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.
SF News If You Used Dropbox In 2012, Your Password May Have Been Compromised The extent of a previously announced breach of Dropbox user data back in 2012 is now coming to light, and as Motherboard reports, in addition to users' email addresses, passwords were obtained and
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go Crashes After Hacker Attack, Sending Millions Into PokéPanic Pokémon Go players had to go back to interacting with a Pokémon-free world for several hours Saturday after hackers took the mega-popular game out of commission. As ABC 7 reports, this all happened
SF News Feds May Have Paid iPhone Hackers More Than $1.3 Million How much did the FBI pay the "gray hat" hacker or hackers who successfully unlocked the iPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorism case? “A lot,” FBI chief James B. Comey Jr. said
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Techies Credit Strength To German Energy Soda In the popular imagination, hackers and coders subsist on Soylent alone. However, according to a trend piece over at KQED, a new beverage of choice is the source of strength for technologists in
SF News Matthew Keys Found Guilty In LA Times Hacking Case, May Face Jail Time Disgraced social media manager and avid Twitterer Matthew Keys was found guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento of conspiracy in a case dating back to 2013 involving Anonymous and the
SF News Basically Homeless Couple Discovers RV Living 'Rocks,' But Why Are They 'Hackers?' In what SFGate calls an "unusual odyssey out of homelessness," a couple from Los Angeles has, in the words of that blog, "hacked" housing and travel with an RV and a new club
SF News 200 Jerks Hacked To The Front Of The Burning Man Ticket Line When 40,000 passes to Burning Man went on sale last Wednesday, selling out in under an hour, some technically gifted and morally unburdened Burners had already disrupted their way to the front
SF News Were Your Gmail Login Credentials Leaked To A Russian Bitcoin Site? Here's How To Check Nearly five million Gmail usernames and passwords were published on a Russian Bitcoin forum on Tuesday evening, as first reported by international sources including one Russian news agency that claims 60 percent of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller Quizzed About Doing Actual Laundry On Dorky NPR Show French Laundry and Per Se chef Thomas Keller, who has earned three Michelin stars for both of those restaurants, appeared in a quiz segment on the syndicated NPR show "Wait Wait Don't Tell
SF News Two Bitcoin Banks Close After E-Heists; Bitcoin Exchange CEO Commits Suicide In Singapore Though these three incidents are not necessarily interrelated, there has been some major drama in the bitcoin world this past week. First, Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, recently the largest of the existing
SF News Hacker Updates Zuckerberg's Facebook Wall With Extremely Nerdy Status Last week, Palestinian security expert Khalil Shreateh tried to alert Facebook's security team to a hole in the social network's privacy settings, only to be met with tech support crickets. So Shreateh decided
SF News Reuters Reporter Accused Of Conspiring With Anonymous, Hacking L.A. Times Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor with Thomson Reuters, allegedly handed out login information for his former employer the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and other news
SF News Apple Becomes Latest High-Profile Hacking Victim After high profile hacking jobs hit Twitter, Facebook, the New York Times and, uh, Burger King — Apple came out yesterday to admit it too had become the victim of a cyberattack. In their
SF News S.F. Giants Come Out Against Chick-Fil-A [Not Really] Fans of the San Francisco Giants (on Facebook, that is) got a surprisingly political (but timely) message from the team this afternoon. It read: "That Chick-Fil-A guy sure is an asshole." The Facebook
SF News Gay Online Meat Market Grindr Hacked, User Data Compromised Forget about SOPA! Homosexuals across the land should be more than a little concerned this morning as news of a major security breach at Grindr and Blendr reaches the wires. It turns out
SF News Facebook Has New Vanity Street Name: 1 Hacker Way In Silicon Valley, vanity street names by tech mammoths are as common as racial disparity, wasteland boredom, and Chevys. Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and Sun Microsystem used
SF News Facebook Pays Hackers to Break into Facebook Two weeks after hacker group Anonymous threatened to "kill" Facebook for releasing private information of some of their 750 million users to the federal government, the social media monolith has taken to paying
SF News Thousands of iPad Owners Exposed Via AT&T Gaffe A few weeks after Apple lost an iPhone 4 prototype at a South Bay bar, Valleywag reports that over 114,000 iPad owners have had their security leaked. Gawker's Silicon Valley sister site
SF News SMS Bug In Your iPhone Could Prove Disastrous If you receive an iPhone text message with a "single square character," be afraid. Be very afraid. It's could be hackers using a iewly discovered iPhone SMS bug to infiltrate your precious phone.
misc Twitter Hackers Brighten Gloomy Monday Morning 4chan's /b/ board, the tasty bowels of the interwebs, are claiming credit for this morning's Twitter account hackings of two of the most importance forces in the universe: Britney Spears and Fox News.
SF News Seizures Caused By Hackers' Posts On Epilepsy Forum Hackers aren't just money-grubbing and annoying. They're also just plain funny evil. Take, for example, the hackers who recently loaded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to with
