Collaborate Disseminate
Usually when we think of Bitcoin miners, we imagine huge facilities of server racks doing nothing but essentially wasting energy, all for the chance that one of those computers amongst …read more Continue reading Tiny Bitcoin Miner Plays The Lottery
By Sudais Asif
The most successful scams targeting both in-service and retired US military veterans were…
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Defrauding the US Military: $379 million lost in 5 years to scams
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By Uzair Amir
Welp, here’s something shocking… NOT.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers jailed for hacking National Lottery & withdrawing £13
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We don’t care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities. Continue reading Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot
Lottery operator Camelot says that responding to the hacking attack in 2016 cost it £230,000.
How much did the hacker Anwar Batson make out of it? A mere £5.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Man who hacked National Lottery for just £5 is jailed for nine months
The tricky-to-pronounce Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan is jailed for hacking Paris Hilton, we hear the story of the man who hacked the lottery and almost got away with $16.5 million, and Facebook thinks it is the perfect partner to find you a date.
Find out in t… Continue reading Smashing Security #077: Why Paris Hilton doesn’t use iCloud, lottery hacking, and Facebook dating
A Mega Millions lottery jackpot winner’s “giving back” campaign on Twitter looks and sounds an awful lot like a scam. Numerous Twitter profiles have been popping up claiming to be operated by Shane Missler, a 20-year-old resident of F… Continue reading Mega Millions Winner “Giving Back” Twitter Campaign Looks Like a Scam
Twitter’s abuzz as a 20-year-old Mega Millions winner claims to be giving away free money for retweets and Amazon purchases. Is this for real?
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With all the hype surrounding cryptocurrencies and the current high not quite so high but still pretty eye-watering price of Bitcoin, there are some things which might once have been pure folly that could now be deemed worthy of pursuit. There is an excavation mission being considered to unearth a hard drive containing an early Bitcoin wallet in a Welsh landfill, for instance. But a more approachable task for you may be the possibility of mining using minimal hardware.
Take [Merlot Machina]’s project for example, implementing a Bitcoin miner on an ESP8266. Part of this is the timeless pursuit of …read more
Camelot, operator of the UK’s National Lottery, has issued a warning that tens of thousands of players’ accounts have been accessed by hackers.
Continue reading Hackers access National Lottery accounts – do you have your fingers crossed?
