SF News Berkeley Teenager Arrested for Alleged Widespread Revenge Porn and Blackmail Scheme Involving Snapchat A 19-year-old former Berkeley High School student was arrested earlier this week in connection with an alleged hacking and blackmail scheme involving nude photos of underage girls, some of whom he went to school with.
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 Ex-Googler Launches Nonprofit To Stop Google & Facebook From 'Hijacking Our Minds' It is not a particularly unique observation that the culture of constantly looking at our phones has spawned an app economy whose emotional manipulation, trampling of our privacy, and spread of misinformation has
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 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
SF News Racist Hacker Forced UC Berkeley Printers To Print Swastikas UC Berkeley, along with other colleges across the country, was on the receiving end of notoriously racist hacker Weev's malicious boredom last week. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer, forced a hoard
SF News Barnaby Jack, Notorious ATM Hacker, Dies In S.F. At Age 35 Barnaby Jack, a hacker who claimed he could stop a man's heart from 300 feet away by exploiting a flaw in medical implants, died Thursday in San Francisco at age 35. Jack was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tech Folk Are Now Disrupting Your Dinner Reservations Too After winning national acclaim from James Beard and Bon Appetit, it's no surprise that a table at State Bird Provisions has been notoriously hard to get in the past few months. However, those
SF News Reuters Social Media Editor Matthew Keys Fired For Poor Social Media Behavior [Updated] Matthew Keys, most recently the deputy social media editor for Reuters, was fired today following last month's accusations that he had conspired with Anonymous hackers to gain access to Tribune Company computers and
SF News Reuters Reporter Matthew Keys Will Fight Hacking Accusations, Says Lawyer According to the New York attorney hired to represent him, Matthew Keys maintains he is innocent of charges claiming he helped members of Anonymous gain access to computers owned by the Tribune Company
SF News Reuters Suspends Reporter Accused Of Conspiracy, Hacking L.A. Times Matthew Keys, the Thomson Reuters employee accused of conspiring with members of the Anonymous hacker collective, has been suspended by the noted media company. Reuters reporters Joseph Menn and Dan Levine filed their
SF News Oops: Twitter Accidentally Reset Too Many Passwords After mistakenly resetting the passwords of a large number of accounts, Twitter sent out emails to scores of users today. Now, Twitter wasn't hacked. Like most Internet companies, the San Francisco-based social media
SF News Listen To Tech Writer Recount Dreadful Post-Hack Stress Wired Gadget Lab’s senior writer Mat Honan's digital life was hacked last week. In addition to a detailed article on Monday, he also gave a rather jarring interview about what happened and
