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- Who broke into Pentagon email? China or rogue hacker or ...
- Who broke into Pentagon email? China or rogue hacker or ...ARe they going to blame this one on McKinnon too?It seems like anybody can just wander in to the Pentagon's computers. McKinnon says that many of the servers were not even password protected.Obsolete data processing systemNo wonder almost anyone can...
- Tags: Hacking, Pentagon, McKinnon, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-06-25
- British court denies extradition for UK hacker who broke into US military computers
- The British High Court rejected hacker Gary McKinnons bid to fight extradition for pulling off the "biggest military computer hack of all time," the BBC reports. Hes accused of breaking into 97 US military and NASA computers. McKinnon argued that in the US he would...
- Tags: Law enforcement, International, Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- British ID thieves face jail time
- British ID thieves face jail timeAhhh, so that means......if you forget to lock your front door on your way to work one day, you should be convicted of negligence if someone steals your TV while you're away?In a perfect world, we shouldn't need security of any kind. Since this...
- Tags: identity theft, McKinnon, security
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- British hacker close to extradition to US
- Is Gary McKinnon the greatest military hacker of all time, or just your average geek conspiracy theorist, busting into Defense Dept. computers looking for proof of aliens? Those questions may be addressed in American courts as a British court recommended McKinnon be extradited to the US for trial, Reuters reports....
- Tags: McKinnon
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
- Alleged NASA hacker loses extradition ruling
- Alleged NASA hacker loses extradition rulinghe forgot about public stocks and a floggingWhat was he thinking and what did he expect?Welcome to the colonies!We have not forgotten King George III and the tyrannies of old. Your parliament still sends us a bill for the Tea Party every year, which...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, McKinnon, hacker, NASA
- Discussion threads 2006-05-10
- Congress takes on search companies over China
- Rebecca McKinnon is blogging live from the House hearings on Internet censorship in China. And there are others, including RedState, Tim Chapman, the right-wing Human Events Online, and even the Times. The story so far from McKinnon: Tom Lantos: “your abhorrent activities in China are a...
- Tags: U.S. Government, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?
- Over the course of a year, starting shortly after 9/11, British hacker Gary McKinnon, using the handle Solo, hacked into 96 Defense Dept. computers, effectively shut down the naval weapons center responsible for the Atlantic Fleet, and hacked into some 73,000 government computers. These are the charges the US government...
- Tags: computer
- Blog posts 2005-08-03
- Gary McKinnon: Scapegoat or public enemy?
- Gary McKinnon: Scapegoat or public enemy?Our Gov.'s IT is full of idiots knowing NOTHINGabout IT. They got what they deserved. He should be given an award for showing how weak the US IT infrastructure really is.Our Gov. and the IT personnel should be prosecuted for negligence!!!!LOL!Unemployed? After he...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Gary McKinnon, security, McKinnon, Egypt
- Discussion threads 2005-07-15
- Best Security Story of the Week
- Jo Best over at Silicon.com gets my vote for writing the most entertaining security story of the week.Two hilarious things about this story on Gary McKinnon, the UK's infamous NASA hacker who spent a lot of time roaming around NASA's network. First, his allogations that NASA has a bunch of...
- Tags: hacker, NASA, McKinnon
- Blog posts 2005-07-12
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- Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?
- Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?MS Windows on Military PC's??You know, the kid could be faulty of being discovered doing Hack on the USA Goverment PC's, but the worst part is that they are using MS Windows in their Computers as their main...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Hacking, SECURITY, FOUR-YEAR, hacker, computer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- Who broke into Pentagon email? China or rogue hacker or ...
- Hackers broke into Defense Department systems and caused an email outage that disrupted email service for 1,500 employees, reports Ars Technica."Elements of the OSD unclassified email system were taken offline yesterday afternoon, due to a detected penetration," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, according to a transcript of the event...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- British hacker loses U.S. extradition appeal
- British hacker loses U.S. extradition appealGary should NOT be extraditedHaving been in touch with Gary's mother Gary himself is prohibited from using email and Internet connected computers it seems that Ed Gibson during a secret conversation at the American Embassy told Gary's legal team of New Jersey's determination "to...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, British Hacker, Gary McKinnon, Gary
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Alleged NASA hacker's appeal set for New Year
- Alleged NASA hacker's appeal set for New YearI am sooo glad tooyour pettiness makes more sense.Deserve PunishmentThe man should face the judge & jury and take it like a manWhats so wrong with itits not like any harm has come of it, nasa seems to be working ok, this guy...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, NASA, hacker, firewall
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- Researcher raided by FBI for blowing whistle on Airport security
- Researcher raided by FBI for blowing whistle on Airport securityGet your own facts straight![i]"It's Mathias not Mathius"[/i]Sorry - I didn't understand that such a trivial spelling mistake could change the entire meaning of the post.[i]"He was escorted by military planes on either side ready to shoot him down."[/i]No he wasn't....
- Tags: Federal government, FBI, security, airport security
- Discussion threads 2006-10-29
- UK hacker fights extradition
- The British computer hacker who broke into dozens of US government and military computers is fighting extradition to the US, the BBC reports. He says he will appeal his extradition to the European High Court of Human Rights, if necessary. One American prosecutor alleged he had carried out...
- Tags: extradition
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
- U.K. agrees to extradite alleged hacker to U.S.
- U.K. agrees to extradite alleged hacker to U.S.Do you know what Gary McKinnon files are about?Gary McKinnon, UK hacker, hacked Nasa and US military computer networks has spoken to the BBC about his experiences.[b]Watch[/b]:http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4970000/newsid_4979700/bb_rm_4979716.stmor [b]Read[/b]:Spencer Kelly: Here's your list of charges: you hacked into the Army, the Navy, the Air...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, General Motors Corp., NASA
- Discussion threads 2006-07-06
- Hacking 101
- In what must be a first at any university, Scotland's Dundee's Abertay University is offering Britain's first degree in computer hacking, reports The Scottish Daily Record The "ethical hacker" course at will teach students how to find passwords and log-ins and bring down systems. The aim is to produce...
- Tags: hacker
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Alleged NASA hacker to hear fate next month
- Alleged NASA hacker to hear fate next monthPut him to work paying the money back #####################################[b]MAKE HIM PAY FOR ALL THE DAMAGES ANDPUT HIM IN PRISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/b]What about the people in charge of securing those systems?I'm sure they have the typical government-required credentials: They know someone and needed a job.Apparently,...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Workforce management, NASA, hacker
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
- Arguing about arguing about China
- Harry Tsao, co-founder of a comparison shopping Web site with operations in China, says in a ZD Net editorial. "It is hard to see anything constructive that will come out of these public discussions." If companies do start spending time lobbying, rather...
- Tags: CHINESE, censorship
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- Google's Schmidt at World Economic Forum: 'We did an evil scale'
- InfoWorld reporter Stacey Cowley writes: It took Google Inc. more than a year to make the decision that offering a censored version of its search services in China would be a lesser evil than boycotting business in the country altogether, according...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
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