Tag: hackers

“Don’t go screwing with information that belongs to innocent people!”

Michael Gillespie has automated a way to decrypt ransomeware, and he gives his code away for free just to help people in need.

How did an ambitious, kind 23-year-old go from working at a California cannabis dispensary to living in Manila with an internet criminal?

Professor Negar Mottahedeh gets some insight into her former homeland after an Iranian hacker steals her Instagram identity.

At Wired, Brendan Koerner takes a look into the mind of a mathematician-turned-hacker who milks slot machines around the world.

“Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth.” — Mat Honan, Wired More by Honan

Meet Martin, the I.T. guy who’s helped everyone from drug dealers needing to dodge wiretaps, to restaurants looking to inflate their Foursquare numbers: If you’ve seen that episode of The Wire, you know principle behind Martin’s system: ‘Burners,’ prepaid cell phones drug dealers use for a short time then abandon to thwart wiretaps. Prepaid phones […]

Thirty-two-year-old Luis Mijangos hacked into his victims’ computers, accessing their hard drives and even turning on their webcams: Mijangos was an unlikely candidate for the world’s creepiest hacker. He lived at home with his mother, half brother, two sisters—one a schoolgirl, the other a housekeeper—and a perky gray poodle named Petra. It was a lively […]