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YAHOO! users being targeted by HACKER. An evil hacker (probably some spammer pissed about having his spam blocked by Yahoo! SpamGuardTM) has developed a new technology which completely fools SpamGuardTM.  Embedded in the messages is a powerful hacker exploit which damages the operating system of the unsuspecting Yahoo! user if they follow any of the links or click on the "unsubscribe me" opt-out link which is required by Minnesota and California laws governing UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email). The hacker has been using it to harass millions of Yahoo! users for months and thereby exacting his terrible revenge on the Yahoo!...

The research and activism arm of BlackBox Voting.com   CONTENTSIntroductionPart 1 - Can the votes be changed?Part 2 - Can the password be bypassed?Part 3 ? Can the audit log be altered? ************* Introduction According to election industry officials, electronic voting systems are absolutely secure, because they are protected by passwords and tamperproof audit logs. But the passwords can easily be bypassed, and in fact the audit logs can be altered. Worse, the votes can be changed without anyone knowing, even the County Election Supervisor who runs the election system. The computer programs that tell electronic voting machines how...

®An American Cyber-Column Cough! Rich GalenFriday, August 22, 2003 This is true: An AP headline yesterday read: "Gov. Davis Announce $53 Million In Environmental Grants" The lead read: "Gov. Gray Davis was joined by Sen. Barbara Boxer on Wednesday to announce the awarding of $53 million in grants to protect California's environment." During the 2000 election a report was released indicating that Houston, Texas had won the annual competition for the most unhealthful air of any city in America. Our friends on the Left fairly fell on the ground and twitched with emotion as they pointed out the Governor...

GNU Servers Hacked, Linux Software May Be Compromised ByTechweb News In mid-March, someone hacked the primary file servers hosted by the GNU Project, the group which supports the development of many of the components in the Linux operating system, the group acknowledged Wednesday. It warned that the attacker may have inserted malicious code into the free software available for download, including Linux, and posted a set of hashes that users can check against to determine if what they retrieved is clean. The CERT Coordination Center noted in an advisory posted Wednesday that "because this system serves as a centralized...

<p>Former Burger King cook Joshua Arbuckle has been charged with aggravated assault for supposedly spitting on the hamburger he prepared for a Pennsylvania state trooper.</p> <p>Arbuckle, 18, was tied to the crime after a four-month police investigation that included DNA analysis, Clarion County District Attorney Mark Aaron said yesterday.</p>

The mysterious trojan horse that's been making security experts scratch their heads now has a name as more details of the oddball malware were made available. The trojan horse that has been causing confusion and concern among security researchers for over a month now has been dubbed 'Stumbler' by experts at Internet Security Systems (ISS). As reported earlier, Stumbler embeds itself in Unix systems and seems to be part of a concerted effort to map Internet-connected networks using port scanning techniques. A copy of the trojan was finally captured Wednesday, and investigation of its code began Thursday. After additional analysis,...

I tried to get e-Mail from triad.rr.com and I got a huge SECURITY ALERT screen, followed by a bunch of porn site ads. I think they are being hacked. Has anyone else had this problem?

Tonight, Bill has continued his jihad against Georgia Republican Governor Sonny Perdue. O'Reilly, who recently made what many considered an anti-black remark, has launched a full frontal assault on Perdue. Inexplicably, Bill O blames the GOP Gov for an all-white private prom that recently occured in Baldwin County Georgia. Of course, if the Governor could prevent the white kids from having a private prom, we would be living in a totalitarian state. Bill is clearly seeking to destroy Perdue to deflect from his racially insensitive faux pas. Perdue's Black Female Press Secretary was on The Factor tonight and Bill was...

By PETER SVENSSON The Associated Press Tuesday, March 25, 2003; 4:52 PM Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said. The newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday and posted images of the corpses of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack. Ayman Arrashid, Internet system administrator at the Horizons Media and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began Tuesday morning local time. Nabil Hegazi, assistant to the managing editor of...

Several tabloids have been calling celebrities who have been outspoken against the war “traitors” or “friends of Saddam.” As I have been grouped into this category, I feel that I need to say something in response to these outrageous accusations. Afterall, these celebrities are American citizens first, and we are thankful to live in this great country that allows us the right to express our opinions. I, for one, am a patriotic American who loves this country. I love that we live in a democracy where we have freedom of speech, where every person enjoys the right and bears the...

Monster Squid Grips Racing Yacht? AFP Jan. 16 — A French yacht taking part in the Jules Verne round-the-world sailing trophy was gripped by a giant squid for about an hour in the mid-Atlantic, its skipper announced by radio-link. Veteran yachtsman Oliver de Kersauson, at the helm of the trimaran Geronimo, said the three-hulled boat was hit by strange vibrations on Sunday, so he sent a crew member below deck to try to identify what was wrong. "Suddenly he saw something moving," de Kersauson said. "It was tentacles. "The squid was pulling really hard, so we put the boat...

<p>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Florida attorney Jack Thompson is not what you'd call a supporter of the video game industry. Over the past couple of years, his name has become synonymous with legal threats to publishers and developers he alleges create games that lead to real-world violence.</p>

Toogood Reports [Monday, December 23, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Those evil, white males are at it again. In the past two months, Neo-Nazis have shot up and started explosions in Los Angeles not once, but twice. The Russian mob has also laid the City of Angels to waste. A priest was caught abusing an altar boy in Boston. A sniper terrorized the Miami area. In Philly, a white male was caught kidnapping girls, and turning them into sex slaves. In New York, innocent young black men were up for the death penalty, having been racially profiled in a murder...

<p>Today, Sun and CERT announced that many of Sun's Cobalt RaQ 4 Linux servers can be completely taken over by a local user or via the Internet. Ironically, the vulnerability is only present if the vendor's optional "Security Hardening Package" is installed. The package is quite popular and is installed on a large percentage of these servers.</p>

Sun server appliance open to attack: CERT By Patrick Gray, ZDNet Australia 12 December 2002 Users of Sun’s RaQ 4 Server appliance have been warned in the latest CERT advisory of a serious vulnerability affecting the units. "A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Sun Cobalt RaQ 4 Server Appliances… may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges," the CERT advisory said. Ironically the vulnerability only affects Raq 4 units with Sun’s Security Hardening Patch (SHP) installed on them. Perhaps of most concern is the fact that a technique for exploiting this vulnerability has already been...

Hey, I was reading an article on al-Qaeda in Time (itself a reasonably interesting read), and I noticed something kind of spooky: the letters "CIA" are capitalized throughout the article!!! Totally freaked me out, makes me wonder if al-Qaedas are hacking articles and sending messages through them! Check it out yourself: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,366218,00.html?cnn=yes

Hackers send Sendmail a message Online vandals hacked into the primary download server for Sendmail.org and replaced key software with a Trojan horse, a Sendmail development team member said Wednesday. The apparent attack on Sendmail didn't leave a back door in the popular open-source e-mail software package, as previously believed, but compromised the download software on the Sendmail consortium's primary server so that every tenth request for source code would receive a modified copy in reply. "The exploited code that we see is not in our (development) tree at all," said Eric Allman, chief technology officer of Sendmail Inc., which...

The firewall has blocked Internet access to your computer (HTTP) from 67.117.37.36 (TCP Port 4803) [TCP Flags: S]. Time: 9/23/2002 4:43:46 PM ------------------ The firewall has blocked Internet access to your computer (TCP Port 1433) from 66.46.163.70 (TCP Port 4963) [TCP Flags: S]. Time: 9/23/2002 5:41:08 PM I've had this before but never twice in one day. Is this some sort of assault on my computer?

Princeton 'hacks' Yale admissions site By John Leyden Posted: 07/26/2002 at 06:38 EST Yale is threatening to sue Princeton after officials at the rival Ivy League college allegedly hacked into Yale's Web site to gain unauthorised access to its admission decisions. According to Yale Daily News, Princeton staff gained unauthorised access to decisions on at least 11 prospective Yale undergraduates in early April through its deeply insecure online admission notification system. Using birth dates and social security numbers obtained from Princeton applications, officials were able to find out whether applicants had been successful in gained access to Yale, its alleged....

I was out looking for a nearby fireworks display to attend this evening and the first thing that came up in the search was the Great American 4th of July Fireworks in State College, PA. I thought great til I clicked the link and got Usama.If I actually knew how to post a link correctly I would do it.. try thishttp://4thjuly.com/