cybercrime

Cyber attack in Republic of Kyrgyzstan

Submitted by Cyberwarz1 on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 19:41

 The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan experienced a cyber attack last month that took down its two largest Web sites. But that's small beer compared to what happened to the Pentagon and several other U.S. agencies in 2007, when cyber attackers successfully hacked into their computer systems, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates's email.

 

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Hackers Attack Turkish-Armenian Weekly 'Agos'

Submitted by emacs on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 09:54

The website of the Turkish-Armenian leading newspaper was hacked Friday. Hackers identifying as "AK Hacker" took over the website and put an image of the murderer "Ogün Samast". Who killed the director Hrant Dink of the newspaper in 2007.

On the hacked website the hackers stated "If you do not fix your reporting in the way we see fit, there will be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks."

Agos journalist Sarkis Gureh, in speaking with Turkish TV station NTV,
said that they are preparing to appeal to lawyers and to take court
action.

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Hacker "Iceman" gets 13 years

Submitted by emacs on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 19:54

A former security researched who had turned into a criminal hacker has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into financial institutions.

The hacker named Max Ray Butler (nickname Iceman) was sentenced Friday morning in Pittsburgh on charged of wire fraud and identity theft.

He gained notoriety for hacking into carder forum Web sites. He forced members of those websites to conduct their business trough his own site (cardersmarket.com).

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Early-adopter criminals embrace cloud computing

Submitted by emacs on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 20:49

Executives unsure of the viability of cloud computing need look no further than the criminal fraternity for a ringing endorsement of the technology, according to a security expert.
Cloud computing has been enthusiastically taken up by criminals for a range of activities, Rik Ferguson, senior security adviser at security firm Trend Micro, told delegates at a Westminster eForum on Wednesday.

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