Security News

Wireless hackers take to the air
2002-08-20 12:39

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2202653.stm Monday, 19 August, 2002 Australian hackers have taken the practice of looking for open wireless networks to new heights. Before now many curious...

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...