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Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Down NISD Over Student Tracking

HotHardware: The Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio sparked a controversy earlier this year when it rolled out its "Student Locator Project," an initiative that requires students to wear ID badges with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips. NISD's website is down today, and a member of the hacking organization known as Anonymous reached out HotHardware to take credit for the outage.

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A cyberattack kept the whole country's government offline for a month

A cyberattack kept the whole country's government offline for a month.

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iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever

Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air.

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Local police departments in all 50 states use hacking tool to unlock smartphones

About 2,000 law enforcement agencies from all 50 states use mobile device forensic tools to extract every piece of data from smartphones.

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