Mastodawn

Hacker News 4d ago

A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking

#HackerNews #spam #policy #back #button #hijacking #web #development #Google #Search

Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking" | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Google for Developers

CBC British Columbia Apr 8

Former commercial pilot pleads guilty in hijacking of small plane in B.C.
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada says Shaheer Cassim pleaded guilty in a Richmond, B.C., court on Tuesday of charges of hijacking an aircraft and interfering with the operation of Vancouver International Airport.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-plane-hijacking-guilty-plea-9.7156782?cmp=rss

F4ACU Matthieu Apr 4

Nothing to do on 144.800 with this kind of "callsign" and a WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1 PATH is a "perfect" choice to saturate 1k2 channel around 🤦‍♂️
They maybe ignore the path effect on #aprs network but experiences in ham World can not be an excuse not to follow rules and use a fake callsign ! #hijacking

PrivacyDigest Mar 4

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign #Spies and Criminals

A highly sophisticated set of #iPhone #hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
#privacy #hacking

https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

WIRED

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Karel 'Clock' K.Feb 11

@signalapp Signal IMO has bad security because when someone decides they are not interested in an overpriced, underperforming service of "phone number" and stops using their SIM, they cannot deregister the number from Signal and the new owner of the number either can hijack their Signal account, or people may be blocked from using newly purchased SIMs with Signal.

Also, authoritarian regimes IMO can temporarily transfer a number into a provider's internal SIM in order to hijack a Signal account and impersonate a dissident against another dissident, facilitating abduction, torture and murder.

I feel

c o n t e m p t

towards Signal when it is designed this way.

#badsecurity #incompetence #signal #phonenumberasidentity #security #SIM #contempt #securityhole #securityflaw #attack #hijacking #torture #murder #abduction #authoritarianism #regime #authoritarian