NYT Profiles LulzSec's Sabu As Talented Hacker With Star-Crossed Life

Hector Xavier Monsegur or “Sabu,” de facto ringleader of the notorious Anonymous Internet Collective, was not merely a talented hacker. He was also something of a Robin Hood of the East Side projects and a hard-partying nuisance to his neighbors, a report by the New Yok Times claims. A report fin...

Facebook Hacking - Student jailed for eight months

Facebook Hacking - Student jailed for eight months 26-year-old Glenn Steven Mangham, a student in the UK, has been sentenced to eight months in prison for hacking into Facebook from his bedroom at his parents house. Facebook spent $200,000 £126,400 dealing with Mangham's crime, which triggered a...

French MP Valerie Boyer's website hacked by Turkish hackers

French MP Valerie Boyer's website hacked by Turkish hackers Hackers have attacked the website www.valerie boyer.fr of French parliamentarian Valerie Boyer, the author of the bill criminalizing genocide denial that was recently adopted by the French National Assembly. The hackers posted a Turkish...

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...

Researchers Warn of Prison Hacks, Opening Cell Doors

Remote hackers springing inmates from their jail cells — it sounds like a plot lifted from an old episode of “24” or “Prison Break.” But authorities are concerned by new research that claims such an attack is feasible. Research presented at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami last month by John...

Researchers Warn of Prison Hacks, Opening Cell Doors

In news that seems like it could be lifted from an old 24 or Prison Break plotline, authorities are concerned by new research that claims hackers could remotely open the cell doors of federal prisons. In addition to staging a jailbreak, hackers could sabotage a prison’s intercom system and...

Suspect in "Hackerazzi" Case Says He Will Plead Guilty

A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson. According to a copy of the indictment PDF, Christopher Chaney of...

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front PLF associated with Anonymous hacktivism. The logs maintained by HideMyAss.com, in addition to other evidenc...

14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft

14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft A 21 year old man received a 14 year prison sentenced on Friday for running an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information with losses estimated at more than $3 million. Tony Perez III, of Hammond, Indiana,...

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges A Harvard researcher Aaron Swartz has been arrested in Boston for broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a non-profit online service for distributing scholarly articles, and downloaded 4...

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee...

Bangladeshi young man jailed for cyber crime !

Accused youth created a Facebook account in the name of the girl and uploaded nude photos of the victim A Bangladesh court sent a young man charged for cyber crime and cyber bullying to prison on Saturday. Shakil Ahmed, 23, created a Facebook account in the name of his victim and uploaded photos,...

Texas Man admits hacking into e-commerce servers of NASA !

A Texas man has admitted hacking into servers owned by an e-commerce company and making off with about $275,000. Jeremey Parker of Houston also copped to charges of breaking into servers maintained by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and causing some $43,000 of damage. The hacking...

Two Arrested For Hacking Accounts, Card Cloning !

South District Police has arrested a gang of miscreants and arrested two people accused of hacking accounts for international clients' and to make a clone of your bank or credit cards of different banks. The third defendant is untraceable. A gang of three youths, who are experts at hacking into...

Two men charged for Hacking into AT&T Website !

Two men were arrested on Tuesday and are facing charges of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization, following an investigation that started with last year's much publicized harvesting of e-mails and AT&T authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple's iPad. Accordi...

Rapper Lil Wayne's Twitter account hacked !!

Rapper Lil Wayne has become the latest victim of web hackers when his Twitter account was compromised by an internet prankster. The 28-year-old hip hop star has suspended his Twitter account after the hacker sent a number of objectionable messages to his fans and followers, reported Contactmusic...

Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacker Begins Prison Term !

A former University of Tennessee student convicted of hacking the e-mail account of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign has begun his one-year sentence in an unfenced federal prison camp in Kentucky, authorities said Thursday. According to a statement issued ...

Dongfan "Greg" Chung (Boeing)

Chung, a 72 year old engineer from Orange, California was charged with eight counts of economic espionage in 2008. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice, Chung, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had secret clearance for work on the U.S. Space Shuttle program that he performed as an...

Fei Ye and Ming Zhong (Transmeta, Sun Microsoystems, NEC and Trident Microsystems)

Ye and Zhong were alleged to have obtained trade secrets, including designs for super integrated circuit chips from a variety of Silicon Valley firms through a front company, Supervision, Inc. a/k/a Hangzhou Zhongtian Microsystems Company Ltd. The two posed as legitimate businessmen interested in...