October 2010
Russian Hacker Bust: Is the FBI Chasing Mules?
(via)The FBI wanted poster looks like a yearbook page from a Russian provincial college. Seventeen men and women from Eastern Europe, mostly between the ages of 19 and 22, with bad skin, nerdy haircuts and no resemblance to your stereotypical bank robbers.
August 2010
Hacker tries canceling Guns N’ Roses tour
(via)If you believed Axl Rose’s Twitter account, the Guns N’ Roses frontman had unilaterally canceled the band’s upcoming European tour. The message posted on Sunday evening stated: “All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.”
July 2010
Hacker arrested for spying on schoolgirls via their own webcams
(via)A man has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them, provoking warnings that others will be doing the same thing.
May 2010
DNSSEC may cause an Internet fail on May 5
(via)Network managers are being urged to run a series of checks on their routers and firewalls to ensure their users will still be able to connect to internet sites in the wake of a major change to the internet’s domain name system next week.
April 2010
Hacker sells Facebook passwords
(via)A computer hacker in Russia has advertised for sale what appear to be passwords and login details from the social networking site Facebook.
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