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Comcast Defacer Sentenced to 4 Months
A former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Read the full article. Wired...
Kryogeniks Indicted for Comcast Hack
Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black Jr., 20, as the hackers “EBK” and “Defiant,...
Comcast Alerts Customers to PC Infections
CNet’s Elinor Mills has the scoop on a Comcast trial of a new automated service that will warn broadband customers of possible virus infections, if the computers are behaving as if they have been compromised by malware. For instance, a significant overnight spike in traffic being sent from a...
Comcast passwords left unprotected online
User names and passwords belonging to more than 8,000 Comcast Internet customers were left exposed on the Web for at least two months. A post by Brad Stone on the Bits blog NYTimes.com details the situation, which was exposed by a Comcast customer from Pennsylvania. Kevin Andreyo, an educational...
NETGEAR Comcast Comcast-supplied Default Password (deprecated)
Binary data 4876.prm...