Israeli super-hacker accused of masterminding $1.8m fraud

No, not a terrorist attack — just simple stupid hacks to redirect people to porn and other junk. Largely used for search engine optimization.The city of Dinuba, California and Inyocourt seem to have some problems. They’ve got...

The use of web archive The Wayback Machine did not constitute hacking in the case of a law firm which used the web archive to see pages which owners did not want it to see, a US court has ruled.The use of web archive The Wayback...

In a 4 day event spanning from the 22nd to the 25th of September, Terra Soft will host a 6 node PS3 cluster and hands-on workshop for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux, compute image deployment via Y-HPC, and use of Torque and...

More than 1,100 new students starting at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine got a shock last month when they found their personal accounts on the University computer system had already been accessed....

Driven by strong financial incentives and using widely available malicious code software packages, “affiliations” are being created that promote infections using a “hosted” model for the malicious code. In this scheme, the...

We’ve seen this before — tikis, wikis, etc. that have been hacked to serve porn.For example, look at these Google results here (warning: highly offensive content).One of the CastleCops volunteers is working on a hacked .edu site...

Hackers are concentrating on mobile devices as more people conduct their internet banking on the move, according to a research firm. TowerGroup says that mobile devices are hackers' next big target."We're currently in the lull...

Terra Soft Solutions is proud to host the first ever Cell processor "hack-a-thon" at Terra Soft's headquarters in Loveland, Colorado, January 20-26.Glen Otero, Ph.D., Chief Scientist at Terra Soft describes this week long event...

A man in Manchester has been convicted of using an MP3 player to hack cash machines. Maxwell Parsons, 41, spent £200,000 of other people's money after using the machine to read card details.Parsons plugged his MP3 player into the...

Silicon.Com reports that hackers, apparently from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting super-hacker, Kevin Mitnick's website on Sunday and replaced his front page with one of their own. As a result, four web addresses...

Secure Computing Corporation warned that organizations that have installed their BlackBerry server behind their gateway security devices could be subject to a hacking attack.This is likely to occur when security researcher Jesse...

Well, this is embarrassing — feb.gov has been hacked. By an Islamic hacker who even adds the nice touch of playing the call of a muezzin.

The Associated Press reports that a 25-year-old man has been charged with hacking into the University of Southern California's (USC's) computer system and accessing information about student applicants.The newswire says that Eric...

A 22-year-old bloke was arrested in Melbourne last week in connection with a series of alleged attacks on a number of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers during 2005.The man, which hails from the state of Victoria, has not been...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) says that a former IT system auditor for a US government agency now faces a five-year prison sentence on computer hacking charges, after monitoring his supervisor's e-mail and computer...