Naive 'hacker' escapes punishment
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Hanging on the telephone Here's a cautionary tale for would-be penetration testers: get permission from a bank before you try to bill them for helping to identify and fix the security short-comings of their services. New Zealander Gerasimos Macridis, 39, learnt that lesson the hard way after his attempts to help the country's Reserve Bank in improving its telephone banking systems resulted in a court appearance.â¦
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An anonymous hacker who claimed last week to have found a way to generate valid Windows Vista activation codes now says his crack was a joke. But some users who tried it say it worked for them.
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Transmigration of the SQL The path to enlightenment got a little shorter for the citizens of Tucson, Arizona and they have a hacker half-way around the world to thank.â¦
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Program isn't entirely benevolent: it also downloads files to infected PCs.
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A non-campus computer and server that were hooked to the campus network without proper security precautions have been linked to a University of California, Berkeley hacker
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Hacking tools that let you unlawfully activate trial software can include malware used by hackers to steal financial data.
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Hackers are finding financial rewards in their actions, and criminals are increasing their dependence on IT. The combination, and the increased technical sophistication of the bad guys, worries a top federal prosecutor.
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A 24-year-old Romanian cheats a California computer equipment distributor out of $10 million. An Australian teenager causes a release of raw sewage by hacking into a treatment plantâs system.
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A convicted hacker accused of taking over a teenage internet celebrity's MySpace account and demanding nude photos and "phone sex" for its return has been charged in Los Angeles with computer intrusion, making obscene or threatening phone calls, and deleting computer data, in addition to attempted extortion. Federal charges may follow.
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Sophisticated computer worm is setting up a botnet that may be hard to beat.
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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Home detention for Sidekick data hack A hacker who broke into the systems of T-Mobile USA and lifted the personal details of around 400 people, including a US Secret Service agent, has escaped imprisonment.â¦
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An intruder could manipulate a flaw in how the browsers handle image files to see where the user has been surfing.
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AUGUST 24, 2004  - A Columbus, Ind., man was charged yesterday in federal court with hacking into the systems of his Gloucester, Mass.
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(InfoWorld) - Hackers are trying to play on business' fear of legal action from customers to trick them into downloading a harmful program distributed through e-mail. The e-mails purport to come from the Better Business Bureau, an organization that monitors and arbitrates disputes between consumers and businesses in the U.S. and Canada. The e-mails assert that a customer lodged a complaint against the recipient's business, according to a warning on the Web site of Websense, a security vendor. The e-mails contain aÂ Microsoft WordÂ attachmentÂ with the text of the supposed complaint and instructions for how to respond. But embedded in that document is a keylogging program that captures data on the victim's computer and then uploads it to a server in Malaysia. The keylogger is purposely mislabeled with a ".pdf" extension -- Portable Document Format -- another widely used document format, to make it look harmless, said Henry Gonzalez, Websense's senior security researcher. The trick is another variation of so-called "social engineering" methods used by hackers, which entice users to unknowingly install harmful programs on their computers. A Better Business Bureau branch warned of a similar kind of attack in February. At that time, the e-mails contained hyperlinks to malicious Web sites. Some kinds of malicious software can be installed on a user's computer merely by viewing a site engineered to exploit a vulnerability within a Web browser. The latest attack, using the Word document as the delivery vehicle for the malicious software, is a tactic hackers are increasingly employing. Â ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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It only takes 20 minutes on the Internet for an unprotected computer running Microsoft Windows to be taken over by a hacker. Any personal or financial information stored
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He turned over a new leaf, and turned it back again: A man previously convinced of hacking hundreds of military and government computers has been busted again, this time for massive credit-card theft. In between he became -- what else? -- a well-known security researcher.