Security News

NASA investigating hacker theft of sensitive documents
2002-08-09 06:28

Forwarded from: William Knowles http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/hacking/story/0,10801,73305,00.html By DAN VERTON AUGUST 08, 2002 WASHINGTON -- NASA cybercrime investigators are...

Hackers to corporate America: You're lazy
2002-07-19 16:01

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,72802,00.html By DAN VERTON JULY 18, 2002 When a group of Web vandals hacked into the Web site of USA Today on July 11 and...

ATM hackers sentenced in Russia
2002-04-23 07:12

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/373274p-3003779c.html MOSCOW (April 22, 2002 7:34 p.m. EDT) - Two leaders of a hackers' group that manipulated cash machines in Moscow to make off with...

Hacker exposes financial information at Georgia Tech
2002-03-19 07:36

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69213,00.html By BRIAN SULLIVAN March 18, 2002 State and federal authorities are investigating a hack into a computer server at the...

The secret life of hackers
2002-03-18 08:17

http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/03/19/FFXL5GK5XYC.html Tuesday 19 March, 2002 By Suelette Dreyfus Were you to work in a certain Federal Government agency, every morning you walked through the...

Payback time! How to catch a hacker
2002-01-31 10:08

Forwarded from: security curmudgeon I'm sure everyone will remember hackerwatch.org from last year, when they were the victim of an embarassing defacement. Commentary:...

Accused Los Alamos hacker freed, barred from using computers
2002-01-30 09:42

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/232587p-2233872c.html SAN JOSE, Calif. (January 29, 2002 9:44 p.m. EST) - A former Los Alamos National Laboratory computer specialist accused of hacking...

Web hackers hit US via Taiwan
2002-01-11 18:41

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/01/11/story/0000119478 Friday, January 11th, 2002 WORLDWIDE CRIME: A Pakistan-based group of hackers claims to have obtained top-secret data from Web sites in...

Instant Messenger flaw fixed; hackers criticized for little warning
2002-01-04 11:03

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/209997p-2027064c.html By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (January 3, 2002 1:07 p.m. EST) - As AOL Time Warner engineers opened their presents...

Hacker targets Globe website
2001-12-25 08:51

http://www.inq7.net/brk/2001/dec/24/brkinf_1-1.htm Posted: 7:20 PM (Manila Time) | December 24, 2001 By Joey G. Alarilla INQ7 ONE of the local hackers who claimed responsibility for defacing...