A British man named Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, pleaded guilty this week to charges of hacking the US Military satellite phone and messaging system.The hack took place back on June 15, 2014, when Caffrey broke into the DoD’s Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) satellite phone network and stole the details of 800 people and 34,400 devices.Stolen data included names, titles, email addresses and phone numbers for DoD personnel, and IMEI numbers for DOD satellite phones.Hacker advertised his hack online. Didn’t dump any data.The hacker, going under the acronym of ISIS Freedom Fighters, posted screenshots of the stolen data online, and later published the following nonsensical message on Pastebin, taking a jab at Lizard Squad, a fellow hacking group.

Google’s official Play marketplace is waging an uphill battle against Android apps that display an unending stream of popup ads even when users try to force them to stop, researchers said Friday.The researchers, from UK-based SophosLabs, said they have found a total of 47 apps in the past week that collectively have racked up as many as 6 million downloads. They all use a third-party library that bombards users with ads that continue to display even after users force-close the app or scrub memory. In a blog post, SophosLabs said Google has removed some of the privately reported apps while allowing others to remain.The MarsDae library that’s spawning the popup torrent supports Android versions 2.3 through 6, as well as Samsung, Huawei, Mizu, Mi, and Nexus devices. One app that incorporates MarsDae, SophosLabs said, is Snap Pic Collage Color Splash, whoch remained available on Google servers as this post was being prepared. Snap Pic has been downloaded from 50,000 to 100,000 times. Once installed, it displays ads on the Android home screen. Even after a user uses the Android settings to force close the app, the ads resume a few seconds later.

Daniel Devereux, 30, a British man calling himself ”His Royal Gingerness” has been sentenced to 32 weeks in prison for hacking the websites of the Norfolk and Norwoch University Hospital, and the website of the Norwoch International Airport.His punishment came today in a sentencing for a case he was charged in 2015 after he used SQL injections to take down the websites of the two aforementioned institutions.Devereux first hacked the Norwoch International Airport in September 2015, and the website of the Norfolk and Norwoch Hospital in November 2015.Hacker uploaded videos of the hacks on YouTubeAfter each incident, Devereux, under the alias of His Royal Gingerness, uploaded videos on his YouTube channel boasting about the hacks and showing a step-by-step walkthrough of how he achieved his intrusions.Because the hacker used poor operational security (OpSec), authorities were able to track down the cyber-attacks to his home and arrested Devereux the next year.

The sprawling factory compound, all grey dormitories and weather-beaten warehouses, blends seamlessly into the outskirts of the Shenzhen megalopolis. Foxconn’s enormous Longhua plant is a major manufacturer of Apple products. It might be the best-known factory in the world; it might also might be among the most secretive and sealed-off. Security guards man each of the entry points. Employees can’t get in without swiping an ID card; drivers entering with delivery trucks are subject to fingerprint scans. A Reuters journalist was once dragged out of a car and beaten for taking photos from outside the factory walls. The warning signs outside – “This factory area is legally established with state approval. Unauthorised trespassing is prohibited. Offenders will be sent to police for prosecution!” – are more aggressive than those outside many Chinese military compounds.But it turns out that there’s a secret way into the heart of the infamous operation: use the bathroom. I couldn’t believe it. Thanks to a simple twist of fate and some clever perseverance by my fixer, I’d found myself deep inside so-called Foxconn City.