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The stigma attached to the term "hacker" needs to be dropped if computer security advancements are to be made.
February 03, 2010
Brief
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...
March 24, 2009
Blog Post
A hacker accessed the computer network of Eastern Washington University, putting the 130,000 student's sensitive information at risk.
January 04, 2010
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A Romanian hacker using the alias "Unu" claims to have found a hole in an Intel website. The hacker demonstrated in late December an SQL injection vulnerability on the Intel "Channel Webinars" site, which is used to run online registrations for channel partner events. The site is currently...
January 06, 2010
News
Much like average American workers, hackers tend to take off during the summer -- and weekends -- but come Christmas and New Year's, they are out in full force.
August 25, 2009
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A group of computer hackers based in Turkey breached the sites of two U.S. Army facilities, leveraging SQL injection attacks.
June 01, 2009
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A hacker who went by the alias "Iceman" pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Pittsburgh to charges of wire fraud and now faces up to 60 years in prison.
June 30, 2009
News
Veteran hacker Ehud Tenenbaum faces up to 15 years in prison for his involvement in an "international conspiracy" to hack into financial institutions.
August 26, 2009
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A federal indictment was unsealed Monday in Boston charging a hacker with selling hardware and software designed to steal internet bandwidth.
November 03, 2009
Blog Post
Hackers, believed to be from China, gained access to an Iowa government database, which contained the personal information of current and former employees of Iowa's casino and racing industries.
February 03, 2010
News
A San Francisco-based hacker accused of stealing and then selling hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers must spend 13 years behind bars, a federal judge has ruled.
February 16, 2010
Blog Post
A San Diego medical center is warning patients that a hacker may have accessed their personal information.
How many victims? 30,000.
What...
July 17, 2009
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A Swedish hacker has been indicted by a grand jury in San Francisco for breaking into U.S.-based NASA and Cisco Systems computers. The Swedish citizen, Philip Gabriel Pettersson, who uses the alias "Stakkato," cannot be extradited from Sweden, but he can be tried in a Swedish court for the...
May 06, 2009
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The same band of hackers responsible for the DNS records hijack of Twitter last month launched an apparent similar attack on leading Chinese search engine Baidu, according to published reports. For several hours on Monday night EST, visitors to the site were redirected to a page announcing that the...
January 12, 2010
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In 2006, a hacker calling himself Wolfenstein broke into a Department of Defense network causing $35,000 in damages. Even though he compromised remote servers and deleted access logs in an attempt to cover his tracks, 23-year-old Romanian student Eduard Lucian Mandru was tracked down, via his Yahoo email account,...
March 20, 2009
News
Politically motivated hackers were able to break into several of Network Solutions' servers and then display their illegitimate content.
January 20, 2010
News
Jeff Moss, a former hacker who founded the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences, was one of 16 people appointed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council.
June 08, 2009
News
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who broke into NASA and U.S. Department of Defense computers, has lost another appeal in his quest to avoid extradition to the United States.
July 31, 2009
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Hackers posing as a trusted advertiser tried to trick NYTimes.com visitors into believing their computers were infected so they would buy a fake anti-virus product, the paper has revealed.
September 15, 2009
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Security experts remain puzzled how hackers orchestrated their compromise of a Virginia state health care website.
May 05, 2009