FBI Consultant Spared Jail in Hacking Case

An FBI computer consultant who pleaded guilty to hacking the secret passwords of Director Robert Mueller and others will not serve any time in prison, a federal judge has ruled.

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Britain OKs Hacker's Extradition to U.S.

Britain's top law enforcement official on Thursday approved the extradition to the United States of an alleged computer hacker accused of damaging U.S. military systems.

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Arab Hackers Shut Down Israeli Sites

Pro-Palestinian hackers shut down hundreds of Israeli Web sites as Israeli troops invaded southern Gaza after the abduction of an Israeli soldier, an Israeli newspaper reported Thursday.

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Hacker Gets Into Neb. Child-Support System

A hacker broke into the child-support computer system run by the state Treasurer's office and may have obtained names, Social Security numbers and other information of 300,000 people and 9,000 employers.

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Hacker Enters Agriculture Dept. Computers

A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said Wednesday.

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Court: Alleged Hacker Can Be Extradited

A British court recommended Wednesday that a man be extradited to the United States to face charges in the largest attack on U.S. government computer networks — including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems.

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Hacker, 21, Gets Almost 5 Years in Prison

A 21-year-old computer whiz was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for taking control of 400,000 Internet-connected computers and renting access to them to spammers and fellow hackers.

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United Executive Hacker to Leave Company

Longtime United Airlines senior executive Doug Hacker, who took the carrier to court last month for allegedly not paying him bonuses he was due, is leaving the company May 1, parent UAL Corp. said in a regulatory filing Friday.

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Mac-User Sites Shut for Possible Violation

Two busy Web sites that focus on Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system went silent Friday just days after they featured links to information on how to hack the software and run it on non-Apple PCs.

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Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Warning

Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies.

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Man Threatens to Attack Olympic Computers

A would-be hacker was being investigated by police Monday after threatening to attack the internal computer network of the Turin Olympics organizing committee.

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IBM accused of hacking

A boutique Washington, D.C.-based law firm is accusing IBM of hacking into its e-mail system and is seeking recourse.

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Non-Profit Pays $15K Bounty for Software Pirates

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.

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Crazy-Long Hacker Sentence Upheld

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 …

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Hacker Goes Public with Unpatched Browser Bugs

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.

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Get yourself an FBI password

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.

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USDA says hacker may have stolen employees' data

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.

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Hacker may have pilfered personal data from USDA

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.

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Wired News: 'UFO Hacker' Tells What He Found

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Hacker Cites Government Cover up UFOs

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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UFO hacker tells of his findings

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University Opens School for Hackers

A degree course in computer hacking has been launched by a Scottish university in response to industry demand for IT security experts.

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Porn-Surfing Oregon Worker Exposes 2,200 Taxpayer IDs

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.

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Kevin Mitnick, the great pretender

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.

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Hacker Replaces State Emergency Site During Tropical Storm

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.

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More Windows Exploits Out; Hacker Wins $10K Challenge

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.

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Virus holds files for ransom

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Internet phone scheme leads to 2 hackers' arrest

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.

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Hacker attack swedish government server

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.

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10 dumb things users do that can mess up their computers

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MPAA sued for hiring a hacker to steal from Torrentspy.com

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.

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UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

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.

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Korean Apple online store hacked | CNET News.com

The Korean Apple store was defaced by a cracker, named "Dinam". Very interesting, maybe Apple does have security issues??

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HOPE Number Six

Technology ("hacker") convention in New York, Hotel Pennsylvania on July 21, 22, and 23, 2006.

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DOJ jails Spam King! Alan Ralsky might rat out a massive hacker / spammer network

Great news!

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I was just hunting UFOs, says Pentagon's UK hacker

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.

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