• Angry Birds website defaced following reports it enables government spying
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[quote=Ars Technica] [B]The official Angry Birds website was briefly defaced on Tuesday by people protesting reports government spy agencies abuse it and other "leaky" mobile apps to mine the personal details of smartphone users. For a brief span of time on Tuesday some visitors saw an image of the iconic bird and pig, but with some notable modifications. The image carried the caption "Spying Birds," and the bird had an NSA logo emblazoned on its forehead.[/B] Angry Birds developer Rovio has confirmed its website was briefly hijacked, most likely by hackers who managed to tamper with domain name system settings that ultimately control what server receives requests for a particular domain name. Differences in which servers cached the malicious domain name entries and the amount of time those malicious entries were allowed to persist mean that the spoofed page was visible to only some of the people who were trying to visit the site on Tuesday. According to The New York Times and the ProPublica news service, the National Security Agency and its British counterpart probe Angry Birds and other apps for users' personal data. [B]Rovio has since issued a statement saying it does not provide end-user data to government surveillance agencies. The statement went on to say company officials are reevaluating their relationship with third-party advertising networks, which Rovio said may make surveillance possible.[/B][/quote] [url=http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/angry-birds-website-defaced-following-reports-it-enables-government-spying/]Source[/url]. What the hacked page looked like: [img]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/angry-birds-defacement_zps96f87635.jpg[/img]
NSA has a bird in it's emblem how did nobody see this COMING [editline]30th January 2014[/editline] it could have been prevented
I've always been amused by the idea of hackers getting mad over invasions of privacy.
[QUOTE=Mingebox;43717670]I've always been amused by the idea of hackers getting mad over invasions of privacy.[/QUOTE] Not all hackers ever break anyone's privacy. Many often work for security companies and immediately report the breaches they find, and there's a kind of "sport" of it too, you know, for example stuff like [url=http://happyhacker.org/gtmhh/vol3no3.shtml]IRC wars[/url]. Plenty of [I]hackers[/I] never breach basic moral rights to privacy of others, unless it's from within a mutually committed "game" among them.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;43723135]Not all hackers ever break anyone's privacy. Many often work for security companies and immediately report the breaches they find, and there's a kind of "sport" of it too, you know, for example stuff like [url=http://happyhacker.org/gtmhh/vol3no3.shtml]IRC wars[/url]. Plenty of [I]hackers[/I] never breach basic moral rights to privacy of others, unless it's from within a mutually committed "game" among them.[/QUOTE] Skiddies, though. They're just the worst. They dump nmap results, use tools to DDOS websites and pretend they're elite hackers. #tangodown #rekt #anon #lulz etc.
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