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8 Jul 9:00 pm
... numbers and encrypted PINs. The two allegedly provided the data to Gonzalez, who arranged with another hacker to decrypt the PIN codes.
Credit card companies later reissued some 200,000 ... than Chris [Scott] - if they could tie me to this case I'd be like [Kevin] Mitnick times
10 to them," he wrote. "Now, I honestly, honestly had ... faces a potential life sentence. James isn't the only old-school hacker to resurface
in connection with the growing wave of profit-oriented intrusions. New Yorker Stephen ...
28 Feb, 2008 9:25 pm
In a story at Wired.com today, I write about the FBI's hunt for Li'l Hacker, the blind, teenaged phone phreak in East Boston. Other phreakers
and party line participants describe ... a few times, and THREAT LEVEL played some recordings of Li'l Hacker in action for Kevin Mitnick, the undisputed king of social engineering. Mitnick says it's hard to fully ... 's moderately impressed. Here's one of the recordings. You can
rate Li'l Hacker's performance below, and read Mitnick's analysis after the jump. "He ...
16 Apr 9:33 pm
... show the FBI has quietly obtained court authorization to deploy the CIPAV in a wide variety of cases, ranging from major hacker
investigations, to someone posing as an FBI agent online. Shortly after its launch, the program became so popular with ... was sentenced to five years probation. The CIPAV also played a
previously-unreported role in an investigation of a prolific computer hacker who made headlines after penetrating thousands of computers at
Cisco, various U.S. national laboratories, and ...
3 Dec, 2007 5:01 pm
... of Texas. In his plea deal, he stipulated that he worked with Li'l Hacker to obtain "telephone numbers, pass phrases, employee
identification numbers, and employee account ... she didn't know what I was involved in." In court documents, the FBI accuses Li'l Hacker of,
in effect, hacking with his voice. He allegedly made more than 50 pretext ... Frontier Telecommunications in Rochester, New York, in October and November 2006. Li'l Hacker says he really just called a mysterious phone number somebody gave ...
31 Jul 11:49 am
... Asperger's Syndrome when ordering his extradition, and that British prosecutors should charge the hacker in Britain, where he lives. But
Judge Stanley Burnton said in a 41-page opinion ... his extradition, leading to a long string of legal proceedings and appeals that have turned the hacker into a cause célèbre in Britain, where he's seen as the hapless ... open up the door McKinnon's lawyers said they plan new appeals. The hacker's mother, Janis Sharp, went on British television Friday to ask President ...
3 Feb 11:43 am
... York and withdrew at least $2 million from Citibank accounts, sending 70 percent of the take back to a mysterious hacker kingpin in Russia.
Could all three breaches be the work of a single wealthy cybercrook sitting on piles of cash ... go from virtually unheard of into a multimillion dollar industry. In September, Canadian
police announced the arrest of Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum for allegedly penetrating the Calgary-based financial services company Direct Cash
Management and increasing the ...
14 Jan, 2008 4:14 pm
... and was forbidden from possessing or using encryption software, among other restrictions. A source with ties to the computer underground says hackers have recently boasted
about having access to MySpace's internal administrative tools. The source provided a screenshot of ... is also forming a safety task force to explore options for online age and
identify verification. Denizens of the online hacker forum DigitalGangster have been chortling over Weinberg's arrest. "Weinberg likes to pick
on people, ...
29 May, 2008 10:38 pm
... million people in eight states and a Canadian province. Careful examination of this photo reveals the "trees" are actually Chinese hackers. Courtesy NERC "Investigators
blamed 'overgrown trees' that came into contact with strained high-voltage lines near facilities ... The detailed 228-page final NERC report found a complex confluence of events
responsible, but not a single hacker. It traced the root cause of the outage to the utility company FirstEnergy's failure to trim back trees
encroaching on ...
9 Jun, 2008 10:21 pm
... after celebrating his 18th birthday, a blind, East Boston-based phone hacker has been arrested for paying a Sunday afternoon visit to the
Verizon security officer ... chasing him. Matthew Weigman, known on the telephone chat lines as Li'l Hacker, is charged in federal court in
Dallas with obstruction of justice after he was picked up by ... little surprise. As we reported last February, the FBI has been investigating the hacker since he was 15-years-old, at times courting him as an informant. Weigman ...
30 Jan 11:33 am
... to Smith at his house. To trick the security worker into picking up the phone, the hacker socially engineered phone company employees into
sharing Smith's billing ... his burly older brother. Smith felt intimidated and called the police, who arrested the hacker. Weigman is set for
sentencing on April 24. Under the terms of his plea agreement, ... Throws the Book at Phone 'SWATter': Five Years Prison Poll: How Good Is the Blind Hacker? Mitnick Weighs In Guilty Plea: Phone Phreaks Use Caller-ID Spoofing ...
29 Jun 4:28 pm
... Smith at his house. To trick the security worker into picking up the phone, the hacker socially engineered phone company employees into
sharing Smith's billing ... Sean Paul Benton. Smith felt intimidated and called the police, who arrested the hacker. Benton, who pleaded guilty
to conspiracy to obstruct justice, was sentenced Friday to 18 months ... Throws the Book at Phone 'SWATter': Five Years Prison Poll: How Good Is the Blind Hacker? Mitnick Weighs In Guilty Plea: Phone Phreaks Use Caller-ID Spoofing ...
16 Jan, 2008 2:43 pm
... Photoshop wage slave? You'd think. But when a reporter asked McCrory's staff about it, they revealed that an evil hacker had broken into
their computers and inserted the misspelling to sabotage the campaign. In the computer security world, ... contacted authorities. Then, a campaign spokeswoman, who was with McCrory as
he announced his candidacy in Jamestown, said there was no hacker after all -- that an overworked graphic designer had simply made a mistake
when designing the logo. That was not ...
23 Sep, 2008 6:12 pm
... 18-minute FBI training video that dramatizes the first -- though not the last -- recreational hacker attack to send the U.S. government
into a tizzy. The 1999 movie accurately details ... surprised he didn't turn that into something legit." (Photo: Wired.com/James Merithew) See Also: Israeli Hacker Known as "The Analyzer" Suspected of Hacking Again UK Hacker ... the Asperger's Card 'Cyberwar' and Estonia's
Panic Attack Did Hackers Cause the 2003 Northeast Blackout? Umm, No Air Force Colonel Wants to ...
3 Mar 3:36 pm
... celebrity to throw his weight behind 9/11 truther and admitted Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon, the U.K. man who's still fighting tooth and
nail ... Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Threat Level knows better than anyone that hackers in the United States are starting to face life-ruining sentences stretching to decades
in prison. McKinnon, ... McKinnon's "70-year" sentencing exposure on "terrorism charges." Even Sting worries that the hacker might take his own
life rather than go to jail "as a terrorist." He ...
27 Jun, 2008 5:38 pm
Cyber security consultant Paul Kurtz threw some cold water this week on a report that Chinese hackers caused the massive 2003 northeastern U.S. blackout. He worked for the White
House at the time of the outage. Careful examination of this photo reveals the "trees" are actually Chinese hackers. Courtesy NERC Last month the National Journal cited two
computer security professionals, who in turn cited unnamed U.S. intelligence officials, in ...
30 Jul, 2008 7:33 pm
... running track. Now he's looking at the same kind of sentence U.S. hackers get -- measured in years, not months, and based on the financial losses a jury finds ... 's fate is
alien to the United Kingdom -- but it upheld McKinnon's extradition order. The hacker now vows to take his case to the European Court of Human
Rights, which surely ... to do. See Also: British Press Frees McKinnon From Guantanamo, Puts Him in a Virginia Supermax British Hacker Gary
McKinnon Cries Guantanamo Too Much 'UFO Hacker' ...
12 Aug, 2008 9:44 pm
... that would sniff and store customer credit card numbers as they flew from cash registers to a processing server in North Carolina. The hackers' downfall was seemingly
straightforward. According to court records, Lowe's detected an intrusion and called in the FBI, who ... Gonzalez to threaten Salcedo, and the agency may have been unaware that its
informant was even dealing with the Lowe's hackers, says Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor. Rasch notes that it was the FBI, not ...
12 Nov, 2008 8:08 pm
... indicted last month in Los Angeles on new charges of creating the Agobot malware, and sharing it with a crew of U.S. hackers who used it to stage denial-of-service attacks in
2003. In September 2003, the source code for the much-anticipated Half Life 2game ... been breached. In a postto the company's web forum, Newell asked for gamer's assistance in finding
the hackers responsible. "If you have information about ... the infiltration of our network, please send the details," Newell wrote. "There ...
27 Aug 6:33 pm
... was primarily looking for evidence of a UFO cover up. McKinnon's lawyer admits the hacker intended the "temporary impairment" of some
systems, but not any damage. Of concern to ... mother believes her son is too vulnerable to survive U.S. federal custody. The hacker's
supporters in the U.K. include singers Peter Gabriel and Sting. If ... he caused, and other factors. See Also: British Pentagon Hacker Loses
Extradition Appeals Hacker with Asperger's Sentenced to 55 Months for Trucking Scheme Press Frees ...
10 Jul, 2008 9:48 pm
... on December 28, the same day she began receiving harassing phone calls from a hacker calling himself "V.I.P." -- a handle used by Weinberg
in the past. The calls continued over ... several days, and often took a threatening tone, she says. During that time, the hacker allegedly
disconnected Hilton's cellphone account, and took over her account ... calls. Weinberg was arrested after Hilton matched his mug shot to a photo the hacker had sent her. A charge of attempted extortion, and four other charges, ...
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