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RSS hacker fridayCredit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News A 28-year-old Miami man who made millions breaking into computer networks and stealing credit card numbers pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to forfeit more than $2.7m in restitution, as well as a condominium,... [14 Sep 2009]
Apple's Mac OS 'lagging behind Vista on security'
News Contrary to popular Mac fanboy belief, Macintosh is not more secure from a software standpoint than modern Windows; it's merely safer to use because malware writers prefer to target the platform with the biggest install base, according... [27 Aug 2009]
Extradition for Nasa hacker rules high court
News However, Lord Justice Stanley Burnton and Mr Justice Wilkie dismissed both claims on Friday. I have today sent a letter to President Barack Obama signed by 40 members of a cross parliamentary group of MPs asking him to... [31 Jul 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). Moss's background as a computer... [08 Jun 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News Rowland said he plans to help guide Mooney away from pranks and toward a promising career as a white hat hacker. The teenager who takes credit for the worms that hit Twitter earlier this week has been hired by a web... [20 Apr 2009]
Nasa hacker wins judicial review
News Lord Justice Maurice Kay made the ruling at the High Court in London on Friday. McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Friday that she was "very pleased" about the... [23 Jan 2009]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News Security vendor Trend Micro told ZDNet.co.uk that it has also seen hacker recruitment in universities, including in China. Soca said that, while it was "not willing to go into specific detail about which techniques"... [23 Jun 2008]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News But if a hacker was using that piece of spyware to sniff passwords and gain access to the corporate network, the indirect or secondary damages could be enormous. The problem has occurred in the Russian segment and a Nasa... [15 Jun 2007]
Microsoft points to early Vista flaw
News Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoft's Security Response Center, revealed last Friday that Vista is vulnerable to a flaw that allows a malicious hacker to escalate user privileges within several... [28 Dec 2006]
Microsoft grapples with mystery DRM cracker
News Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code. [27 Sep 2006]
Beware 'suicidal' malware, says CyberTrust
News It is pleasing to find an inexperienced hacker that has not used these things and has made it easy to analyse," he said. Speaking at the IT Security in Government Conference in Canberra, Australia on... [28 Jul 2006]
US ill-prepared for "cyber Katrina"
News Without proper planning, myriad industries - from healthcare to transportation to financial services - could face devastation if a natural disaster, terrorist or hacker succeeds in disrupting net access, they charged. [26 Jun 2006]
Crack-a-Mac contest ends abruptly
News A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators. In the earlier challenge, an anonymous hacker claimed he... [09 Mar 2006]
Second hack-my-Mac compo goes ballistic
News In the previous challenge, an anonymous hacker claimed he was able to compromise OS X within 30 minutes using an undisclosed vulnerability. Originally, the online event was scheduled to end on Friday but... [08 Mar 2006]
Tsunami 'hacker' gets IT security day job
News Martin O'Neal, director at Corsaire, confirmed on Friday that Cuthbert had actually joined the company before his trial. When Daniel Cuthbert was convicted last month of gaining unauthorised access to a Tsunami... [11 Nov 2005]
