Tag: abusing

24 JUN

US Olympic doctor to stand trial for allegedly sexually abusing female athletes as young as 11

A US Olympic doctor who worked with the USA gymnastics team for nearly 20 years is to stand trial on sexual abuse charges. The female athletes he is accused of assaulting claim he became aroused while touching them. One was just 11 at the time. Larry Nassar will face at least 17 counts of criminal […]

03 MAY

Thieves drain 2fa-protected bank accounts by abusing SS7 routing protocol

Enlarge (credit: Raimond Spekking) A known security hole in the networking protocol used by cellphone providers around the world played a key role in a recent string of attacks that drained bank customer accounts, according to a report published Wednesday. The unidentified attackers exploited weaknesses in Signalling System No. 7, a telephony signaling language that […]

08 MAR

Overwatch Players Are Abusing Custom Games To Farm XP

Overwatch’s new custom game browser has given rise to everything from tense “predator” games of cat and mouse to sex role-play rooms. Good times all around, in other words. Other players, however, have taken to abusing the feature. If you take a look around Overwatch’s custom game lobby, you’ll almost assuredly come across at least […]

02 MAR

‘Wake up to Apartheid’: TV host savages Israeli society for ‘abusing Palestinians on a daily basis’

An Israeli television presenter Assaf Harel used his comedy show’s final broadcast to launch a scathing attack on “apartheid” and “plague” conditions in Gaza that he says are being swept under the carpet by the vast majority of the Israeli population. The Israeli government has long been the focus of human rights organizations like Amnesty […]