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Entries on this site with 'cracking'
- Busy times, crazy life.
It's been a really busy week or two so I haven't had time to write much. I realize that it's only common sense, but I still find it amusing that I have the least time to w
- Crackers leak climate research e-mail, possibly to manipulate public opinion.
The argument over whether or not the global climate is getting warmer or cooler due to the actions of humanity has been going fast and hard ever since someone claimed back
- Gary McKinnon to be extradited to the US.
Just a few days ago it was made official - eccentric systems cracker Gary McKinnon , known as the UFO Hacker by the news media has lost his final appeal and will be extrad
- What hath the fabulists wrought?
It's long been said that science fiction predicts, or at least inspires some of the things which we take for granted every day. While the exact origins of the genre could
- This isn't quite a William Gibson/Near Stephenson cyberpunk world, but you can see the lights of it from here.
There's a certain feeling a system admin gets when they find out that one of their boxen has been pwned . You can't really compare it to anything else but it seems to comb
- A week after the VPMP deadline.
A little more information on the recent compromise of the VPMP and subsequent ransom demand has hit the wires since Wikileaks.org broke the news almost two weeks ago . It
- Fjalar Ravia, requisat en pace.
I just returned home a few minutes ago from celebrating the greater feast of someone whom I have admired greatly for a number of years. Fjalar Ravia, better known to the h
- Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program compromised - 8 million records held for ransom.
Yesterday morning, word got out through the Internet Storm Center that the web server of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program was compromised by an unknown attacke
- WPA/TKIP partially broken?
Just when you thought it was safe to raise an antenna and go wireless again, along comes another attack to make you think twice. A pair of security researchers, Erik Tews
- Is a cold net.war going on between the US and China?
Every once in a while a news article about attempts to crack US military and government systems coming out of China or the Middle East hits the 'wires; rumors of groups of
- In the future, someone else might own your prosthetics.
..and I don't mean the finance company. I know this is late in coming, but real life has a better framerate sometimes. Anyway, a security research outfit called Secure Med
- Is No Such Agency now the Network Security Agency?
Earlier this month, George W. Bush authorized a classified government directive that authorizes the National Security Agency to monitor the data networks of other US gover
- Czech crackers facing trial for faked nuclear detonation.
Last June, a group of crackers and art hackers in what used to be Czechoslovakia hacked a webcam feed to make it look like someone had detonated a nuclear device by scalin
- Lake Forest, Washington 911 center compromised.
The SWAT team charged with the town of Lake Forest in Washington state was dispatched to the house of a local family after being informed that a heavily armed drug dealer
- Gary McKinnon's leave for appeal granted.
Gary McKinnon, the cracker famous for infiltrating NASA and United States military networks in search of information pertaining to UFOs was granted leave so that he could
- Defcon ups the stakes: Cracking for pinksies.
Every year at Defcon they assemble a huge computer network and populate it with machines of all kinds as part of a competition. The objective is simple: Crack as many of t
- Gary McKinnon loses another battle in the fight to prevent extradition.
One Gary McKinnon, the cracker known for compromising computer networks in the United States in his search for information pertaining to UFOs has lost a significant fight
- Targetted attacks.
It seems that The Bad Guys (for some value of Bad Guys) are now carefully choosing their targets, and are also carefully choosing personnel who work at those targets and a
- Unauthorized use of communications satellites for propaganda bombing.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a group of rebels active in the country of Sri Lanka who demand the formation of a separate state
- Gary, Gary, Gary, you got some 'splainin' to do...
Gary McKinnon, who cracked US government and military networks under the alias 'Solo' in search of information on unidentified flying objects and unusual power sources wil
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