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Crackers Deface Burger King Web Site
News The UK Web site belonging to fast food franchise Burger King was hacked and defaced yesterday by crackers who apparently prefer the taste of food at arch rival McDonalds. McDonalds has had its fair share of trouble with computer crackers, however.
[March 2, 2001, 11:00]
Hackers And Crackers: Who Can We Trust?
White Papers Both hackers and crackers have a vast amount of information at their fingertips. A hacker is a person intensely interested in the arcane and recondite workings of any computer operating system. A cracker is a person who breaks into or otherwise...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
Introduction To Autorooters: Crackers Working Smarter, Not Harder
White Papers Crackers of all skill levels, especially those in pursuit of quantity and not quality, are sure to use them in the future. Autorooters are a new and very serious threat to network security. These tools will, unfortunately, become more refined...
[February 16, 2005, 23:00]
Crackers Question Moon Landings
News A Web site belonging to NASA -- the US space authority -- was attacked by computer crackers on Wednesday, who replaced the home page with the enigmatic question "Did man really walk on the moon? The site, belonging to NASA's Geostationary...
[March 7, 2001, 15:33]
Crackers Suspected Of Rigging Big Brother Vote
News The Big Brother Web team suspect crackers may have unleashed a mailbomb on the voting section of the site, in order to rig the vote for unpopular housemate Paul. For the past month, the "Your Favourite" section of the Channel 4 Web site has...
[July 3, 2001, 17:07]
Crackers Fell Cabinet Office Web Site
News Crackers brought down the Cabinet Office's Web site Thursday, defacing the site and forcing its hosting company to take it off line. A cabinet office spokesman says that, to his knowledge, the attack was not politically motivated and describes the...
[July 13, 2000, 15:24]
A Year Ago: Are They 'hackers'? Or 'crackers'?
News According to the word police, there's a difference But after 15 years watching the computer elite trying unsuccessfully to enforce a distinction, Henry Kingman has a word of advice: Just give it a rest!
[April 5, 2001, 6:02]
Hacking The 'crackers': Key Internet Security Issue Solved
News The researchers announced at the start of Crypto'98 Conference held at the University of California-Santa Barbara Monday that they have created the Cramer-Shoup "cryptosystem," which protects public key infrastructures (PKIs) against so-called...
[August 25, 1998, 13:45]
Are They 'hackers'? Or 'crackers'?
News But after 15 years watching the computer elite trying unsuccessfully to enforce a distinction, Henry Kingman has a word of advice: Just give it a rest! Eric S. Raymond, lexicographer of the "New Hacker's Dictionary" -- it's really a repackaged...
[April 5, 2000, 15:03]
Free Speech Victory For DVD Crackers
News A California court has dealt a potentially serious setback to the movie industry's attempt to rid the online world of software that can help break through copy protections on DVDs. The appeals court released a decision on Thursday overturning an...
[November 2, 2001, 10:12]
Scotland Suffers St Andrew's Day Hacks
News Computer crackers launched an attack on Scotland and Saint Andrew Thursday, defacing prominent historical Web sites with anti-Scottish insults. The defacements, courtesy of crackers calling themselves Evil Angelica all read, "Och aye admin ya...
[December 1, 2000, 14:25]
A Year Ago: Cyberprotesters Deface Russian Site
News Crackers deface Itar-Tass site, demand end to Chechnya offensive Crackers have defaced the Web site of Russian News agency Itar-Tass in protest of Russian military actions in Chechnya. Crackers calling themselves "Princes of Darkness" and "Angels...
[December 13, 2000, 6:02]
Hackers Attack Government Web Site
News Computer crackers broke into the British government's Web site for the European single currency this Sunday, posting insulting messages about the Queen of England. In a message posted to the Web site, the crackers claimed that English men took...
[March 12, 2001, 15:07]
Experts Question US Vs China 'cyberwar'
News While hostilities between American and Chinese Web site crackers looks likely to hot up in coming days, some security experts are questioning whether the so-called "cyberwar" has been blown out of proportion.
[May 4, 2001, 16:32]
Another Microsoft Web Site Hacked
News This time the software giant's US Web site may have become the victim of computer crackers According to Alldas.de, a German Web site that records Web page defacements, a Web server located within Microsoft's .com domain at streamer.microsoft.com...
[May 8, 2001, 9:55]
Italian Police Nab NASA Hackers
Talkback That's good but you mean crackers, not hackers. They are crackers. Hacker's are not the people who crack/hack systems and to damage. Hacker's write open-source programs, sometimes white crack a system (They crack it without doing damage, and if...
[July 17, 2004, 0:34]
A Year Ago: Top Level Domain Names Hijacked
News Serbian crackers redirect traffic to a political page The domain names of high-profile companies like Adidas and Manchester United were hijacked this week by a group of Serbian crackers intent on redirecting traffic to a page containing a political...
[April 14, 2001, 6:00]
Fraudsters Recruit Computer Kids For Crime
News Organised crime syndicates are increasingly targeting budding computer crackers to carry out fraud, warned the assistant director of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Cyber Crime Unit, Thursday.
[September 28, 2000, 15:58]
Has The Warez Battle Been Won?
News The informal community of Internet software pirates has been ripped apart by the recent international law-enforcement raids on many of its elite crackers, members of the shadowy scene said this week. The yearlong investigation, known internally as...
[December 20, 2001, 11:11]
Could Stolen Microsoft Code Lead To More Security Mishaps?
News Computer security experts are concerned that the possible theft of Microsoft source code may lead to widespread security problems with its software, if malicious crackers gain access to key hidden features.
[October 27, 2000, 15:07]
