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Red box (phreaking) A red box is a phreaking device that generates tones to simulate inserting coins in pay phones, thus fooling the system into completing free calls. In the United States, a nickel is represented by one tone, a dime by two, and a quarter by a set of five. Any device capable of playing back recorded sounds can potentially be ...
Lazarus Group. Lazarus Group (also known as Guardians of Peace or Whois Team[1][2][3]) is a hacker group made up of an unknown number of individuals, alleged to be run by the government of North Korea. While not much is known about the Lazarus Group, researchers have attributed many cyberattacks to them since 2010.
A coin pusher, or a penny pusher is a type of arcade game with the objective of winning prizes in the form of coins or other items. Prizes are won when they are dislodged from a playfield covered in coins, into a payout slot. Players can only manipulate the playfield by adding coins to the opposite end of the playfield from the payout slot ...
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
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 the accounts themselves and post the tweets ...
John Thomas Draper (born March 11, 1943), also known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal mascot), is an American computer programmer and former phone phreak. He is a widely known figure within the computer programming world and the hacker and security community, and generally lives a nomadic lifestyle.
A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough ...
2016 Bitfinex hack. The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoin, worth about US$72 million at the time, was stolen. [1] In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein that contained ...