This is a very complete list, probably the most complete one I’ve seen and it includes pictures – pictures of people who rarely have their pictures taken or allow them out on the Internet.
The list is according to the proper original definition of a Hacker, as taken from the New Hacker’s Dictionary:
A person who enjoys [...]
Another teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated.
He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and he’s still classified as a juvenile offender being only 17 – so that works in his favour too.
A juvenile hacker with [...]
It seems that people are truly shocked when their identities get exposed, and the vast majority use the same single password for ALL of their online accounts. That’s just crazy!
A ‘kind-hearted’ hacker recently exposed a bunch of online accounts (with passwords) to gain himself more status in a hacker forum (l33t sk1llz dudebro!).
WHEN Australian web [...]
We reported on this case back in September 2007, the largest US data breach in history so far (45 million customer records!).
It seems like finally the people behind it have been busted, 11 people have been charged by US authorities.
The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of credit-card details in [...]
Looks like India has them moving into the hacking scene young, it’ll happen anywhere with decent network infrastructure and disparate levels of economy. Look at Eastern Europe and China as other examples, India though due to it’s outsourcing culture and plentiful legitimate jobs in the IT industry doesn’t seem to suffer so many problems with [...]
As far as I know this has been happening for some time, sometimes a patch comes out for a vulnerability that many people don’t know about (including the hackers) so they will see what problem the patch fixes (possibly through reverse engineering) then develop an exploit to leverage on the flaw.
It seems things are a [...]
It looks like someone is going after the bad guys in a new way, by hacking them back! It’s no news to us that many hacking tools and script kiddy trojan kits are badly programmed..a lot of them have back-doors and the client-side tools have easy exploits that enable you to take over the ‘hackers’ [...]
Apparently he stopped his naughty activities back in 2006, but still…a guy that is supposed to securing machines was installing malware and had a bot totaling about a quarter of a million zombies.
Most used for info gathering, Paypal accounts and installing Malware for comission, he claims to have made $19,000 in a week installing TopConverting [...]
This has been floating around for a while and you might have noticed a warning on some German based security sites that they’ve had to move their tools due to this new legislation known as 202(c) – a couple of examples are KisMAC and Phenoelit.
Basically the new law prohibits manufacturing, programming, installing, or spreading software [...]
The details are still a bit shaky, but this news has been making the rounds.
Apparently the the hack attack in June on the Pentagon may have been carried out by the Chinese Military (People’s Liberation Army).
One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the [...]
