Saturday, March 10, 2012

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News9 new results for hacking
 
Feds: NYC hacker also involved with drug dealing
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — The American computer hacker who shocked other Internet saboteurs by becoming an FBI informant didn't just break the law on the Web: He also carried a gun and was involved in drug dealing. Court documents unsealed this week show that in ...
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'Anonymous' Hacker Sabu Won't Face Prosecution for Offenses Including Gun
BusinessWeek
By Patricia Hurtado and Bob Van Voris on March 09, 2012 Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker with the group Anonymous cooperating in a US probe, won't face prosecution on charges including attempted drug- dealing and illegal gun possesion, according to a ...
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Hacker being evicted from NYC public housing
San Francisco Chronicle
(03-09) 13:18 PST NEW YORK, (AP) -- A computer hacker who shocked other Internet saboteurs by becoming an FBI informant is being thrown out of his apartment. New York City's housing authority confirmed Friday that it has been going to court for two ...
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Hacker combined online attacks with petty crime
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A computer hacker-turned-FBI informant known as "Sabu" combined daring online attacks against governments and major companies with a life of petty crime and drugs, according to a copy of his plea agreement.
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Hacker Sabu Worked Nonstop As Government Informer
InformationWeek
Federal indictments unsealed Tuesday show what Monsegur helped achieve: charges against five other hackers, who prosecutors said served as the de facto leaders of hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec, and before that, Internet Feds.
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At hacking contest, Google Chrome falls to third zero-day attack
Ars Technica
A teenage hacker who identified himself only as PinkiePie said he spent the past week and half working on the attack. It combined three previously unknown vulnerabilities to gain full system access to a Dell Inspiron laptop that ran a fully patched ...
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'Anonymous' Hacker Won't Face Prosecution for Gun, Marijuana
San Francisco Chronicle
March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Hector Xavier Monsegur, the hacker cooperating with a government probe, won't face prosecution for several alleged offenses, including attempted drug-dealing and computer crimes dating to when he was a teenager, according to his ...
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"Great personal danger": Inside hacker Sabu's guilty plea hearing
Ars Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published March 9, 2012 2:05 PM The hacker known as "Sabu" inspired fear in corporations and loyalty from his LulzSec/Anonymous associates, but when he showed up in a Lower Manhattan federal courtroom on August 15, 2011, ...
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'Sabu' Hacker Engaged In Computer Attacks As Far Back As 1999 – Prosecutors
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Chad Bray A leading computer hacker who became an informant for the government last year allegedly carried out a variety online attacks from as early as 1999 and allegedly committed a variety of other crimes for which he will not be prosecuted ...
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Blogs4 new results for hacking
 
Hacking book: the difference between telling the truth and telling a ...
By Roy Greenslade
Roy Greenslade presents the fourth extract from the book The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial, this one by Richard Peppiatt.
Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk
xpostfactoid: Romney keeps hacking at Obamacare's shadow limb
By ASP
Romney keeps hacking at Obamacare's shadow limb. Jonathan Chait has helped me understand Romney's signature lie about Obamacare, repeated throughout the debates. The lie completes a false contrast: while Romneycare is a private, ...
xpostfactoid
Bangor auto parts company victim of phone hacking — Bangor ...
By Dawn Gagnon
BANGOR, Maine — A salesman at a Bangor auto parts business was taken aback when he arrived at work on the morning of Feb. 22 and saw all 11 of the company's phone lines lit up. First to arrive and the only one in the building, the ...
Bangor Daily News
Europe's 'youngest app designer' expelled from school for hacking ...
By admin
A "computer whizzkid", who was crowned Europe's youngest application designer, has been expelled for hacking into his school's computer system. Aaron Bond, 14, was expelled from King Edward VI College in Totnes, Devon for trying to ...
Office of Inadequate Security


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