Feds Relent on Security Hacker
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A grad student who posted a fake boarding pass generator to illuminate a security hole, only to get raided by the FBI, avoids prosecution. But he says his treatment will make the nation less safe. In 27B Stroke 6.
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A hacker broke into a wireless carrier's network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the Secret Service agent investigating the hacker, the government said yesterday.
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US federal and state officials are investigating the hacking of a University of California, Berkeley, computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal data for more than 1 million state residents.
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Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation&#39;s first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.
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Lawmakers are on alert as hackers increase attacks on US infrastructure.
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The feds turn up the heat on a corporate executive who went on the lam after being charged with paying hackers to take down the competition.
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Law enforcement has sought to identify some users of the Nmap freeware port scanner, the author says.
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Jason Larsen is a computer hacker with a twist. His goal is not to wreak havoc, but to boost security for America's pipelines, railroads, utilities and other infrastructure.
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Online criminals are getting better at targeting people's sensibility to hack into their computers.
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The US Secret Service has arrested 28 people on charges stemming from an undercover investigation into cybercrime. Charges against the suspects include identity theft, computer fraud, credit-card fraud and consipracy.
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The FBI is trying to find whoever hacked into a computer at the University of California at Berkeley. The computer contained personal information -- including social security numbers -- of nearly 1.5 million
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A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department&#039;s computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said Wednesday.
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.
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Bureau was target of an attempt to gain access to employees' user account information for its computer network.
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State and federal authorities are investigating a hacker attack at University of California, Berkeley, after someone broke into a computer containing the Social Security numbers
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Unix vendor SCO Group Inc became the victim of a hacker over the Thanksgiving weekend, in an apparent response to the company&#39;s claims against the Linux operating system.
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CAN-SPAM and other new laws help combat cybercrime, an FBI agent reports.