Source: news.com.com
A boutique Washington, D.C.-based law firm is accusing IBM of hacking into its e-mail system and is seeking recourse.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Non-Profit Pays Bounty for Software Pirates Bary Alyssa Johnson The Business Software Alliance (BSA) doled out a total of $15,500 in reward money on Tuesday to three individuals who came forward to report that their ex-employers used pirated software in the workplace.
Source: wired.com
A federal appeals court upheld a nine-year prison term Monday for a hacker who tried and failed to steal customer credit-card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores.He did present a credible threat of being able to steal credit card numbers from potentially eve …
Source: newsfactor.com
A well-known hacker has vowed to disclose the details of at least one browser flaw every day in July as part of a project, called the Month of Bugs, that is designed to draw attention to unpatched security vulnerabilities.
Source: rawstory.com
You would think the FBI would have one of the most secure computer systems around. Turns out they don’t, not if you can break into it as easily as this story says.
Source: news.yahoo.com
I doubt the criminals would have done anything bad with the info in the 3 weeks it took the Ag Department to let its employees know.
Source: news.com.com
Personal information on about 26,000 Washington, D.C.-area employees and contractors of the U.S. Department of Agriculture may be at risk after a hacking incident earlier this month, officials said Wednesday.
Source: wired.com
Source: securitypronews.com
A British hacker who broke into the computer systems of the U.S. military claimed he did it in order to research UFOs.
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A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts.
Source: Information Week
The identities included Social Security numbers, names, and addresses, and were transmitted to an unknown hacker by the keylogging Trojan horse that was on a PC in the state agency where the employee has been working.
Source: news.com.com
Without the current glut of naive Web users to exploit, would-be cyberthieves and vandals had to be somewhat more creative, and one of the most creative and infamous was Kevin Mitnick.
Source: Local 6
Hacker Replaces State Emergency Site During Tropical Storm TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Internet users logging onto the state's public disaster Web site Tuesday for an update on Tropical Storm Alberto instead got an imposter page after a hacker broke into the site.
Source: blog.washingtonpost.com
Several security sources are reporting that "exploit code" -- instructions showing bad guys how to attack vulnerabilities -- has been posted online for several more security flaws for which Microsoft just issued patches.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
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The U.S. authorities have arrested a Miami resident who they said made more than $1 million in a hacking scheme involving the resale of Internet telephone service.
The swedisch boulevard paper "Afonbladet" reports that the swedish government website (contains about 40.000 pages) was unreachable in the night from Saturday to Sunday, coming back online Sunday noon.
Source: techrepublic.com.com
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Sue your customers, steal from rivals -- does this group have any moral standards? "A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses the Motion Picture Association of America of hiring a hacker to steal information from a company that the MPAA has accused of helping copyright violators.
Source: ZD Net
Security experts fear that the UK government is on track to outlaw the supply of network security tools, and even scripting languages such as Perl.
Source: CNET
The Korean Apple store was defaced by a cracker, named "Dinam". Very interesting, maybe Apple does have security issues??
Source: hopenumbersix.net
Technology ("hacker") convention in New York, Hotel Pennsylvania on July 21, 22, and 23, 2006.
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Great news!
Source: today.reuters.co.uk
To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time." But Briton Gary McKinnon says he is just an ordinary computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens and UFOs exist.