He goes by the online monikers “cam0,” “Freak,” and “leetjones.” But you might know him as the guy who hacked Burger King’s Twitter account, to claim the fast-food chain was…
Koceilah Rekouche krekouche@pushstart.info The history of phishing traces back in important ways to the mid-1990s when hacking software facilitated the mass targeting of people in password stealing scams on America…
International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), Vol.5, No.4, July 2013 DOI : 10.5121/ijnsa.2013.5402 23 Marc A. Rader1 and Syed (Shawon) M. Rahman2, * 1CapellaUniversity, Minneapolis, MN, USA…
I couldn’t imagine a crazier way to get yourself some attention from the hacking crew you want to join than taking out one of the biggest “phenomenons” on Myspace then…
A person wanting to impress a hacker group broke into the popular MySpace profiles of several celebrities, including Justin Timberlake and model and MTV personality Tila Tequila, researchers said today.…
A 19-year-old hacker who published provocative photos of teen queen Miley Cyrus earlier this year was raided by the FBI Monday morning in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The hacker, Josh Holly, repeatedly…
A former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks was sentenced to four months in prison Monday for his role in a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out…
Secret-spilling site Cryptome was hacked over the weekend, possibly exposing the identities of whistleblowers and other confidential sources, according to a hacker who contacted Wired.com and claimed responsibility for the…
10/18/12 Update: 2006 posting at forum – where Russell Handorf still contributes using his “grey hat hacker” handle “satanklawz” – suggests he has been working for FBI three years earlier…
No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S.…
Christopher Allen Lewis, the hacker from a telephone hacking group called Kryogeniks, has pleaded guilty for taking Comcast’s web site offline in May of 2008. Lewis is facing a charge…
