Hacking

Dmitriy Guzner: Teen Sentenced In Scientology Cyber Attack

AP | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology


NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in Jan...

Cyber Attacks: 80 Percent Are Preventable, Senate Panel Told

wired.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Technology


If network administrators simply instituted proper configuration policies and conducted good network monitoring, about 80 percent of commonly known cy...

Hotmail Passwords: Thousands Leaked, Could Be Part Of Bigger Hacker Haul

Register | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology


In all, there were 10,028 pairs of user names and passwords posted to multiple pages of public upload website Pastebin.com, some of which remained liv...

Gary McKinnon's Mother Appeals To Obama For Mercy

Huffington Post | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


Janis Sharp, the mother of a British hacker who the United States intends to extradite for "the biggest military computer hack ever," issued a compell...

Hackers Go Mobile: Is Your Cell Phone Prepared?

Chris Brassington | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business


Chris Brassington

Make sure you are aware of the sheer extent of personal data you are storing and exchanging on your mobile, and take steps to prevent that from getting into the wrong hands

Why China's Green Dam Proposal Endangers American Technology and Human Rights

Gary Shapiro | Posted 07.24.2009 | World


Gary Shapiro

When any government demands control of its citizens' computers, the world must take note. I urge the technology community to tell Beijing that control through mandatory software is unacceptable.

Cyberattackers Winning The Online Security War

New York Times | JOHN MARKOFF | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business


Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it. Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade st...

Russian Gang Hijacking PCs In Vast Criminal Scheme

New York Times | John Markoff | Posted 08.13.2008 | Business


A criminal gang is using software tools normally reserved for computer network administrators to infect thousands of PCs in corporate and government n...