As Congress Calls Jack Dorsey In To Testify Fresh off a highly embarrassing data breach, Twitter would like your credit card information — but Congressional Republicans want to grill Jack Dorsey first.
Arts & Entertainment 'Hacked' Is the Dry Bay Area Hacker Movie Spoof We Didn't Know We Needed A couple of local filmmakers have just delivered a short film that takes the late-90s/early aughts genre and parodies with Amazon and contemporary SF tech culture as the objects of its dry humor.
Business & Tech Hackers Seize Jack Dorsey's Twitter, Make Bomb Threats, Praise Hitler Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
SF News Huge Security Flaw Means Nearly Every WiFi Device In The World Is Vulnerable To Hijacking, Eavesdropping A security researcher has determined that nearly every WiFi device in the world — your phone, your computer, your router, and on and on — has a flaw in their security protocol that makes them
SF News Disqus Reports Breach Affecting 17.5 Million Pre-2012 Users We’ve brought you plenty of troubling hacking news here at SFist recently, from the Yahoo email account hacks to the recent Whole Foods breach to, you know, that thing that got Donald
SF News Hackers Steal Credit Card Info From Several Bay Area Whole Foods Stores If you used your credit card at a Whole Foods restaurant or taproom in the Bay Area recently, then you should keep an eye on your recent transactions, as a data breach may
SF News Yahoo Hack From 2013 Actually Impacted All 3 Billion Accounts Highlighting just how complicated it's apparently been, even internally, to sort out the major breach of Yahoo from 2013 that was only first revealed to the public 10 months ago, Yahoo's new parent
SF News Adobe Is Finally Killing Off Flash, Giving It Until 2020 To Choke And Die One of the internet's most hated and annoying bits of software, and one that endlessly needs updating due to security holes being endlessly exploited by bad guys, is finally going to die a
SF News The Mom And Pop Company Behind The Netflix Leak Reveal How They Got Hacked And Blackmailed It's safe to say that last Christmas was completely ruined for Rick and Jill Larson of Larson Studios, a small, family-run, Hollywood-based audio post-production business for big-name television shows. In an exclusive obtained
SF News Malware Stolen From The NSA Cripples Computers In 74 Countries (And Counting) #WannaCry #ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world via @Securelist https://t.co/zh012F9lCC pic.twitter.com/UzJVqUwbT6— Kaspersky Lab (@kaspersky) May 12, 2017 Ransomware leaked by hackers and stolen originally
SF News One Million Gmail Accounts Compromised In Phishing Attack, Here's How To Protect Yours Fear, anxiety, and mockery of people who fall for phishing attacks ran rampant on the World Wide Web Wednesday, as a phenomenally sophisticated and fast-moving phishing attack disguised a Google Doc made its
Arts & Entertainment Hacker Steals Upcoming Season Of 'Orange Is The New Black,' Releases Most Of It Online After Ransom Isn't Paid Those who engage in illegal file-sharing on pirating sites can already watch the first 10 episodes of Orange Is the New Black Season 5, thanks to a hacker using the handle "thedarkoverlord." Netflix
SF News Hackers On Twitter Send Out Swastikas From Major Accounts Like UNICEF, BBC, British Parliament This isn't good, right? pic.twitter.com/nvxWYAutsO— Rob Lopez (@R0BaTO) March 15, 2017 Dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts from the European Parliament, BBC North America, Duke University, and other institutions were briefly
SF News Abortion Access Hackathon Moves Fast, Breaks Patriarchy “If you have not done a lot of tweeting about abortion before, you’re in for it,” Bay Area journalist Andrea Grimes said in her opening remarks to this weekend’s Abortion Access
SF News Beware Of Sophisticated Gmail Phishing Email That Makes You Log In Again Gmail users need to be on alert for an email that looks like an email from a friend but which is actually a savvy phishing scheme that not only your grandmother will fall
SF News Muni Hacker Hacked, Turns Out He's Extorted Ransoms From Multiple US Companies While questions persist about how much and what kind of data was compromised in the hack of some 2,000 SFMTA computers last weekend, a network security researcher says that he successfully hacked
SF News [Update] Muni Hacked For 100 Bitcoin, Questions Arise About What Data Was Compromised The hacker responsible for all those free Muni rides over the weekend is asking for 100 bitcoin (about $73,000) in exchange for unlocking the affected Muni computers, as the Examiner found out
SF News Russian Man Accused In LinkedIn, Dropbox Hacks Arrested In Prague An accused Russian hacker who is thought to be behind several high-profile data breaches at LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring was arrested by US authorities and Interpol earlier this month while vacationing in Prague.
