While some people associate the word “jailbreaking” with prison riots or smartphone hacking, the most mainstream of cracking subcultures also takes on video game consoles. A mod chip developer known as WiiKey is now claiming to have reverse engine…
That’s right, we’re in the home stretch, and we can still use a little bit of love. As we subtly hinted previously, The Engadget Show is a nominated for a Webby, and we need your help to win! Remember all the fun we had last year with Douglas Rush…
You might have noticed that the AP’s Twitter account was hacked this afternoon and spread a report of a bombing at the White House. That yet another Twitter account was hacked isn’t the interesting part, it’s the immediate (if brief and shallow) p…
As prominent a character as Princess Zelda is in Nintendo’s 27-year-long The Legend of Zelda series, you’d think she’d at least have her own game by now. Motivated by the story of father Mike Mika hacking Donkey Kong…
As more of the story about the simultaneous cyber attack and real-world “Swatting” carried out against security researcher Brian Krebs comes to light, one of the significant details has the reported targeting of Microsoft employees fo…
Two California men have been charged with conspiracy and wire fraud in an elaborate hacking scheme that netted them $40,000 in Subway gift cards. According to recently released court documents, Shahin Abdollahi and Jeffrey Thomas Wilk…
Google is launching “help for hacked sites,” a series of articles and videos to help website owners get things back to normal working order after being hacked. The series provides instructions on how to recover and repair a website, a…
The last few weeks have seen a flood of companies being hacked or otherwise attacked online, and the latest is customer-support company Zendesk and some of its clients — including Tumblr. In a post on its blog, Zendesk s…
Just a day after Burger King’s Twitter account fell victim to hackers, it appears the same group has similarly dismantled Jeep’s official Twitter account. The page now says that Jeep was purchased by Cadillac, much like Burger…
As one of the largest sites on the internet, there’s no doubt that Facebook is a prime target for hackers. It looks like some of those hackers were apparently successful — Facebook has just admitted that its systems were…
