Texas Man Indicted for Hacking Eden Prairie Business, Stealing $274,000

A federal indictment unsealed earlier today alleges that a 35-year-old Texas man hacked into the computer network of an Eden Prairie business, stealing approximately $274,000. The indictment, filed in Minneapolis on October 13, 2010, charges Jeremy Parker of Houston, Texas, with one count of...

Kentucky Resident Charged and Sentenced for Hacking !

HOPKINS COUNTY, KY – As technology advances by leaps and bounds on a daily basis, a Kentucky man has utilized his extensive computer skills to gain money, but ended up gaining three years of probation with the initial 300 days spent in a work release center. Walter Puckett, a 40 year old...

Sightseeing Firm Overlooks Security, 110k Credit Card Numbers Stolen

CitySights owner Twin America says the credit card details of 110,000 customers were stolen in a Web based attack and suggests it wasn’t following Payment Card Industry guidelines for storing card data. The parent company of the CitySights sightseeing tours company, Twin America LLC, said in a...

FBI Investigates Gawker Media Hack Claimed by Gnosis

The FBI is investigating the massive hack of Gawker Media. Reports indicate that FBI agents met with Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton on Monday following the hacking incident, which was claimed by a group called Gnosis. The Gawker website was paralyzed, temporarily forcing the gossip site to stop...

Michael Calce Warns of Online Dangers at HDS Canada's Forum

The guest keynote speakers at technology conferences can vary in quality, but Hitachi Data Systems HDS Canada NYSE: HIT made a smart choice by inviting Michael Calce, also known as Mafiaboy, to speak at their recent Information Forum event in Toronto. Calce gained notoriety as a teenage hacker fr...

HP Storage Hardware Harbors Secret Back Door

HP has acknowledged a security issue with storage area networking equipment after reports surfaced about a hard-coded “back door” account. Hewlett Packard said in a statement that it has identified a “potential security issue” with one of its storage area networking SAN products and is readying a...

Experts: OpenBSD Backdoor Allegations 'Almost Certainly False'

The incredible allegations that developers working under the auspices of the FBI and Justice Department planted a backdoor in the IPSec stack of the OpenBSD operating system are likely just that, experts say: not credible. “There is no way that the FBI paid anyone to create backdoors in OpenBSD a...

FBI Uses Facebook to Catch Baltimore Terrorist

Gathering evidence on Facebook has become a standard legal practice, so a social sting operation was inevitable. This method led the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI to apprehend a would-be terrorist in Baltimore. An FBI informant initially contacted 21-year-old Antonio Martinez after he...

Man Arrested Selling Classified Documents to FBI

The Washington Post is reporting that Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin was arrested sometime last week on suspicion of stealing classified documents from military networks and attempting to sell them to a foreign agent. Martin is a Navy specialist at the Joint Special Operations Command. He has...

Alleged Mega-D Botnet Controller Pleads Not Guilty

The man accused of running the Mega-D spam-spewing botnet has pleaded not guilty to charges that he was using the botnet to send millions of spam messages a day, some of them laden with malware. Oleg Nikolaenko was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin on Friday on charges that he violate...

FBI Arrests Alleged Head of Mega-D Botnet Operation

The FBI has arrested the man that they allege is behind the notorious Mega-D botnet, which at one point accounted for nearly a third of all of the spam on the Internet. The arrest came to light this week after the man was caught entering the U.S. last month on his way to a car show. The man that...

Hacker blackmailed women into making porn movie !!

A CALIFORNIA man has been charged after he allegedly hacked into more than 100 computers to look for sexually explicit photos that he then used to blackmail his victims into handing over homemade sex tapes. Luis Mijangos, 31, was charged with extortion after he allegedly infected more than 100...

FBI Warns of Rising Smishing and Vishing Scams This Holiday Season

Social networking sites and search engines are expected to face increased cybercriminal activity this holiday season. However, the FBI is also warning consumers about two other significant threats: “smishing” and “vishing” scams. Both smishing and vishing are forms of phishing. Smishing involves...

NYT Goes Deep On Albert Gonzalez Story

You might think everything that needed to be said already has been said about Albert Gonzalez, the mastermind behind the largest public computer security breaches in U.S. history. But the lengthy and up close account of Gonzalez in the New York Times today shows that there are more layers to what...

FBI Arrest Over 100, Uncovers Cyber Crime Ring

The FBI announced last week that it had busted a major international cyber crime network after arresting more than 90 suspected members of the ring in the US alone. The FBI said that the suspects worked as so-called mules for hackers, who were based in Eastern Europe and used malware to hack US...

Feds Raid Home of Former Raytheon Employee

Federal agents on Monday raided the Melrose, Massachusetts home of a missile systems expert who formerly worked at U.S. defense contractor Raytheon. Several boxes of items were taken by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the home, which is owned by Richard M. Lloyd. According...

FBI Warns Businesses About Bank Fraud Scams

The FBI is warning businesses about the rash of scams that attack crews are using to target their bank accounts and drain them. The scams themselves are nothing new, but the FBI says that they’re becoming more prevalent and sophisticated as the attackers adjust their tactics. The warning from the...

Mobile Credits Used as Phishing Lure

Customers of an Italian bank were lured into a phishing scam with promises of mobile phone airtime credits, according to a blog post from analyst Mathew Maniyara on Symantec’s Connect blog. According to Maniyara, phishers posing under the guise of an Italian bank, are using a U.S.-based Web site ...

В США задержаны 11 хакеров из России

Они входили в преступную группу, похитившую из американских банков 3 млн долларов Дмитрий ГОНЧАРУК, Никита КРАСНИКОВ — 05.10.2010 Еще шесть граждан России были задержаны в США по обвинению в причастности к команде мошенников, которая воровала деньги с банковских счетов. Гражданство других девяти...

HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth)

New York City, New York, U.S. A production of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Hackers on Planet Earth or HOPE is in its 18th year give or take a couple and offers an utterly unique blend of technology, culture and media. Previous HOPE events have seen speakers like private investigator Steve Rambam...