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2014 Sony Pictures hack. On November 24, 2014, a hacker group identifying itself as "Guardians of Peace" leaked a release of confidential data from the film studio Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, emails between employees, information about executive ...
Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. [ 1] The term phreak is a sensational spelling of the word freak with the ph- from phone, and may also refer to the use of ...
Penetration test. A penetration test, colloquially known as a pentest, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system; [ 1] this is not to be confused with a vulnerability assessment. [ 2] The test is performed to identify weaknesses (or vulnerabilities ), including the potential ...
HackThisSite.org, commonly referred to as HTS, is an online hacking and security website founded by Jeremy Hammond. The site is maintained by members of the community after he left the organization. [ 1] It aims to provide users with a way to learn and practice basic and advanced "hacking" skills through a series of challenges in a safe and ...
A recording of the WGN-TV intrusion. The first intrusion took place at 9:14 p.m. during the sports segment of WGN-TV's The Nine O'Clock News. Home viewers' screens went black for about fifteen seconds, before footage of a person wearing a Max Headroom mask and sunglasses is displayed.
Max Headroom. Max Headroom is a fictional character played by actor Matt Frewer. Advertised as "the first computer-generated TV presenter", [ 1] Max was known for his biting commentary on a variety of topical issues, arrogant wit, stuttering, and pitch-shifting voice. The character was created by George Stone, [ 2] Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton.
WarGames. WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film [ 2] directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to ...
An example of an IDN homograph attack; the Latin letters "e" and "a" are replaced with the Cyrillic letters "е" and "а". The internationalized domain name ( IDN) homoglyph attack (often written as homo graph attack) is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the ...