British hacker Gary McKinnon faces extradition to the USA

"British hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States." Although Gary McKinnon admits that he was able to gain access to sensitive networks in the USA, he was not malicious. He suffers from a mental disability, and hence...

American teenager pleads guilty to Scientology web attack

A 19-year-old American man has admitted knocking the Church of Scientology's websites offline in a series of electronic attacks in 2008. Dmitri Guzner of Verona, New Jersey pleaded guilty to charges of cybercrime against the religious organisation and related websites, which...

Diebold Admits Faulty Voting Machine Software

Premier Election Solutions (don't call them Diebold) has finally admitted that its vot-counting software is flawed. During the past several US elections, the company swore that everything was just fine, and took...

Giant server seized in raid on file-sharing site

One of the best known music sharing "services", The Pirate Bay, was amongst the catches today in Sweden: " STOCKHOLM - Police have made a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server during an apartment raid in a Stockholm suburb, an official...

Apple Embraces HDCP

Ever wonder why Apple switched to a new external dispay interface? HIgh-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) control. Long story short, it's a way to use monitors as DRM tools, preventing end users from...

God Bless You! Idioms for Those With the Cold and Flu Illness

" You wake up on a cold winter's morning and find you're feeling "under the weather." You're sneezing, coughing and hacking up a storm, signs that you'll be spending your day sick and "groggy.""

Japanese woman murdered virtual hubby in computer game faces £3,000 fine and...

What's the latest Virtual fad?"Online virtual marriage that lead to virtual divorce causing virtual avatar murder"  Sudden virtual divorce causes a Japanese women to go loco and now faces charges for hacking....

Gmail Flaw Makes Phishing Easy

A proof-of-concept hacking demonstration shows, once again, that there's no such thing as a "small" security flaw. In this case, Gmail contains a crack in its wall which allows phishers to squeeze in and spoof...

THE PARALLEL INTERNET: Is Big Brother Screening (Censoring) Political Blogs?

BLOGGER'S PREFACE: I often post to The Washington Post's "The Fix" political blog.  The following would not post last night.  After three attempts, I received a full-screen message that my post was "being held for approval by the blog owner."  I believe this...

Maserati Web site hacked during 'Omaha Steak' promotion

A 60-year old hacker obtained a customer database used for Maserati's Free Omaha Steak promotion and tried to blackmail the automaker into sending him money in exchange for the information. Check out the...

Bill O'Reilly site Hacked

Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly's website hacked " Two days after someone broke into the email account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, unknown intruders have hacked the website of conservative...

Man who beheaded bus seat mate defiled body, police tape says

"TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday. ...

Hack the Planet: Biggest Internet Security Hole in a Decade

Six months ago, security researcher Dan Kaminsky was looking for a faster way to host data on the internet. What he found was the biggest internet security hole in a decade... and today the exploit code has been...

Researcher Easily Steals Thousands of Identities

Sometimes security begins at the most simple level."A researcher performing social engineering exploits on behalf of several U.S. banks and other firms in the past year has “stolen” thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. Joshua Perrymon, hacking...

China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites

In perhaps what could be detrimental to Indo-China Peace talks, the growing number of Internet related threats through the forms of BOT attacks, key logging software and Mapping networks.Although there seems to be...

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