Views: 19,563 [ad] If any of you follow the mailings lists or the ‘scene’ as it’s known, you’d be familiar with PHC, Phrack, Gobbles, ~el8, Silvio, gayh1tler and the whole Whitehat Holocaust AKA pr0j3kt m4yh3m. (Back when it went public). The war against whitehats has started up again more vehemently recently with zine known as […]
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Disgruntled IT Worker Gets Heavy Prison Sentence
Views: 5,059 [ad] 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, […]
Gentoo Pulls the Plug after Getting Pwned
Views: 21,828 [ad] Gentoo Pulls the Plug after Getting Pwned Gentoo pulled quite a few of it’s servers recently following the discovery of a fairly severe flaw in it’s systems. Just to show that Linux systems aren’t invulnerable and immune to all security issues. Ubuntu suffered quite heavily recently too, so don’t assume just because […]
Microsoft UK Defaced by Saudi Hackers
Views: 7,912 [ad] A while back Microsoft UK got hacked by some Saudi Hackers, Microsoft is always one of the top targets for renegades and ‘cyber-terrorists’ as the high profile nature of the company can give some publicity to their causes. This was less than a month after Technet got owned. I don’t think they […]
A Politically Tight Situation? Blame a HACKER!
Views: 6,615 [ad] It has happened quite a few times lately, politically tight situations, mistakes, data or information leaks and whoops damn…er…let’s blame it on hackers! Case 1: California Highway Patrol officials have opened a criminal investigation into “multiple” breaches and illegal downloads by outside hackers into the computers of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office, after […]