March 2011
Student used spyware to steal passwords, change grades
(via)A former high school senior from Orange County, California, has pleaded guilty to charges that he installed spyware on school computers in order to boost his grades.
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.
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.
July 2009
DD-WRT firmware vuln gives you root
(via)A hacker has discovered a critical vulnerability in open-source firmware available for wireless routers made my Linksys and other manufacturers that allows attackers to remotely penetrate the device and take full control of it.
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