Seems like the Feds have been busy in recent year, all kinds of hackers, phishers an dnow pirates are getting arrested and imprisoned for some serious jailtime.
The latest in this strung of busts is the music piracy ground RNS or Rabid Neurosis, very eminent in the scene in the late 90s/early 2000s.
With P2P and people [...]
Now this is pretty disgusting behaviour from a national telco provider, but well is it really surprising in Dubai? For me..no it’s not.
I’ve spent a reasonable amount of time in Dubai on various projects, and my first surprise was Flickr being blocked. Especially as Dubai is probably the most liberal place in the Middle East. [...]
The BBC has made an odd move recently by buying/seeding a botnet of 22,000 computers under the guise of investigative journalism.
They claim it’s not illegal as they caused no harm and only sent spam to e-mail accounts used by themselves. Technically I think it’s still breaking the law under the Computer Misuse Act but most [...]
It’s a sad case when someone loses their career over an incidnet which was outside of their control, not everyone can be expected to keep their computers free of spyware and malware.
It just doesn’t happen.
Unfortunately for Julie Amero, she got some porn pop-ups at the wrong time in a class full of students. If you [...]
Another one bites the dust, this time for spying on a teenage girl via webcam. 4 years is a reasonable sentence this time I think as the case borders on many offenses such as blackmail, indecent behaviour, infringement of privacy, unlawful access and probably a few more.
It was a pretty simple hack as it goes, [...]
For some of the long time readers, you might remember we’ve been covering the case of the UK Hacker Gary McKinnon for quite some time. The last post was about a year ago though in August 2007 when he Won Right to Lords Appeal Extradition Hearing.
The first post on the case was over 2 years [...]
Now this is an interesting privacy related case to think about over the weekend, Google has to reveal viewing details for Youtube to Viacom.
Anyone who has EVER watched a Youtube video, that’s pretty extreme. Luckily most people are using dynamic IP addresses, so it shouldn’t be too much of a concern.
Unless of course they decide [...]
It just goes to show, however smart you think you are…don’t bother trying to wreck someones data. In this case, even if the guy was pissed it was highly responsible as it involved medical records and could actually seriously effect someones life.
He was pretty careful but left a few clues behind, more than enough for [...]
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 [...]
If not the magic camera in the sky might think you are a terrorist and a squad of crack F16s might be dispatched to blow up your plane..
Don’t go to the toilet too often too, or walk around too much…or do anything really. Better just sit in your seat with a blank expression on your [...]
