Hacker

  • LifestyleAOL

    Password mistakes hackers hope you make

    Don't make life easier for hackers by using passwords that are easy to crack. If your password is you name, favourite football team, a number such as 123456, or the word "password', you give cyber crooks a huge advantage. So

  • NewsAOL

    Car washes can be hacked to hit vehicles and threaten passengers

    Security researchers have discovered that machine car washes, connected to the internet, may be able to get hacked and subsequently attack vehicles and passengers. Vulnerabilities in software may allow hackers to open and close the outside doors

  • BusinessAOL

    Hackers manage to take control of Jeep steering wheel

    Two security researchers have demonstrated the dangers that hacking poses to cars by taking remote control of a Jeep's steering wheel. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have made headlines in the past by taking control of a Jeep from a

  • EntertainmentAOL

    Facebook pays ten-year-old hacker $10k

    Facebook has welcomed its youngest hacker yet, and they're paying them a fortune. A ten-year-old from Finland pointed out to the company that he could delete any comment on the photo sharing app, Instagram, without even being signed into

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  • NewsAOL

    Facebook targeted in hacker attack

    Facebook has announced that it was the target of a "sophisticated attack" by hackers last month, but said it found no evidence of user data being compromised. The social network said that the attack occurred when employees visited

  • TechnologyAOL

    Hackers target more than eight million computers

    A cyber-criminal ring infecting computers across the world has been shut down. A cyber-scam network, which has infected more than eight million computers around the world in the past two years, has been shut

  • TechnologyAOL

    Hidden code can wipe Samsung Galaxy S3

    Samsung/PA A single line of code can trigger an automatic factory-reset of the Samsung Galaxy S III, security researchers have discovered. Users of the smartphone are being warned that once started, there is no way of stopping the hack that