Recent questions tagged hacking

Description : What are the differences between threat, vulnerability, and consequence in the context of cybersecurity?

Last Answer : Those are academic terms, or possibly professional cybersecurity lingo. I'm a software developer, but have only done a few projects in cybersecurity, and I don't follow the academic or industry terminology very ... Update, or a DDOS attack. Could be ignorant users who don't know what they're doing.

Description : Are corporations and goverment agencies helpless against hackers for ransom?

Last Answer : If they can get through the Anti-virus programs and the firewalls then yup.

Description : IF 2016 presidential found invalid, what's up legally?

Last Answer : Well, I would assume we’d then fire the asshole who never should have won in the first place, and proceed from there.

Description : I am hacked and need some help!

Last Answer : You might want to either take it to a repair shop or pay someone to come to your home to check it out connected to your service provider. It's NOT going to be cheap; but what you're ... hacker who might love the challenge of figuring out what your hackers are doing & enjoy shutting them down!!!

Description : In which scenarios fraudulent credit card transaction may not be reversed?

Last Answer : One scenario is when you child makes an online purchase on your credit card.

Description : So what finally happened with/to the Ashley Madison site?

Last Answer : Probably someone got paid off via an off shore account and now it’s business as usual.

Description : Can they bug our cellphones like that?

Last Answer : answer:Possible? Yes. Does it happen? Probably. Scared?

Description : Ashley Madison is a 'dating' site for married couples that want to cheat on their spouses. Apparently they have been hacked and the hacker is threatening to release all 37 million names, unless the site closes up shop. Is this good or bad?

Last Answer : While I don’t condone what people do on that site. I find it weird that our right wing friends say we all have a free will to go through life with, yeah sure as long as it meets their views,if it doesn’t then they will force theirs on you, pretty cool huh?

Description : Someone hacked my facebook?

Last Answer : You can change your password if you can answer the secret question. You can’t change the secret answer. You might have to make another account. Best to tell all you your contacts not to send you any money and that to be careful with your old (hacked) account.

Description : A question for Computer Scientists: How feasible is an "offensive firewall"?

Last Answer : answer:Very feasible, you can fire off just about anything you want with existing firewalls and software for whatever conditions you want to look for. But it has the same risk/reward as any attack. You don’t get a pass for attacking a government network because they probed your network first.

Description : How to report hackers on Runescape?

Last Answer : answer:I believe there’s a contact link somewhere on the support site. If you can tell them your original password as proof that you really own the account they’ll probably give it back to you. I hope you have set a bank pin, so even if the hackers got your account, they can’t empty your bank.

Description : Can you "hack" an elevator, so that it will bypass "pickup calls"?

Last Answer : I remember reading this a while back (linked from lifehacker) but it hasn’t worked for me so far! http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/186/48/ some good comments about whether it works on lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/205918/send-the-elevator-directly-to-your-floor

Description : Any idea of the repercussions if I attack a site that is hosting images of protesters in Iran and asking for their identity?

Last Answer : I don’t know, but if it is a site as you describe it to be, I would applaud you! (Best not to get caught, though and be proud in private – by yourself, knowing that I would be proud of you if I knew.)

Description : To snoop or not to snoop.

Last Answer : how old is she?

Description : Do you still have to remember usernames with "SuperGenPass"? what about password lenght requirements that are diff on diff sites, also: any alternatives you guys use that's 100% hacker safe?

Last Answer : answer:i just use the same…i don’t care that people see me on empornium etc. but ofcourse, everything will never be fully hackproof…

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