A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone … Read more
Edit: A few people on HN have pointed out that this article sounds a little LLM generated. That’s because it’s largely a transcript of me panicking and talking to Claude. Sorry if it reads poorly, the incident really happened though! … Read more
The Setup Picture this: Restaurant Brands International (RBI) – the corporate overlords behind Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes – control over 30,000 locations worldwide. That’s a lot of chicken sandwiches, maple syrup, and flame-broiled beef. What they also control … Read more
If you’ve known me for some amount of time you knew this was something that was bound to happen eventually. Yesterday (and technically today), me and a friend went on an endeavor to hack our washing machine, partially for the … Read more
Startups Need to Take Security Seriously Timeline & Responsible Disclosure: Upon identifying these vulnerabilities, I reached out to the Cerca team via email on February 23, 2025. The next day (Feb 24), we held a productive video call to discuss … Read more
I often get distracted. I obviously don’t like it. So I decided to turn my computer’s clock into a constant reminder to help me focus. Implementation This hack requires: Ubuntu with GNOME desktop environment The Panel Date Format extension A … Read more
In 2024 we released the blog post We Hacked Google A.I. for $50,000, where we traveled in 2023 to Las Vegas with Joseph “rez0” Thacker, Justin “Rhynorater” Gardner, and myself, Roni “Lupin” Carta, on a hacking journey that spanned from … Read more
The NCSC-NL (National Cyber Security Centre – Netherlands) sent me a ‘lousy’ t-shirt on behalf of the Dutch government. Together with the t-shirt was a thank you letter. Thank you for bringing a vulnerability to our attention. Together with vulnerability … Read more
Introduction What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas, especially when it involves uncovering vulnerabilities in Google’s systems. The story you are about to read starts in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel, travels to the heart of Tokyo, … Read more