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15 January, 2008

Cyber-espionage moves into B2B (InfoWorld)

The practice of cyber-espionage is rapidly moving beyond the government sector and finding its way into the world of international business, according to experts with SANS Institute, one of the world’s top IT security training organizations. While the United States and Chinese governments, most notably, have accused each other in current years of carrying out surreptitious hacking …

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McCrory: Misspelling was mistake, not hacking (The News & Observer)

Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory states his Web site definitely was not hacked when it sent an e-mail with a logo pitching him for "governer."

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Wozniak Backs Captain Crunch in Net Video Startup (Wired News)

Woz joins the board of en2go, throwing his support to an world wide web startup led in part by legendary phone phreak John Draper, his old hacking pal.

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Misspelling in logo was hacker’s work, campaign says (The News & Observer)

Under the Dome just talked to McCrory campaign manager Victoria Smith, who said a campaign spokeswoman was wrong when she stated that a misspelling of "governor" in a news release this day was the campaign's mistake. Smith blames a hacker.

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Misspelling in logo was hacker’s work, campaign says (The News & Observer)

Under the Dome just talked to McCrory campaign manager Victoria Smith, who said a campaign spokeswoman was wrong when she stated that a misspelling of “governor” in a news release today was the campaign’s mistake. Smith blames a hacker.

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Unpatched PCs open to latest web hack (TechWorld)

Vulnerabilities to go. A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of Web servers, including one owned by a major on the web advertising company, Finjan Software has said.

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Advanced web hack targets 100,000 sites (PC Advisor)

Web servers targeted by cybercrime group A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of web servers, including one owned by a major on the web advertising company, the chief technology officer of Finjan Software stated on Monday.

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Teacher is charged as a stalker and a hacker (The Star-Ledger)

A Warren County instructor has been charged with stalking two male students and hacking into the on the web account of one of them, sending an instant message to the student’s girlfriend about “breaking up,” authorities said yesterday.

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Big Book Of Windows Hacks reviewed at TechBookReport

The Massive Book of Windows Hacks isn’t like any of the other Hacks series published by O’Reilly. For starters it’s a whole lot larger , and it’s has one author, whereas most of the other books are communal affairs …

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Convicted Hacker Charged With Extortion After Attack on Model’s MySpace Account (Wired News)

It’s beauty versus geek when a man convicted of hacking into LexisNexis last year allegedly hijacks the MySpace account of an 18-year-old Los Angeles woman with a popular streaming video show. When the hacker allegedly demands nude photos and phone, he gets returned to the pokey instead.

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Convicted Hacker Charged with Extortion After MySpace Attack – Wired News


Convicted Hacker Charged with Extortion After MySpace Attack
Wired News - Jan 14, 2008
Weinberg was one of a gang of hackers who penetrated Paris Hilton's cell phone account in 2005, the Washington Post reported last year.

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Interview with MediaDefender Hacker

Categories: BitTorrent , Hacks and Cracks Portfolio has published a story about the MediaDefender hack earlier this year that includes an interview with a hacker who claims to be the one who first infiltrated …

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