Collaborate Disseminate
This week, hacking AOL style, DHS attempts to secure critical infrastructure, hacking for poison, ERP targeting, hacking 10,000 WordPress sites, prisoners steal things, wiping your car and get paid to hack your printer. Ed Sattar from QuickStart joins … Continue reading DHS, AOL, and Breach Prevention – Hack Naked News #183
AOL discontinued AIM, its 20-year-old iconic instant messaging service, last December, months after cutting third-party access to it. Now Motherboard reports a a small team of developers has resurrected it with a private server. From the report: The ne… Continue reading AIM Has Been Resurrected. Kind Of.
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of … Continue reading Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?
By Waqas
The IT security researchers at Trend Mirco have discovered that
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers compromise AOL advertising platform to mine cryptocurrency
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Usenet—a formative online protocol intended for conversations—was forever changed once the public figured out you could transfer binary files through it. Continue reading How File Sharing Broke the Internet’s First Forum
Cutting_Crew writes: Along with Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ, I used AIM extensively (without an AOL subscription of course). AIM will finally come to a halt on December 15th, 2017, as reported a few months ago and explained in AOL fashion ov… Continue reading PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow
Cutting_Crew writes: Along with Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ, I used AIM extensively (without an AOL subscription of course). AIM will finally come to a halt on December 15th, 2017, as reported a few months ago and explained in AOL fashion ov… Continue reading PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow
New submitter gooddogsgotoheaven shares a report from Motherboard arguing why the U.S. government should regulate Facebook like AIM: Sixteen years ago, the FCC approved a merger between American Online and Time Warner, but with several conditions. As p… Continue reading Regulate Facebook Like AIM
It’s the end of an era: as of December 15, AOL’s Instant Messenger will no longer exist. From a report: In a statement from Oath, the new entity formed under Verizon combining AOL with the recently-acquired Yahoo, the service will be discontinued. “AIM… Continue reading RIP AIM: AOL Instant Messenger Dies in December
“We have decided to close down our email business,” Verizon has announced — in a move which affects 4.5 million accounts. Slashdot reader tomservo84 writes:
Strangely enough, I didn’t find out about this from Verizon, itself, but SiriusXM, who sent m… Continue reading Verizon.net ‘Gets Out Of The Email Business’