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Hacker Defaces 200 Government Web Sites
News A hacker defaced more than 200 Brazilian government Web sites this week what appears to be a political protest. The hacker left abusive anti-government messages on some of the sites and a photo of a woman's eye on others.
[October 26, 2004, 17:40]
Hacker Fear Scares US Government Agency Offline
News The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suffered another security embarrassment on Thursday when it shut down its Web site because of fear of computer hacker attacks. However, the EPA site has been known to be vulnerable to hacker attacks...
[February 18, 2000, 11:25]
Hacker 'saint' Gets Sentenced
News A teenage Welsh hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has been sentenced to three years of community rehabilitation with psychiatric care for what the defence called an obsessive medical condition.
[July 6, 2001, 12:32]
Hacker Exploits Microsoft Bug Online
News A Japanese hacker has surreptitiously posted a programme on the Net which gives remote attackers complete control of vulnerable servers running Microsoft's popular Web server software. The hacking script was posted last week on the Geocities home...
[July 5, 2001, 16:54]
Hacker Had WorldCom In His Hands
News The curious hacker strikes again. The quizzical hacker poked around WorldCom's system four times over the past two months, ending last Friday when he told the company of the hole and helped it secure a misconfigured server.
[December 7, 2001, 9:32]
Hacker Exploits Make PC Worms More Deadly
News Computer worms are set to become a more deadly combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts at Symantec. Code Red and Nimda marked the demise of socially engineered worms, by combining a blended threat of proven...
[October 18, 2001, 12:20]
Chapter 17: Hacker-Proofing Your Database
White Papers As you contemplate how a hacker might attack, you must "think outside the box. This paper details how the hacker thinks and operates - analyzing the anatomy of an attack. To understand your attacker, you must learn to think like your attacker.
[February 20, 2005, 23:00]
A Year Ago: Hacker Endangered Astronauts On Mission To Mir
News A computer hacker endangered the lives of space shuttle astronauts in 1997 by interfering with the communications system linking the shuttle to Nasa, Monday night's Panorama is expected to reveal. The shuttle was docking with Russian space station...
[July 2, 2001, 6:28]
Hacker Groups, Who Are They?: Are They A Serious Threat?
White Papers Hackers have been part of the IT landscape for many years, it is commonly agreed that the term 'hacker' can be traced back to the engineering department at MIT in the early 1960's. This paper investigates several of the major hacker groups, their...
[February 21, 2005, 23:00]
Hacker Hits McDonald's China Web Site
Talkback Stop using the word "Hacker" incorrectly! It gives the real ones a bad name.
[December 28, 2004, 7:24]
Hacker Gets What He Wants At Burger King Web Site
News The UK Web site of the fast food chain Burger King was defaced on Tuesday for the third time this year, this time by a hacker operating under the nickname of MrAgent. In place of Burger King's Flash-animated page, the hacker placed the message...
[June 27, 2001, 16:55]
Hacker Mitnick To Serve 22 Months
News Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, is set to be sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to 22 months - six months less than he's already served since his celebrated February 15, 1995 arrest in North Carolina, according to attorneys close to...
[June 20, 1997, 10:52]
Hacker Helps Excite@Home Toughen Defences
News The company shored up its online defences after a hacker pointed out a vulnerability in April that allowed access to the company's internal network and exposed nearly 3 million support records to the public.
[May 30, 2001, 10:48]
Five Years Ago: Hacker Mitnick To Serve 22 Months
News Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, is set to be sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to 22 months - six months less than he's already served since his celebrated February 15, 1995 arrest in North Carolina, according to attorneys close to...
[June 20, 2002, 7:02]
Hacker Mitnick Back Online
News Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went back online on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade. Mitnick spoke with Lieberman when the former hacker testified in front of Congress in March 2000.
[January 22, 2003, 14:50]
Hacker Attacks Music File Sharers
Talkback my previous post was directed at the post about "This is NOT a hacker" sorry im stupid and ignorant but so is the person that posted that statement without backup
[April 27, 2005, 3:13]
Hacker Dodges Prison Term
News A hacker has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for compromising accounts on an Internet dating site. The hacker did not gain access to the "loveandfriends" database or web servers.
[November 8, 2006, 15:18]
Hacker Eyes Xbox Reward
News An anonymous hacker has succeeded in running Linux on an unmodified Xbox, apparently satisfying a $100,000 (about £63,000) challenge funded by Lindows founder Michael Robertson. A hacker using the name Habibi-Xbox revealed the exploit on Saturday...
[April 1, 2003, 7:52]
Hacker Mitnick's Happy New Year
News Christmas came early for notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. A former fugitive from justice who wound up serving a five-year prison term for computer crimes against companies including Sun Microsystems and Motorola, Mitnick is enjoying a...
[December 27, 2002, 9:34]
Hacker Finds Fault In .Net Security
News Moore, a hacker and senior security analyst for Digital Defense, told attendees of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, that the .Net Framework could nearly eliminate some types of vulnerabilities that plague...
[May 3, 2002, 8:49]
