GizModo VR

JUNE 21, 2021

On some level, all of us are waiting for the big one—the hack that downs the internet, paralyzes infrastructure, maybe launches a couple nukes. If that day never arrives, it will be largely thanks to the legions of malefactors who, over the years, have hacked this or that government or corporation and thus forced… Read more.

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Mashable VR

MAY 22, 2022

Russia — a nation that has famously been on the offensive when it comes to cyber attacks — is now facing its own barrage of hacks as multiple sanctions hit the country from the West. The state-owned news agency, TASS , reported that Putin called the anti-Russia sanctions failures.

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

This clever Android screen hack will allow you to multi-task on your smartphone or tablet like you would with a desktop computer.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 4, 2021

In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been hacked by someone earlier this week. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 22, 2022

Proving that nothing is sacred, some a **e recently hacked the website for the National Spelling Bee and stole personal information from the site’s users. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. The post Hacking the Oculus Quest: how to show Android Settings, Alarm and more! I’ve made some interesting discoveries, and of course, I want to share them with you, the VR community!

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GizModo VR

MARCH 8, 2021

These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. businesses and governments, primarily to… Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Serving up some pretty classic hack & slash action, Sola’s main weapon is the scythe, which is used for slashing and stabbing combos, but also lets her climb vertically on coarse surfaces and sharply change directions midair.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The National Rifle Association has reportedly been hacked. A cybercriminal gang claims to have stolen the much maligned gun lobby’s data and has been posting samples of it to the internet. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 5, 2021

Microsoft announced this week that another one of its email products, Exchange, had been compromised by a hacking campaign. This recent hack is actually totally unrelated to the “SolarWinds” one, in which Microsoft has also played an outsized role. Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 15, 2022

If you have an iPhone photo library with hundreds or thousands of images in it, use this photo search hack to find individual pictures quickly.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Someone hacked into and temporarily defaced the website of former President Donald Trump on Monday, weirdly embedding a YouTube video of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan onto one of the site’s pages. Read more.

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Slashgear

MARCH 24, 2022

A 16-year-old UK teen may be one of the masterminds behind Lapsus$, the hacking group that allegedly raked in millions and targeted major tech companies.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 19, 2022

The National Rifle Association (NRA) has just said for the very first time that, yes, the organization was indeed treaded on when it became victim of a massive hack last year. The NRA blamed the hack for the disparity. Ransomware hacks can be detrimental to an organization. It's too bad this wasn't one of those cases.

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Slashgear

MAY 8, 2022

Most iPhone "hacks" are obvious things everyone already knows, but not this one. TikTok has unearthed a simple shortcut for rapidly sharing images.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 10, 2021

But Flipper Zero, a pocket-sized, dolphin-themed hacking tool, can actually open NFD-based locks, hack access points, and even send keyboard commands to unsuspecting laptops and PCs. This strange little device may look unassuming—after all, it’s a nod to William Gibson’s famous cybernetic dolphin, Jones. Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 8, 2022

Microsoft said that it had intercepted yet another string of Russian hacking attempts , this one coming from military spies targeting a wide range of think tanks, media orgs, and government institutions across Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Twitter claimed it was reversing course late Thursday and would no longer forbid users from tweeting links to websites containing hacked material—so long as the hackers themselves weren’t the ones doing the sharing. “We We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Mike Parson’s wacky but chilling public persecution of a journalist he accused of “hacking” a state education website has thankfully been put to an end. Despite all the ruckus, apparently Parson still does not know what hacking actually means. Missouri Gov. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For years, the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group has sparked fear and fascination throughout the international community via its hacking tools—the likes of which have been sold to authoritarian governments throughout the world and used against journalists, activists, politicians, and anybody else unfortunate enough to… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Someone recently hacked and attempted to extort Robinhood, the popular investment and trading platform, gaining access to millions of customers’ email addresses and full names in the process. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Uber has been hacked and boy does it look bad. The hacker, which boasted of their achievements via Telegram this week, claims to be an 18-year-old who allegedly gained such liberal access to the tech giant’s network that they were able to Slack the Uber workforce and post a picture of a dick on the company’s internal… Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The website of Russia's state-owned news agency TASS appears to have been hacked on Monday, with an anti-war message taking over the homepage amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. reported a DDoS attack , and hacks were reported by outlets Takie Dela , national daily newspaper Kommersant, independent media platform Znak.com , and E1.ru.

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Slashgear

JUNE 27, 2022

Your Steam account might get hacked, but there are ways to recover it and other precautions to take to prevent it from happening again.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Until You Fall brings a refreshingly unique approach to VR sword fighting which combines the satisfaction of a hack & slash game with the depth of RPG combat, all wrapped up in a VR-native design. The post ‘Until You Fall’ Quest Review – Hack & Slash Satisfaction with Strategic Choices appeared first on Road to VR.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 31, 2022

Don't be an unwitting victim of third-party hacks. Here are some of the ways you can recognize if your smartphone has been targeted and what to do about it.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 5, 2022

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT was hacked Saturday, losing upwards of 200 ETH (about $360,000) worth of NFTs, according to reports. Fortune reported that the hack was the result of a phishing attack that compromised the Discord account of Boris Vagner, the project’s community manager. million worth of NFTs to the hack.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 24, 2021

Passwordstate, the enterprise password manager offered by Australian software developer Click Studios, was hacked earlier this week, exposing the passwords of an undisclosed number of its clients for approximately 28 hours. The hack was carried out through an upgrade feature for the password manager and potentially… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

After a slew of hacking scandals involving private surveillance companies, the U.S. is looking to impose new restrictions on the sale of commercial hacking tools—in the hopes of clamping down on abuse perpetuated by the industry. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 26, 2022

Did a hacktivist group hack the Belarusian railway system or not? Confirmation of the alleged breach remains elusive, though the allegations continue to intrigue security experts and commentators. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2021

Police in Spain have arrested a British man in connection with a major Twitter hack last year that targeted high-profile accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam.

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GizModo VR

JULY 5, 2021

GETTR — the new “patriot-friendly” social media platform established by former Trump adviser Jason Miller — was hacked on July 4, the same day the network had its official launch. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 28, 2017

Palmer Luckey just reportedly pledged $2,000 to CrossVR’s Patreon campaign which is used to fund the ongoing development of ReVive , a popular hack that allows Vive users to play Oculus-exclusive content that isn’t released on Steam. Back in April of 2016 we published a story about ReVive when it first rose to popularity.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As surveillance controversies have raged in connection with Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group, another, lesser known spyware firm from Israel has also apparently been hacking iPhones all over the world. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 19, 2022

A newly proposed law would enhance cybersecurity for commercial satellites to protect them from getting hacked by bad actors which is, apparently, a real threat we need to worry about now. Read more.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 15, 2022

Here’s one such hack… Read more. Chances are you spend a lot of time in a web browser every day—so anything you can do to speed up the way you get around the internet is going to make a significant difference to your productivity levels (and give you extra time to do something more exciting). Yes, even on the best web browsers.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, have agreed to pay out $10 million dollars to a competitor after admitting to hiring a former employee to hack into the rival company’s computer network. Read more.

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