Tag: hackers
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Kevin Mitnick: Phone Phreak, Social Engineer
Kevin Mitnick gained notoriety following his arrest in early 1995 after a nationwide pursuit. People are familiar with Mitnick as a computer hacker who gained unauthorized entry into networks at Sun Microsystems, Nokia, NEC, Fujitsu Siemens among others.
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2/3 Defcon: Killswitch, Bandwidth, Floodgates
Lieberman says US internet killswitch bill is different than Egypt’s internet killswitch // Vodafone volluded with Egyptian regime’s information warfare psyop // US recruiting young cyber warriors
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1/20 Defcon: Firms, Foes & IPO’s
Google’s Eric Schmidt passes CEO reins to Larry Page // Apple’s Jobs takes another medical leave, raising questions about firm’s future // Dancho Danchev, Bulgarian security researcher & cybercrime foe, goes missing
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Internet Routing Structure Most Vulnerable
The military can only defend its own networks not the private-sector critical networks we all depend on for gas, water, electricity and banking, making such military efforts a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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Cyberwar on Korean Peninsula
Is warfare headed online? South Koreans hacked into North Korea’s official Twitter account recently and posted messages, defaming leader Kim Jong-il and son Kim Jong-un.
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
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interview w/ red ice radio on wikileaks, assange & the pirate party
a huge thanks to red ice creations for having me on the show – please support their fantastic work by becoming a subscriber! interview w/ red ice radio: download/subscribearchive “James Evan Pilato, based in Portland, Oregon is the Editor of Media Monarchy, Food World Order & CyberSpaceWar. In the first hour of this program, James…
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Anon of ‘Operation Payback’ Speaks Out
The anonymous hacker shows, at least, some good taste with the comment, “we don’t care much about Sarah Palin”. The price of this hacktivism will unfortunately be a restricted internet!
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Wikileaks Being Used to Justify ‘Internet Patriot Act’
Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resembles an establishment creation. The article correctly pointed out that the WikiLeaks storyline was conforming nicely to the elite’s problem-reaction-solution method, with the solution of more tyranny for our safety.
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12/2 Defcon: Fingerprints, Arsenic & Oxygen
Feds warrantlessly tracking credit cards in real time // Google admits Street View trespassing, hit with crippling $1 fine // Most popular Yahoo search in 2010 was ‘BP oil spill’; First time for a news story
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Bank Computer Glitch Really A Hack?
Chris Groothoff, an IT professional, believes somebody hacked the National Australia Bank computer system, as reported at Canberra Times.
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gary mckinnon extradition on hold?
Gary McKinnon, a cyber-cult hero, who hacked into Pentagon computers years ago, is nearing the end of his appeals to prevent his extradition from the UK. The US military wants to make McKinnon an “anti-hacking poster boy” as Gary summarizes it. “Every one of us has, at one time or another, fantasized about staying up all…
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11/11 Defcon: Brain Drain & Smart Viruses
FCC probing Google wi-fi spy scandal // New cyber attack linked to fake Nobel Prize email // Smart viruses threaten global peace // Congresswoman says chance of cyber attack against electric grid is 100%
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11/4 Defcon: Cybercom, Holograms & Chatbot
Military’s CyberCom is fully operational // Groups fear huge health database // Hologram messaging coming of age // Prize-winning chatbot steers the conversation // ‘Internet of Things’ is on the way