Views: 4,814 Prisoners Hack Prison! Sounds exciting right? This time it’s actually pretty entertaining with the prisoners managing to hack a prison network from INSIDE the prison using scavenged PC parts from a rehabilitation class. Some pretty resourceful guys managing to build 2 functional PCs from scrapped parts AND connect to the prison network AND […]
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UK Facebook Hacker Jailed For 8 Months
Views: 11,377 It’s a pretty harsh sentence if you ask me, especially since Facebook decided in July 2011 to start paying bug bounties. I have to say though, this guy must be a pretty talented hacker to break into the Facebook servers – they aren’t exactly low hanging fruit. I’d imagine they are some of […]
Webcam Hacker Jailed for 4 Years for Spying on Teenager
Views: 19,116 [ad] 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 […]
San Fransisco Mayor Regains Control of the Network
Views: 18,608 [ad] In the story we recently covered where Terry Childs had locked San Fransisco officials out of their own network, there is a new development. He’s handed over the passcode to the Mayor, Gavin Newsom. It seems he came to his senses and he also seems to have VERY little faith in the […]
San Fransisco Officials Locked Out of Their Own Network
Views: 6,323 [ad] Another disgruntled IT worked causing mayhem, remember the guy that destroyed all the medical records? He got a pretty hefty sentence, now we have another who has locked everyone out of the new ‘state of the art’ computer network in San Fransisco – he’s on a $5 million dollar bail so I’d […]