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A Year Ago: Exclusive: UK Hackers Have An Easy Life

News Another British hacker, Nicholas Whitely, nicknamed "mad hacker" by the tabloids, was given a prison sentence in 1988 largely because his particularly destructive hacking of ICL and various universities -- wiping files and bringing down hundreds...

[July 7, 2000, 7:01]

Hackers Rule OK

News The "Mad Hacker", also known by the slightly less intimidating handle Nick Whitely, is arrested and accused of running amok on the computer systems of the Ministry of Defence and MI5. Peter Sommer creates the influential classic "The Hacker's...

[December 27, 1999, 6:05]

Script Kiddies: The Net's Cybergangs

News Nemesystm", another script kid who claims to be Dutch teenager based in the Netherlands, doesn't consider himself a hacker either. Despite such dedication -- or addiction, some might say -- the teenage Web vandal does not consider himself a hacker.

[July 13, 2000, 8:52]

Anatomy Of A Mobile Virus: Dismantling A Daisy Chain Explosive

Blog To understand why mobile viruses have become so destructive one must understand that as a hacker the more malicious your virus is the better it is. By now I’ve either kept your interest and have intrigued your thirst for more or I have painted...

[June 3, 2007, 20:07]

Exclusive: UK Hackers Have An Easy Life

News Another British hacker, Nicholas Whitely, nicknamed "mad hacker" by the tabloids, was given a prison sentence in 1988 largely because his particularly destructive hacking of ICL and various universities -- wiping files and bringing down hundreds...

[July 7, 1999, 16:35]

The First IPhone Mobile Torrent

Blog As reported by Gizmodo.com, “Core, an iPhone Hacker with mad hacking skills, has managed to port to the iPhone a functioning P2P client based on Transmission, which is a popular torrent app for Macs. The First iPhone Mobile Torrent Arrives

[March 17, 2008, 16:25]

Hackers Earn Income From Spam Attacks

News The virus carries a trojan -- a piece of hacker software that installs itself on users' machines after an email attachment is downloaded. Don't get mad -- her computer's been infected by the spamming trojan virus.

[July 4, 2001, 11:49]

Inside The Online Movie Underground

News DeCSS, a hack of the DVD encryption scheme widely distributed online, led to a lawsuit against the popular hacker site 2600.com. Consumers are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it any more. And once you put a human face on an issue such as...

[May 15, 2000, 16:19]