More Destructive 2014 Hacks Home Depot – And You Thought Target Was Bad Home Depot now feels the pain of Neiman Marcus, Michael’s, and Target. The hardware box store chain revealed in September that it had been hacked, compromising the payment card numbers of 56 million people – 10 million more than were stolen from Target. Jennifer Lawrence Naked – Don’t Look, You Creeps Hackers ran roughshod on Jennifer Lawrence’s genitals in September, posting pictures of them for everyone to see. 4chan users released more than 500 images supposedly sourced from 100 iCloud accounts of media stars, in what some are calling “The Fappening.” Naked photos of Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, and others were included in the collection. Snapsaved – They Had It Coming Let me get this straight: They come out with an application that allows you to send messages that disappear after just a few seconds of viewing. You think to yourself, “You know what I should do? I should start saving this data from all these users who clearly don’t want the data to be saved, because that’s how messed up my head is! I demand an application to save these things!” Twitter – Never Going to Let You Down An Austrian teenager found a bug in TweetDeck, a separate and widely-used Twitter software that helps tweet-hounds manage their newsfeeds. Many people responded by taking advantage of the opportunity to be a puppetmaster, turning the BBC and other Twitter users into their sock puppets. The teen discovered that he could send JavaScript in a tweet that would create pop-up alerts seen by other users or allow re-tweeting of messages through their accounts. People who exploited the vulnerability were mostly fooling around, writing retweet messages such as “Yo!” and the straightforward rickroll, “Never going to give you up, never going to let you down.” The teen figured out the vulnerability when he attempted to tweet a symbol of a heart. When his joyride was over, 30,000 accounts had retweeted his heart message...
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:50:20 +0000
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