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  2. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    After a prolonged sting investigation, Secret Service agents swoop down on organizers and prominent members of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud.

  3. List of data breaches - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the ...

  4. Censorship of GitHub - Wikipedia

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    Censorship of GitHub. GitHub has been the target of censorship from governments using methods ranging from local Internet service provider blocks, intermediary blocking using methods such as DNS hijacking and man-in-the-middle attacks, and denial-of-service attacks on GitHub's servers from countries including China, India, Iraq, Russia, and ...

  5. 2020 Twitter account hijacking - Wikipedia

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    Arrests. 3, as of July 31, 2020. [update] On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [ 1][ 2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter ...

  6. Cross-site scripting - Wikipedia

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    Cross-site scripting ( XSS) is a type of security vulnerability that can be found in some web applications. XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy.

  7. DDoS attacks on Dyn - Wikipedia

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    16:45 UTC, 21 October 2016. [1] On October 21, 2016, three consecutive distributed denial-of-service attacks were launched against the Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn. The attack caused major Internet platforms and services to be unavailable to large swathes of users in Europe and North America. [3] [4] The groups Anonymous and New World ...

  8. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    Type. Game creation system, massively multiplayer online game. Roblox ( / ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.

  9. DLL injection - Wikipedia

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    There are multiple ways on Microsoft Windows to force a process to load and execute code in a DLL that the authors did not intend: . DLLs listed in the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\AppInit_DLLs are loaded into every process that loads User32.dll during the initial call of that DLL.