HBO hack includes Game of Thrones outline, episodes of other shows

Hackers once again prove that nothing online is secure, and after Defcon attendees demonstrated official voting machines are easily compromised we find HBO a victim as well. Late Sunday evening reporters were alerted to a breach of the HBO servers, … Read More

‘Orange is the New Black’ Season 5 Premiere Leaked

What should you do when hackers hold your website or content hostage? You might think about paying whatever ransom they are asking for, or else pay more in the long run.

Those might be the thoughts of Netflix, now, after … Read More

Leaked CIA Docs Include Samsung Smart TV Hack

It’s like something out of George Orwell’s “1984.” New purportedly leaked C.I.A. documents obtained by WikiLeaks reveal thousands of pages of software that can be used for surveillance, cyber warfare, anti-virus, and more. The leak may be the largest yet, … Read More

San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone successfully hacked

The U.S. Justice Department successfully broke into the iPhone 5C used by the San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook, and as a result ended their court order for Apple to assist with unlocking the phone.

While the feds may have had access to the … Read More

FBI: North Korea responsible for Sony hack [Updated]

Today the FBI issued a statement concluding that North Korea is responsible for the hack into Sony Pictures Entertainment that destroyed data, stole personal information and confidential communications, and took computer systems and networks down, resulting in huge financial losses … Read More

New James Bond film screenplay hacked

In what has been one of the worst corporate hacking attacks ever, Sony has acknowledged that an early version of the newest James Bond film Spectre was part of the leaked data. EON productions said on Saturday they would take … Read More

Windows XP IE browsers vulnerable to hacks

Last weekend Microsoft announced the first major security flaw to the now un-supported Windows XP operating system. The OS, originally released in 2001, no longer receives patch updates including for Internet Explorer (even though IE6 still gets patches for Windows … Read More

Sony reveals attempted hacks on networks

Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer has revealed there have been multiple attempts to access the company’s network database, and that possibly 0.1% of Sony accounts may have been affected. The CISO also suggested that data from other companies including paired user IDs and passwords were used in mass to attempt to access Sony’s Networks. Read More

Sony moves to stop PS3 hack

Sony has moved to take legal action over the apparent three or more hackers who broke into the PS3 operating system, bypassing protection which would prevent bootleg copies of PlayStation 3 games to run on the console. Hacker “Geohot” is one the defendants served with restraining orders prohibiting the named as well as others involved from “Engaging in acts of circumvention of TPMs in the PS3 System to access, obtain, remove, or traffic in copyrighted works.” Read More

Halo: Reach review copy hacked into

Hackers who claim to be from the Game-Tut.com website were able to hack into the downloadable review copy of Halo: Reach. The Xbox 360 title scheduled for full release on Sept. 14, 2010 was made available to early media reviewers who could enter a unique code to access the digital copy. The hackers (referred to as modders), were able to remove that access code requirement and play the game. Read More

Boxee beta back on hacked AppleTVs

There was disappointment in December ’09 when the released Boxee beta application dropped support for AppleTV. But, support is now back and already hacked AppleTVs with the old Boxee app just have to run the Boxee beta upgrade via the AppleTV Launcher > Downloads menu. Read More

Our site hacked – solution posted

For the past several hours HD-Report was not working correctly due to a hack upon our site. A malicious URL string was placed at the end of each of our pages, which caused problems in linking to the pages as well as error messages. Read More