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'Infowarfare' part of NATO arsenal?
News A spokesperson for the Pentagon refused to comment on the NATO strategy, saying such tactics are top-secret during a continuing conflict. You need to be able to extract certain elements of information to disrupt radio frequencies or telephone...
[March 26, 1999, 9:32]
Pentagon moves to protect military networks
News The Pentagon will create a Cyber Command to oversee the US military's efforts to protect its computer networks and operate in cyberspace, under an order signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday.
[June 24, 2009, 9:33]
Terry Waite speaks for Nasa hacker
Blog The Pentagon should thank Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon for "exposing the fragility" of US military systems, according to Terry Waite. He has that unique ability to find his way through the internet jungle and enter the inner recesses of the Pentagon.
[March 16, 2009, 15:20]
A Year Ago: Exclusive: UK hackers have an easy life
News A Welsh ex-hacker, famed for cracking the Pentagon's computers from his Cardiff bedroom, claims inadequacies in UK law and erratic media coverage guarantee leniency for British hackers -- even for serious offences.
[July 7, 2000, 7:01]
British man to be extradited for US military hacks
News The Pentagon, for example, has cited as many as 250,000 attacks in a single year. In 1997, two California teenagers and a trio of Israeli hackers were arrested for hacking into Pentagon servers. Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, then 18 years old, and...
[November 13, 2002, 9:10]
British hackers: Spotty teenagers they ain't
News Another hacker-turned-security expert, Matthew Bevan was prosecuted for breaking into the Pentagon's computers in 1990. One Brit hacker -- turned computer security consultant -- believes the stereotypical hack profile is way off.
[July 16, 1999, 11:50]
News Roundup: Attack on America
News Friday 14th September Consumer watchdogs warn that con artists are concocting online frauds to profit from the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Wednesday 12th September Web sites are set up for reports, information and support...
[September 12, 2001, 13:10]
Hackers Rule OK
News Matt Bevan and Richard Pryce, AKA Kuji and Datastream Cowboy, made headlines in the national press when they broke into the computer network of a modest little American government compound called the Pentagon.
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Nasa hacker: I'll plead guilty in the UK
News McKinnon has been accused by US prosecutors of "the biggest military hack of all time", after entering Nasa and Pentagon systems. Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon has told UK prosecutors he will plead guilty to charges in the UK, a move that...
[January 12, 2009, 16:56]
News Schmooze: Hacker attacks and Amazonion profits
News Once upon a time, you could deface the Pentagon homepage or take down Microsoft.com for a week and barely get noticed above the endless roar from the dot-com hype machine. How gleeful the life of a hacker must be nowadays.
[January 25, 2002, 17:36]
Nasa hacker loses last-ditch appeal
Blog McKinnon has been accused by the US of hacking US military networks, including the Pentagon, and causing extensive damage. Self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith against extradition to the US.
[October 13, 2008, 18:03]
Nasa hacker judicial review date set
News The US authorities allege that McKinnon caused $700,000 (£500,000) of damage, and disabled systems and military equipment, by hacking into US military computers at the Pentagon, at Nasa, and at US military installations in 2001.
[February 27, 2009, 17:03]
Herbless the hacker goes legitimate
News Matt Bevan, who was arrested in 1997 for breaking into computers belonging to the Pentagon, has since founded his own security company, Kuji Media Corporation. A UK hacker who made a name for himself cracking commercial Web servers and posting...
[November 21, 2000, 6:06]
Cyberterror? Don't make me laugh
News The article includes the usual quote that Congressman Curt Weldon offered reporters earlier this year, upon learning that unclassified Pentagon systems had been cracked over the Internet. Gear, "The New Magazine for Men", tackled the manly topic of...
[October 14, 1999, 11:04]
Networks boost security against attacks
News Since Tuesday's assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Gary said a number of clients have asked for additional security measures for their networks, which RedSiren, of Pittsburgh, is providing for free for now.
[September 17, 2001, 10:39]
Nasa hacker defence vows to fight on
News McKinnon is accused of accessing military networks, including those belonging to Nasa and the Pentagon, in 2001 and 2002. Gary McKinnon's legal team has pledged to continue to fight the self-confessed hacker's extradition to the US, after home...
[November 27, 2009, 13:00]
Al-Jazeera suffers DoS attack
News A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on the site. According to a report on ABC Online, the English site was hit almost immediately by what they have termed "hacker attacks" and technical glitches.
[March 27, 2003, 14:09]
NASA site blocks out Brazil
News The Pittsburgh centre, which is part of the Pentagon-funded Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, serves as a national clearing house for computer security issues. From time to time, when JPL security people detect hacker...
[March 16, 2000, 10:54]
FAQ: The Code Red threat
News Last week, the Pentagon shut down public access to all of its Web sites temporarily to purge and protect them. Security expert and hacker Max Butler, also known as Max Vision, started an 18-month prison term last month for creating a worm that...
[August 1, 2001, 9:08]
News Burst: UK hackers have easy life - exclusive
News Mathew Bevan, who was acquitted of endangering the national security of the United States by the High Court in November 1997, told ZDNet: "The American media has quite an anti-hacker view. They believe in the 'cool hacker', the anarchist kind of...
[July 7, 1999, 10:19]
