Daily Bruin

Participants of UCLA’s Hack on the Hill hackathon code projects on a time crunch

A vigorously typing student scrambled to put the finishing touches on their code. Tick, tock. Another student rushed to the judges’ table, frantically gesturing towards their screen. And – ding. As ...
WLKY

Spencer County student writes code to hack into online learning program, boost grades

HUNDREDS. DIFFICULT TO TELL BECAUSE IT DOESN’T LEAVE A TRACE. SPENCER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL STEPHEN WEBB SAYS, IT WAS AN ENGLISH TEACHER WHO FIRST NOTICED SOME IRREGULARITIES WITH AN ONLINE ...
AppleInsider

Small $500 device shown to brute force hack iPhone 7 lock screen passcodes, but could take days to work [u]

A unique new exploit is said to take advantage of just Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus running recent firmware, utilizing a small device to brute force hack and bypass the iOS lock screen passcode ...
Fast Company

This technique was supposed to replace passwords. Turns out it’s surprisingly easy to hack

The password technique in question is called a knock code. Such codes trace from ancient Greece to turn-of-the-century Russian prisons, in which a series of knocks or taps were equated with various ...
Los Angeles Times

Their code was used to hack Sony and create ‘WannaCry.’ Meet the ‘Lazarus Group,’ the armed robbers of the Internet

On Feb. 4, 2016, as employees left work to enjoy their weekends, the central bank of Bangladesh began firing off dozens of transfer orders to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, asking to remove ...