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WikiLeaks-Loving Hackers Strike MasterCard, PayPal

Companies who shunned site targeted

(Newser) - WikiLeaks' bank accounts have been frozen, a host of companies have stopped doing business with it, and its founder is in custody, but is anybody coming to its defense? Step up, 4chan. "Anonymous," a group linked to the notorious message board, has launched denial-of-service assaults against firms that...

Internet Boots WikiLeaks&mdash;Temporarily
 Internet Boots 
 WikiLeaks—Temporarily 
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Dec 3, 2010 6:01 AM CST

Internet Boots WikiLeaks—Temporarily

Julian Assange's site moves to Switzerland

(Newser) - WikiLeaks' US domain host terminated its account last night, making the website inaccessible for the third time in a week ... but it's already back online. EveryDNS, which had hosted the wikileaks.org domain name for 4 years, said the site has become the target of multiple denial-of-service attacks, threatening EveryDNS's...

'Hacktivist': I Shut Down WikiLeaks

Fighter 'for the good' may be ex-military

(Newser) - A hacker’s tweets suggest his attacks disrupted WikiLeaks.org today, knocking out many of its pages, the Los Angeles Times reports. Calling himself Jester, a “hacktivist for the good,” the hacker tweeted “TANGO DOWN”—a military phrase for a defeated enemy—in posts about WikiLeaks....

Wikileaks 'Hacked Before Document Release'
 Hackers Mess With WikiLeaks 
Nov 29, 2010 3:07 AM CST

Hackers Mess With WikiLeaks

Denial-of-service attack took site offline yesterday

(Newser) - WikiLeaks says it came under cyberattack yesterday as it prepared to release huge numbers of classified American diplomatic cables. "We are currently under a mass denial-of-service attack," it said on its Twitter feed, adding that the information in the cables would be published in newspapers including the Guardian...

Palin Hacker Sentenced to 1 Year, 1 Day

Judge recommends halfway house, not jail

(Newser) - A man who was convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin's email during the 2008 presidential campaign has been sentenced to a year and a day, with the judge recommending the term be served in a halfway house, not prison. Federal Judge Thomas W. Phillips also said David Kernell, who was...

17-Year-Old: I Caused Twitter Meltdown

'I did it merely to see if it could be done,' says Pearce Delphin

(Newser) - Remember the "mouseover" bug that sent unwitting Twitter users to Japanese porn sites yesterday? Well, it was caused by a 17-year-old Australian schoolboy. Pearce Delphin says he was the first one to try the mouseover trick. "I did it merely to see if it could be done ... that...

Safari Flaw Leaves iPhone, iPad Open to Digital Hijackers

Mobile OS can automatically load malicious code

(Newser) - The iPad, iPod, and iPhone have a gaping security hole that hackers could easily exploit to hijack a device, security experts warn. Apple's mobile version of the Safari browser opens PDFs automatically, so all a hacker would need to do would be to embed malicious code in such a document....

FBI: Botnet Mastermind Nabbed
 FBI: Botnet Mastermind Nabbed 

Jul 28, 2010 4:45 AM CDT

FBI: Botnet Mastermind Nabbed

Slovenian accused of creating Mariposa malware

(Newser) - A hacker responsible for hijacking more than 10 million computers around the world has been arrested in Slovenia after a major international investigation, the FBI says. The 23-year-old hacker, known as "Iserdo," is accused of masterminding a scam in which the Mariposa "botnet" network infected computers belonging...

Apple Store Kacked
Apple Apps Store
Is Hacked
Jul 6, 2010 2:33 PM CDT

Apple Apps Store Is Hacked

Developers rejiggers sales data on ebooks

(Newser) - A developer of Apple applications for the Apple store managed to game the system and make it look as if his ebooks accounted for 42 of the top 50 books being sold on the site. It is unclear whether he hijacked other people's accounts or just faked sales data. Either...

Hacker Extorted Homemade Porn From Women

He stole sex tapes, then demanded more

(Newser) - Think you’ve been extremely careful with your secret sex tape? Well, don’t get too cocky, writes Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon . On Tuesday the FBI arrested 31-year-old Luis Mijangos, accusing him of hacking into more than 100 computers via malware disguised as popular songs, and searching them for amateur...

Have Some Malware With That Smartphone App

Malware sneaks in to smartphone software stores

(Newser) - The millions of apps available online have greatly expanded smartphones' capabilities—but at the price of security, cybercrime experts say. Google, Research in Motion, and Apple have all had to pull malicious or deceptive applications from their stores, but not before some had already been downloaded by scores of users,...

WikiLeaks Founder Shares His Secret Past

Paranoid Julian Assange says he grew up on the run from cult

(Newser) - Julian Assange is a paranoid man. The WikiLeaks founder believes he is constantly under surveillance, and that his site has enemies in governments around the world. Several members of his team are known by initials only, and the site's complex server system is “vastly more secure than any banking...

Palin Hacker Found Guilty on 2 Counts

David Kernell convicted of obstruction of justice, unlawful email access

(Newser) - A federal jury has convicted a 22-year-old former University of Tennessee student of hacking Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account during the 2008 campaign. David Kernell was acquitted of wire fraud but convicted of a felony, obstruction of justice, and a misdemeanor, unlawful computer access. The jury failed to reach a...

Bristol: Hacked Email Prompted Harassing Calls

Cell number online produced hundreds of prank calls, messages

(Newser) - Bristol Palin bore some of the brunt when her mother's email account was hacked during the 2008 presidential race, and her cell phone number posted online. She received countless phone calls and hundreds of text messages, she testified in court yesterday, including one really scary call from a group of...

Credit Card Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison

Albert Gonzalez stole 90 million credit, debit numbers

(Newser) - Albert Gonzalez, the man who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from American retail giant TJX, was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday. It is the longest-ever sentence for a computer crime in America. Prosecutors hope the sentence will serve as a deterrent. “What...

I'm a 'Kind Pirate,' Says Obama Twitter Hacker

Frenchman: I wanted to show system's vulnerabilities

(Newser) - The man who cracked Barack Obama's Twitter account says he was merely trying to point out security weaknesses in the system. Francois Cousteix, an unemployed 23-year-old from France, describes himself as a "kind pirate" who used low-tech methods of guessing passwords, often aided by info on the Facebook pages...

Fired Worker Hacks System, Disables 100 Cars Remotely

Ex-employee allegedly abused no-start system

(Newser) - More than 100 Texas drivers got an unexpected surprise late last month when their cars started honking inexplicably or simply stopped working. The hacker charged with causing the problems was arrested yesterday, Wired reports. Omar Ramos-Lopez used to work at the auto center that sold the cars—which were armed...

Latvian 'Matrix' Hacker Exposes Corrupt Gov't

'Neo' digging out damning documents

(Newser) - A hacker on a mission to expose greed and waste in high places is rapidly becoming a folk hero in recession-hammered Latvia. The hacker, who uses the name Neo from the hero in the Matrix film series, has exposed the salaries of top government officials online and revealed that managers...

Cyber Crooks Hiring Online
 Cyber Crooks Hiring Online 
Feb 4, 2010 1:46 AM CST

Cyber Crooks Hiring Online

Sites openly advertise for help spreading malware

(Newser) - Exciting work-from-home opportunities are being offered to tech geeks happy to break the law serving the scum of the Internet. Cyber crooks seeking to steal bank and credit card details are openly advertising for people to help spread malicious code by linking it to something people will click on, according...

New Security Flaws Found in Internet Explorer

Vulnerabilities spotted after release of security patch

(Newser) - An Internet security firm has found yet more serious "vulnerabilities" in Internet Explorer just days after Microsoft released a fresh security patch in the wake of a major hack attack. The browser—which was exploited by hackers in the recent wave of massive cyberattacks blamed on China—has weaknesses...

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