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- Criminal Hacker
- A criminal who uses hacker techniques to break the law. Originally, the term "hacker" referred only to a highly technical programmer. Today, the term is often used synonymously...
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- Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw
- Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flawYou keep incorrectly blaming the advisories for the attacks"The latest twist in the ongoing attacks comes less than a week after Microsoft's pre-patch advisory provided clues for hackers to write and release detailed exploit code."You keep incorrectly blaming the advisories for the attacks...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- Debian locks out developers after server hack
- Debian locks out developers after server hackBWAHAHAHHAHA!!ROTFLMAO!!! BWAHAHHAHAHHAALOLLERSKATES!!!This is too funny!!! HAHAHAHAH I can't stop laughing!!!Debian locks out developers after server hackJust when I was feeling down about coming back to work I read this story and I completely feel better!! Just proves linux is not secure...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-14
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- East Anglia: Chapter 3
- Of course we are"The global warming skeptics are perfectly happy to overlook the illegality of the hacking and theft of private emails, according to this blogger."Sure, how else would this information have been made public. Many of the emails highlight to obfuscation of information, others point to the planning to...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-22
- iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded
- ... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Another torrent site slapped down
- The Internet is the TorrentAll sites are in the Torrent.You could even start an ISP in the Torrent if you wanted to.Everything is uploaded to the Torrent;that includes music,software and TV shows.When your stuff is in the Torrent it gets copyrighted and my guess is that you can receive Government...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-26
- Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack
- Feet on the street?In a crime where tens of thousands of credit card numbers and identifying information is stolen remotely from poorly configured databases, then sold on-line to other criminals, who then, presumably, use that information either for identity theft or straight credit card fraud, just where do you need...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Gonzales just tip of iceberg in Heartland attack
- Albert Gonzales, previously accused of breaking into TJX's computer systems, was indicted on charges that a separate group he was involved in breached Heartland Payment Systems. Also indicted but unidentified and still at large were "Hacker 1" and "Hacker 2," labels that suggest Thing 1 and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Alleged TJX hacker spun a wide web of cybercrime
- Just goes to show no one's doing their homeworkWe keep pushing computerized systems out further and further into important aspects of our lives, and yet the security portion isn't baked in and is really an afterthought. Put a national security slant on all of this, and the possibilities are...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Embedded Android code goes open source
- The Hackers Are At The GateThe viri that will follow will be amazing to watch.RE: Embedded Android code goes open sourceAs much as I hate to admit it.... your right. (even if you do use the word 'hacker' improperly. It's apparent you mean 'computer savvy criminal.')Not everyone who...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon
- Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Fake ATM, skimmers found in Las Vegas hotels
- A Google security researcher attending the Black Hat/DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas was victimized by a skimming device placed in an ATM at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Chris Paget, an RFID security expert who now works on Google's security team, said he lost $200 to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Cybercrime doesn't pay: well it does, and very well
- A large part of me is worried about writing this post because in some way, I could be considered as promoting the idea or inciting people to commit cybercrime. Well, that's not my intention as such - instead I'm taking a more back seat approach to denounce why people commit...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory Council
- Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory CouncilCrooks hire CrooksWhere else can a crook get a Job.Crooks in D.C. hire crooks to help the crooked Gov't do crooked things to help the crooked Banks and crooked companies the politicians award contracts to while decent people get rolled because they follow the...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout
- NCIS: Episode #140: BreakoutNCIS ScriptPaul, keep taking the medication mate.Paul, you really are losing it.If you were to assess laptop marketshare by what you see used on TV, then you could easily be forgiven for concluding NOBODY BUT Apple makes laptops!This clearly isnt the reality of the world - its...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-09
- Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM
- Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IMDo you think a Dean of Computer Science could write a dll?He'd try to say the word code then pass out cold.No problemAt least not my problem.It is still a Windows-specific problem.RE: Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IMwhen are people going to recognize...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Exploit code sends Mozilla scrambling to fix Firefox
- Exploit code sends Mozilla scrambling to fix FirefoxNot intended to be flame-bait butWhere are the howls of outrage that we'd see if this were IE8? RE: Exploit code sends Mozilla scrambling to fix FirefoxYou don't get howls cause it gets fixed too quick! That my friend is the difference. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- MWC 09: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, where
- MWC 09: Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints, whereRE: ... disappointed?"Linux is a disapointment as it is still not as user freiendly, and OSX is a disapointment in terms of operation and security issues."What does LLinux have to do with what the OP said?^o^You are a disapointment...for going off topic and bashing...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- BREAKING: Apple 'suing Wired' for tutorial on 'Hackintosh' netbook tutorial, author says
- BREAKING: Apple 'suing Wired' for tutorial on 'Hackintosh' netbook tutorial, author saysWell there is the notion that its apples fault...They deliberately chose to ignore the fact (esp. when moving over to the Intel platform) that people want to run the OS, but do not want to pay for the "Apple...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-14
- Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
- One would assume that popular sources for zero day vulnerabilities+Poc's such as Full-Disclosure, Bugtraq or Milw0rm are the primary sources for obtaining responsibly or irresponsibly released flaws. They'd be wrong. The black market for zero day vulnerabilities and the concept of over-the-counter OTC trade of zero day flaws, has been...
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
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