Second Dutch Teen Arrested Over Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Police in the Netherlands have arrested a second teenager in connection with the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks seen earlier this week. The arrest of the 19-year-old man follows Friday's attacks on websites belonging to the Dutch Police and the national prosecutor's...

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...

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...

Pump and Dump Hacker Gets 7-Year Sentence

An Indian national was sentenced to 81 months in prison for hacking into online brokerage accounts and using those accounts to manipulate stock prices for personal gain. Read the full article. Computerworld...

TJX Hacker Gets 20-Year Jail Sentence

Hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the “unparalleled” theft of millions of credit card numbers from major U.S. retailers. U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris...

Feds Seek 25-Year Sentence for TJX Hacker

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a recent court filing. Read the full...

Another TJX Accomplice Gets Nearly 4-Year Sentence

Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Read the full article. Wired...

CVE-2010-0553

Geo++ GNCASTER 1.4.0.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long NMEA data sentence...

CVE-2010-0553

Geo++ GNCASTER 1.4.0.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long NMEA data sentence...

CVE-2010-0553: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Geo++ GNCASTER 1.4.0.7 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long NMEA data sentence...

Founder of DarkMarket Faces Hefty Jail Time

A former London pizza delivery man, Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, faces a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for computer crime. Read the full article. The Register...