Gary McKinnon, the self-confessed pot-smoking, Asperger's-diagnosed British hacker who went by the nickname "Solo", and who hacked into several U.S. military computer systems (including at the Pentagon and NASA) and now faces extradition to the U.S. to stand trial, has none other than former hostage and Anglican envoy Terry Waite pulling for him.
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Articles on HackingGary McKinnon, the self-confessed pot-smoking, Asperger's-diagnosed British hacker who went by the nickname "Solo", and who hacked into several U.S. military computer systems (including at the Pentagon and NASA) and now faces extradition to the U.S. to stand trial, has none other than former hostage and Anglican envoy Terry Waite pulling for him. Stupid users are the worst problem on the Internet, according to this survey of more than 600 Internet users. A breaking news report (why is it breaking in England, not here in the U.S.?) reveals that millions of Citibank customers' accounts are at risk as a result of what the London Times is calling the "biggest and most effective remote PIN code theft scam in US banking history." Ah, the audacity of hopeless childish pranks. The long and drawn-out contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to seek the Democratic nomination has for the last few weeks descended into trench warfare. The slinging of barbs and arrows is carried out on every media, including online, where an enterprising Clinton supporter recently hacked the Obama web site; visitors to the community blogs section were redirected to the Clinton web site. A new hack has Wordpress hackers disabling all of your Wordpress plugins (including, you see, Akismet or any other anti-spam comment spam stopper plugin), which then allows them to inject comment spam into your blog at will. So if you suddenly find yourself getting an enormous amount of comment spam all at once, or if you suddenly find your blog pages coming up blank (because with your plugins disabled, that often can be the case) you may be the victim of this latest plugin-disabling comment spam hack. Last month someone hacked the DNS for the Transportation Authority of Marin (TAM) - a California state agency which lives at tam.ca.gov - allowing the hackers to use the TAM system to redirect traffic to some porn sites. As a result, the Federal government dropped the entire state of California's Internet domain from the entire DNS system! Do you want to stay connected via ssh to a remote computer, even when you're idle? Whether you are on a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, don't you just hate it when you are connected to a remote system via ssh, and you do something in another window, only to find when you return to your ssh session that you've been automatically disconnected by the remote system, and you have to log in all over again? Here's how make it so that you can stay connected to the remote computer with ssh no matter how long you are idle. The Superbowl Trojan, as some are calling it, has been implanted on dozens of Super Bowl related websites, and is installing itself on any Windows computer that happens to visit any of the Super Bowl sites without adequate protection. The Super Bowl Trojan allows the hacker to take full control over any of these infected Windows PCs by connecting the machine to dv521.com, downloading the W1C.exe file, and installing the Wow-PK Trojan. Chris Hughes has created a video of how to control your Roomba vacuum with your Nintendo Wii remote control - as Roomba hacks go it's a good one - and the video is taking the Internet by storm. Oh, and if you want to try this Roomba hack at home, Chris has also provided the source code! While it remains to be seen whether the Microsoft Zune will be the iPod killer that they hope it to be, there is one way in which it has already taken the lead: Zune hacks. The Zune can be hacked (i.e. modified) in many ways, while most are afraid to hack their iPod at all. The 2B1 "one laptop per child" initiative, also known as the $100 laptop project, is looking for experienced hackers to try to hack the $100 2B1 laptop, so that they can trouble shoot its security issues. But what I want to know is, how many of those laptops will stay with the children, and how many will get sold by their families for food? A new report out by online security firm Symantec indicates that the fastest and largest growing sector of online security attacks are attacks against home users and their computers. Hometown Favorites is being used as phish bait, and it appears that someone has breached their customer list. The phish being sent out in their name warns customers that "We recently tried to charge your credit card for your HomeTownFavorites.com order, and it was rejected by the bank because it has no complete infomation." TorrentSpy, run by Valence Media, has accused the MPAA of hacking into their computers by hiring an ex-employee, Robert Anderson, to hack into their servers. Not uncoincidentally, TorrentSpy was on the receiving end of a lawsuit by the MPAA just a few months previous. Gary McKinnon, the hacker known as "Solo", who infamously hacked into NASA and Pentagon computers, and who claimed that once there he found dozens of other hackers, and proof of aliens, has lost his fight against extradition to the United States for prosecution. Key clicks and other keyboard sounds reveal everything you are typing, all with a simple decoding program which turns keyclicks into their associated letters. In fact, the keyboard clicks allow spies to very accurately determine what you are typing. Researches say that keyboard click spying has a 96% accuracy. The Defonic Crew, also known as the Defonic Team Screen Name Club, or just DFNCTSC for short, is the hacking group to which the young hacker who hacked Paris Hilton's Sidekick belonged. Now the youngest member of Defonic Crew has pleaded guilty to the hacking. The implications are staggering. Internet security software company Sunbelt Software was investigating CoolWebSearch, a spyware package, when they noticed that stowing away in the CoolWebSearch download were two trojans, a spam zombie engine, and a keystroke logging program. It was the ... Aunty has had several people ask her recently what "Bluejacking" is. Bluejacking is really just another name for Bluespam, or for what the Car Whisperer does. Wikipedia defines "Bluejacking" as "the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile ... Meet the Car Whisperer. Aunty told you it could happen. Remember the BlueSniper "Rifle" which could sniff out and Bluejack Bluetooth devices up to a half-mile away? And the Bluetooth Bluespam being sent to movie-goer's phones? [Oh sure, ... Hacking and politics have contrived to make strange bedfellows. According to a report by the British news organization, The Sun, hackers have come forward and started to take down web sites which are fomenting terrorism, and inciting terrorist acts - something ... Are the Chinese stealing U.S. corporate trade and other secrets through the use of computer worms and trojans? According to at least one security expert, the answer is "yes". Joe Stewart, with U.S. security company Lurhq, claims that a new worm called "Myfip" is being ... The concept of "first, do no harm" apparently doesn't extend to those who provide support services for doctors, as a founder of a medical answering service has been charged with hacking into a competitor's service, and rearranging the system so that calls to ... Gary McKinnon, the extra-terrestrial-seeking Nasa hacker who was apprehended last month, has explained how he managed to hack into Nasa's computers, along with those of several other government agencies, and what he found there. According to the 39-year old ... The University of California at San Diego announced this week that hackers have again broken into their computer system, compromising the personal data of thousands of UCSD students, staff, and faculty. The UCSD machines which the hackers accessed contained the trifecta payload ... Following this year's rash of personal data security breaches, starting with the ChoicePoint and Lexis-Nexis leaks, and culiminating with the CardSystems hack and exposure of the credit card information of more than 40million customers, Democratic Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy has teamed up with ... As Aunty reported last week, the personal data of 40 million consumers was compromised when CardSystems Solutions had their computer system hacked. CardSystems provides back-end processing for MasterCard and Visa transactions. Now a lawsuit has been filed in San Francisco against CardSystems, requesting ... Some interesting observations about the recent CardSystems hack in this news release: SAN FRANCISCO, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- A week after CardSystems Solutions, Inc. disclosed that thieves made off with credit-card information affecting up to 40 million cardholders, the company has ... In case you were listening to the radio or televion news today, yes, you heard it right, and your ears were not deceiving you. The credit card information of 40 million MasterCard and Visa cardholders was compromised when someone hacked into the ... A mock trial, in which ISPs were sued for damage done by a zombie network to a few fictitious companies' business and financial interests, found that a jury of IT professionals overwhelmingly held the opinion that the ISPs were not responsible for the ... Gary McKinnon, Nasa's ET hacker, has been arrested in London. Online security company Secunia has said this week that versions of Firefox and Mozilla, as well as the lesser known Camino, are again at risk for a frame injection security flaw which has dogged Mozilla on and off for nearly seven years. The problem, ... Talk about spyware versus spyware. Authorities in Isreal have arrested dozens of people, including high level executives of multinational corporations, in what increasingly is developing into the Internet Trojan spyware custerfluck of the year. Only on the Internet can a Trojan ... Stanford University has joined that special inner circle - no, not the top tier schools - those which have had their computer systems hacked and data compromised. Earlier this month a hacker broke in to the Stanford Career Development Center's computer, compromising ... Federal authorities are investigating what they have dubbed an "Internet infection" which holds personal computer files hostage for ransom. This Internet infection is the first known instance of a virus or other malware which gets onto your computer, locks up your files, ... In what may be the biggest leak of personal data to date, police are reporting that a whopping 676,000 bank customers have had their personal information stolen from Bank of America, Wachovia, Commerce Bancorp, and PNC Financial Services. B of A has ... Groups and individuals being dubbed as Internet vigilantes are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to phishers and their phishy sites, and are using their hacking powers for good (they would argue) by hacking into phishing sites and defacing and ... As many of the Internet Patrol's regular readers know, Paris Hilton's Sidekick was hacked, and the data was posted to the Internet, several months ago. And they also know that one Nicholas Lee Jacobsen pleaded guilty to the T-Mobile hacking ... That gaping hole in Tiger's Dashboard is no air vent - it's a wide-open, highly exploitable security threat for users of Apple's newest version of OS X for Mac. And we have Stephan.com's Zaptastic and Goatse widgets to thank for showing us ... Aunty told you about wifi hotspot evil twins, but you didn't quite believe her, did you? Well, attendees of the Wireless LAN Event in England this past week are believers now, after hackers infiltrated the conference, and set up an evil twin hotspot right ... A St. Petersburg, Florida veterinarian nailed a wardriver he caught parked outside his home, jacked into his Internet connection. Realizing that there was someone surreptitiously using his Internet connection, the unnamed veterinarian called St. Petersburg police, who quickly came and arrested Benjamin ... There has been a lot about "pharming", which is another term for DNS poisoning, also known as DNS cache poisoning, in the news lately. But what exactly is DNS poisoning? Put simply, DNS cache poisoning is when a DNS server is ... Does your favourite wifi hotspot have an evil twin? How would you know an evil twin wi-fi hotspot if you saw one? Just what is a wifi hotspot evil twin, anyways? Remember the Patty Duke show? When Patty and her identical ... Joining the ranks of Choicepoint and LexisNexis, Ameritrade and Ralph Lauren (Polo) have both acknowledged that private data belonging to their customers has been compromised, meaning that those customers could be at risk for identity theft. Also, LexisNexis this week announced that ... War driving is back in the news. It seems that the news outlets are only just now (re)discovering what war drivers have known for ages: war driving is hot. It's more than just the brute desire for open access to someone else's computer network, their Internet connection, or even their personal information which drives wardriving (although these are certainly a large part of it). It's also the thrill of the game. If you have ever looked at any of your stored Windows passwords, you know that they are encrypted and look nothing like your actual password. That is because your system "hashes" the password, and the resulting gobbleygook is in fact known as ... The BlueSniper Bluetooth sniffing and hacking "sniper rifle" is truly the Bluetooth hacker's Bluetooth hack. Equipped with a yagi antenna, and powered by a little bitty Gumstix motherboard, the BlueSniper can detect vulnerable Bluetooth devices up to a kilometer away. ... Lexis Nexis has been compromised and has hemorrhaged the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals whose data was stored with Lexis Nexis. Identity theft is a real possibilty for these people. Many will remember that this exact same thing ... Remember the MBA applicants who hacked in to the admissions database for Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and other business schools? Well, the dean of Harvard's business school has indicated that any applicant who hacked in to find out their application results ... Fred Durst, frontman for rock band Limp BizKit, is finding himself in a new leading role, in a sex video in which Durst is seen having sex with an unidentifed woman, and which has been posted to the Internet by someone calling themselves ... Dozens of future MBA students flunked their first business ethics test when they hacked in to the admissions information for Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Dartmouth, among others, following instructions which had been written by a hacker calling himself "brookbond". Brookbond, after determing ... Remember the man who used his webcam and free webcam software to catch a burgler? In a twist, a peeping Tom has been caught spying on girls using their own webcams, connected to their own computers. He was able to do ... Do you remember when Aunty told you that ChoicePoint had been hacked, leading to dozens of thousands of people having their private information which had been stored on ChoicePoint's servers compromised, including credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other personal information? And do ... What do you think the hot news is on the mean streets of the Internet? The Apple lawsuit against pre-med student Vivek "Desicanuck" Sambhara for putting a beta version of Mac OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") on Bit Torrent? The teenager who ... Yes, it's true. During the time that the Tmobile system supporting the Tmobile Sidekick was hacked by Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, who just pleaded guilty for the Tmobile hacking, one of the accounts to which he had access was none other than ... Those of you who recall Aunty telling you about the T-Mobile Sidekick hacker will be interested to know that not only has he been apprehended, but he has pleaded guilty. Twenty-one year old Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, an engineer now living in Oregon, formerly of ... As many as 35,000 Californians may have had their credit card numbers, social security numbers, and other personal information compromised when hackers accessed identification and credential verification service provider ChoicePoint's data servers. Hacks into ChoicePoint's system have already lead to six documented cases of ... And here Aunty thought that public school education in our country had gone down hill. Apparently our public schools are in fact turning out students well-suited to the demands of the next generation of technologists - or a life of crime. A sixteen-year-old ... I'm a big fan of the T-Mobile Sidekick, nee "Danger Hiptop". I carry mine with me wherever I go (well, almost). Once thought of as the poor man's Blackberry, the Sidekick has really come into its own, offering all if not ... Internet service provider Panix.com found that their entire domain was hijacked over the weekend. The ISP, which serves the greater New York City area, found that the domain had been moved from their own registrar to one in Australia, that their DNS ... A hacker has compromised the personal information and identification of as many as 32,000 users whose details were stored on computers at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia. The computer system which was compromised was that holding all of the information associated with university ... In addition to the critical fix for the Help flaw which implicated Active X, and which Aunty posted about here, Microsoft today announced two additional security patches for Windows users. The first one involves both a cursor and icon handling vulnerability, along with a ... Not a moment too soon, Microsoft has announced a fix for that pesky "help flaw" involving ActiveX which Aunty first reported on here and again here just yesterday. Making this flaw even more devestating than some others is the fact that it affects so ... Security company Secunia, Inc. has raised the security threat warning for recently revealed Internet Explorer 6 security flaws to "extremely critical", their highest threat level. This is the result of yet another "security" site publishing yet another set of instructions for how to exploit ... Some of you may remember when infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick was all over the news. Mitnick spend a bit over 5 1/2 years in prison for his hacking exploits. Well, a Michigan man has just received the longest prison sentence ever handed down ... |
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