Hacker Gary McKinnon will receive no pity, insists US Gary McKinnon, the Briton accused of hacking Pentagon and Nasa computer networks, faces an increasingly hostile climate on cyber security in the US if his extradition is approved this week. American officials have made clear that they regard Mr McKinnon, 43, an unemployed computer programmer who [...]
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Its summer…Do you know what your kids are doing?, (Fri, May 29th)
Its summer…Do you know what your kids are doing?, (Fri, May 29th) School is over or about to be over for many kids. With that comes many families whose parents work and kids will be left at home to relax and enjoy their summer vacation. This means alot of free time and an internet out [...]
Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook
Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook Hackers launched an attack on Facebook’s 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said on Thursday that the site was in the process of cleaning up [...]
UC Berkeley suffers breach
UC Berkeley suffers breach Hackers breached a server in the health services center at the University of California, Berkeley, and accessed the personal data of more than 160,000 people, the college announced Friday. The stored database records included Social Security numbers and health insurance and other medical information. The intruders, believed to be based overseas, [...]
Hackers seek payment after break-in on state health care site
Hackers seek payment after break-in on state health care site Security experts remain puzzled how hackers orchestrated their compromise of a Virginia state health care website. URL: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCMagazineHome/~3/9uBy5bmiEok/
Hackers Break Into Pentagon’s Fighter Jet Project
Hackers Break Into Pentagon’s Fighter Jet Project Hackers broke into U.S. Department of Defense computers and downloaded terabytes of data containing design information about the Joint Strike Fighter, a US$300 billion stealth fighter currently under development, according to The Wall Street Journal. The stolen files all relate to the design of the Joint Strike Fighter [...]
FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years
Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists, Hackers for Years A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots, terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back at least seven years, newly declassified documents show. Source – Threat Level Reddit It | Digg This | Add to del.icio.us URL: http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090418084343570
News paper article gt who is the greatest Hacker?
News paper article gt who is the greatest Hacker? Posted by Answer on Apr 06 Hello all – please excuse the off-topic ride. I need for a NP article a list of top-five actual hackers ( I mean Hacker, not security expert ). A sort of wall of fame, only screen name. Would one be [...]
A hacker site signs off
A hacker site signs off HackersBlog, a Romanian website that gained notoriety for recently exposing SQL injection vulnerabilities in websites of security vendors such as Symantec, Kaspersky Lab, F-Secure and BitDefender, is shutting down. A post on the website said the operation had “gotten to that point where most of the team members had enough [...]
Sniffing keystrokes with lasers, oscilloscopes
Researchers have devised two novel ways to eavesdrop on people as they enter passwords, emails, and other sensitive information into computers, even when they’re not connected to the internet or other networks. Exploiting vibrational patters and electromagnetic pulses that emanate with every character entered, the Italian researchers are able to remotely sniff keystrokes [...]
Hacker Disabled Offshore Oil Platforms’ Leak-Detection System
A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a disgruntled tech employee Tuesday on allegations of temporarily disabling a computer system detecting pipeline leaks for three oil derricks off the Southern California coast. Mario Azar, 28, faces a maximum 10-year term after being accused of purposely impairing a computer system that monitored for leaks [...]
