Feds: Anger drove Varian hacker: `Disgruntled&#39; ex-programmer ...
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A vindictive software programmer upset about his cancelled contract snuck into Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc.&#39;s computer system and zapped out e-commerce coding he and others
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Termination was 'malicious, willful, reckless, wanton' A jury has awarded a former security analyst for Sandia National Laboratories $4.7m after he was fired for conducting his own investigation into computer attacks and taking his findings to authorities of a separate agency.â¦
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Hackers have crippled one of the internet&#39;s biggest credit card processors, and tens of thousands of online merchants are losing business while the company struggles to recover.
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SecurePoint's decision to hire the alleged author of the Sasser worm has upset a software partner.
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Ziff Davis - Holes in KOffice and RealPlayer allow attackers to take over a user's system.
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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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Securities class-action attorney William Lerach, who has been called the most-hated man in the tech business, is set to plead guilty to a count of conspiracy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Hear that sound? It's champagne corks popping all over Silicon Valley.
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Blog: Writer is duped for the first time ever by a phishing attack; feels violated and ashamed
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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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Prosecutors blame the New York Times hacker for inspiring others of his generation to become cyber outlaws.
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A programming error in Skype could let hackers use "Add Video" feature to run malicious code on the victim's system.
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Browser beware Security experts are crying foul over a new supposedly secure browser application.â¦
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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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Things just aren&#39;t going well for Timothy Scott Short. Just days after a pair of tech support calls he made to printer manufacturer Digimarc&#160;resulted in his arrest, he now finds himself on the receiving end of a data breach with his Social Security number and birthdate accidentally made public via the federal court&#39;s Electronic Case Files (ECF) system.It&#39;s an ironic development, because Short, 33, was arrested in connection with the Oct. 5 theft of a Missouri Department of Revenue printer and a PC containing data on as many as 500 state residents.Short&#39;s personal information was discovered by the IDG News Service, listed on a court document called a Criminal Case Cover Sheet, which was publicly available to users of the ECF system. Normally, this document should only be accessible to those involved in the case, but it appears to have been inadvertently made public, according to a clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, who asked not to be identified because she was not authorized to speak with the press. &quot;It&#39;s something on our side,&quot; she said, adding that technical staff is now looking into the problem.The U.S. Judicial Conference, which sets policy for U.S. courts, has said that this kind of information should be removed from publicly available electronic court records, but actually removing all the sensitive information has proved difficult.&quot;If you went online to various court systems, you could find social security numbers of many individuals,&quot; said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. &quot;It&#39;s a really, really difficult question to answer, just because you&#39;re dealing with so many jurisdictions.&quot;Social Security numbers are the building blocks of identity theft crime because they can be used to secure credit cards. &quot;Any time you are placing Social Security numbers online, your are subjecting that person to identity theft,&quot; Stephens said.With the push to make public documents available online, other government databases have had similar problems. Earlier this year, the states of California and Colorado were forced to take their Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) databases offline after privacy advocates pointed out that the Social Security numbers and other data they contained could be misused by identity thieves.Short, however, may have bigger problems to worry about. He&#39;s facing $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison on charges of possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft. He was arrested after U.S. Secret Service Special Agent John Bush recognized his voice in calls placed to a tech support line of the company that makes the stolen printer.&#160;
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In every job that must be done there is an element of fun A former worker at a nanny agency has been charged with hacking offences.â¦
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Shame, humiliation, filth and fury A Seattle programmer who posed as a women looking for casual sex and published the email addresses, photographs and telephone numbers of the men who responded has earned himself instant notoriety.â¦
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A former programmer rants about the evils of technology in this text from O'Reilly.