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....
Elon Musk may have just won approval for a $56 billion pay package from his adoring supporters, but someone in Fort Lauderdale is clearly not a fan of the controversial CEO. Last week, dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks were defaced with the words “Fuck Elon” in black spray paint, according to InsideEVs citing local news reports. Police say that 34 stainless steel trucks were tagged with the message, which was discovered on Friday. The Cybertrucks were being stored in the public parking lot, without any fencing or security, likely being held because of a previously reported problem with the windshield wiper. Tesla is also experiencing an inventory pileup as a result of cooling demand for its electric vehicles. Local news reports that the spray paint was easily removed, with a few trucks still showing some black smudges. But thanks to a few social media accounts, we can still exper...
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