Cybersecurity researchers are calling it the largest password compilation leak of all time. On July 4, a newly registered user on a popular hacking forum posted a file containing nearly 10 billion compromised passwords in plaintext. The post was first noticed by researchers at Cybernews . RockYou2024 leaked password compilation This gigantic list of leaked passwords known as RockYou2024 provides hackers with an important tool that can be utilized in a brute force attack. A brute force attack is a popular hacking method where the attacker guesses a user's password by trial-and-error. Hackers commonly use automated scripts when carrying out a brute force attack, which enables them to try out a slew of passwords within a short period of time. With a leaked password database this big, hackers have a nearly unlimited pool of passwords to try out. “In its essence, the RockYou2024 leak is a comp...
Elon Musk has announced that Donald Trump may be returning to Twitter. Musk justified this decision with the results of his personal Twitter poll. The @realDonaldTrump account and his tweets are back in full view just days after Trump confirmed he would run for president again in 2024. Shortly after taking control of the social network, Musk said he would not reopen suspended accounts until the company established and convened a content moderation council with "very diverse perspectives." . Instead, on Friday night, as people plunged into Thanksgiving weekend, he decided to vote for his followers on his Twitter. "Rehire former President Trump," he tweeted, along with a poll with buttons to select "yes" or "no." "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," he added in a follow-up tweet, in Latin, "The voice of the people is the voice of God." A "yes" answer won him by a narrow margin of 52-48. It's not clear how many of them were bots....
On June 19th, a Phoenix police officer pulled over an autonomous Waymo vehicle that had been driving in an oncoming traffic lane. The car was apparently confused by some construction signs and reportedly ran a red light before pulling over in a parking lot to let the officer talk to one of Waymo’s support representatives. In about two-and-a-half minutes of bodycam footage published by AZCentral, t he officer told Waymo the car was driving in a construction zone when it “went into opposing lanes of traffic, which is real bad.” He then told a curious bystander what had happened, adding, “so I light it up and it takes off in the intersection.” A dispatch record reportedly said the car drove through a red light and ‘FREAKED OUT’ before it pulled over. Waymo spokesperson Chris Bonelli told The Verge in an email that the vehicle, which had no passengers, drove into the oncoming lane whe...
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