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Microsoft has been left scratching their collective heads after their popular MSN Korea site went offline after it was discovered that the site had been hacked and was being used to steal user passwords. The site was down for 10 hours, and was confirmed by Microsoft - the company acted quickly on the reported security breach and has launched an investigation. A program similar to the exploit code was found on some Chinese websites - Microsoft believes that the exploit was due to the operators of the server neglecting to install necessary security updates. The MSN Korea server is run...

The website of the Catholic League was hacked over the weekend by hatefuly islamists.

The website of a Catholic civil rights group was hacked over the weekend, apparently by Islamic extremists. William Donohue, president of the New York City-based Catholic League, said the breach began yesterday, one day after his comments about the controversial new Hollywood film on the Crusades, "The Kingdom of Heaven," were published in the New York Post. The unknown hackers replaced the home page with one of their own, featuring a photo of a Palestinian holding a rock in each hand, facing down Israeli soldiers. It included epithets against President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, called for freedom...

CHICAGO, April 6 (UPI) -- A hacker types some computer code into an Internet search engine, such as Google or Yahoo! and finds a number of Excel spreadsheets containing private financial data, including the Social Security numbers, for hundreds of individuals. The national media have been reporting about online services, such as secret-info.com and Infosearch.com, which charge a fee to access someone's personal financial data, but leading Web browsers already allow users to do it for free -- if they know how to look, experts told UPI's The Web."You can use Excel or Lotus Notes -- and ask for forms...

As you're clicking away at your keyboard, you may be turning your telephone modem over to Internet thieves who make international calls and a profit at your expense. That's modem hijacking. New York lawmakers on Monday announced what apparently is a first of its kind measure in the nation to target the practice, which is estimated to run up millions of dollars in illicit phone calls for Americans whose service is stolen through dial-up connections from personal computers. "They are very creative in doing what they do," said Sen. James Wright, of northern New York's Jefferson County. He said the...

Known as the world’s most celebrated hacker, Kevin Mitnick, will share real stories behind the exploits of other hackers, intruders and deceivers.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hacker attacks on Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh OS X operating system, thought by many who use the Mac to be virtually immune to attack, are on the rise, according to a report from anti-virus software vendor Symantec Corp.

Hackers target pro-Terri website 'We have hit a major nerve in uncovering vast corruption' Posted: March 17, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Sarah Foster © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The battle over Terri Schindler-Schiavo's life currently raging in the Florida courts, the state Legislature and Congress moved into cyberspace Tuesday when hackers shut down a popular newssite noted for its probing coverage of the ongoing euthanasia case, keeping it inaccessible for over 30 hours. The Empire Journal, an Internet publication dedicated to exposing government fraud, corruption and abuse of power in New York state, expanded its focus about three months ago to include...

Freerepublic's Canadian cousin, Freedominion has been under hack seige for two days now. Noxious emails to all members yesterday were followed up today first by all comments being reworded as a profane reference to Republicans, and now by the following oddball words strewn throughout all posts: 'Limecat', H4X, KHAAAAAAAAN, ROAR and AKJREJOIFJKJEWOIUOIWE

Free Dominion has been hackedassistance requested Free Republic's Canadian chapter has been hacked by a group of commie weenies calling themselves the Internet Liberation Front. Isn't that a sweet, inspiring name? So original too, I'll bet no one in the sixties were clever enough to call themselves a liberation front. They have replaced our site URL with a bunch of commie nonsense that can be viewed here. If anyone has the ability to give them a taste of their own medicine, payback will be a female dog. Of course we would never condone such an action, we would prefer to...

e-mail sent says this as subject:: YOU WILL DIE SHORTLY!

Julia Pearlman, Brand Republic 13:40 31-01-2005 LONDON - An exclusive Channel 4 webchat hosted by Michael Moore, the director, writer and producer of 'Fahrenheit 9/11', was almost sabotaged in a planned attack by an American right-wing organisation trying to prevent Moore speaking to fans about his film. The webchat, the only one Moore has agreed to do in the last year, was launched to celebrate the UK TV premiere of the documentary film, a controversial expose of the Bush administration, on Channel 4 but was held up for an hour while IT technicians battled to get the chat back online....

Hey genealogy lovers: The far left foreign loonies with a bad translator have hacked a non-political site, CYNDISLIST.COM...a genealogy site. What is this world coming to when a site for genealogy lovers needs to be defaced?

If money is the root of all evil, then hackers are evil incarnate. According to a security intelligence firm, more than half the cyber-attacks conducted in 2004 were carried out by criminals interested in only one thing: money. iDefense, a Reston, Va.-based supplier of security intelligence to both corporations and government agencies, delved into its private database of more than 100,000 malicious code attacks to publish analytical findings publicly for the first time, said Ken Dunham, the company's director of research. Using that database, iDefense tallied a record 27,260 attacks in 2004. Over 15,000 of those, or some 55 percent,...

New worms spreading through MSN Messenger -- and its bundled-with-Windows Windows Messenger version -- via links to a malicious site are infecting users and leaving their PCs open to hacker hijack, security vendors reported Monday. The new worms, tagged as Kelvir.a and Kelvir.b, appeared over the weekend and on Monday, respectively, anti-virus vendors said. Both use the same mechanism to attract users and infect Windows-based PCs: they include a link in the instant message. That link, in turn, downloads a malicious file -- the actual worm, a variant of the long-running Spybot -- which opens a backdoor to the compromised...

A major wave of Bagle-like Trojan horses hit users worldwide Tuesday with numerous variations that aim to overwhelm anti-virus defenses by morphing faster than research labs can release new signatures. The attack, which began about midnight EST, was launched in a large-scale spamming campaign, said virus researchers, and although the new threat doesn't spread on its own -- these are Trojans with Bagle characteristics, not true worms -- many security vendors have bumped up warnings to get out the word. It's unclear how many variations are at loose. Some vendors, such as Symantec, had reported only two as of mid-morning...

ATC Announces Return to InternetATC Press Release - 02/25/05The ATC is now back after having been down since January 11, 2005, when terrorists struck their hosting companies Super Verticals, Yahoo and the ATC websites. "After the 1-11 Attacks the ATC Leadership decided not to return until high security could be assured and today we have that security." stated ATC President Stalfos. The ATC is now up at http://www.atcoalition.netOn January 13, 2005, ATC Vice President Benyamin B stated, "We shall return." "And today, we have indeed returned," stated Vice President Benyamin B earlier today. "On behalf of the Leadership of The...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate committee will hold hearings on identity theft and information brokers following the revelation that a databank with information on millions of people was accessed by criminals, the committee chairman said Thursday. Democrats, including Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California and Charles Schumer of New York, have been calling for a Judiciary Committee inquiry into whether more regulation of companies such as ChoicePoint Inc. that buy and sell personal data is needed. "I got a letter from Senator Leahy yesterday on identity theft issue and I immediately said we can hold a hearing,"...

A Cheektowaga teenager, a whiz kid on the computer, has been arrested in Los Angeles and accused of bombarding Internet users with more than a million spam e-mails. Not only is the 18-year-old accused of computer hacking and violating federal spam laws, but he allegedly threatened to wreak more havoc on a California Internet company if it didn't give him exclusive marketing rights to its customers, federal authorities said. Anthony Greco, a former Erie Community College student, is accused of creating thousands of accounts on MySpace.com, an online meeting place, and using them to send about 1.5 million unsolicited commercial...

Bropia worm spreads on the back of MSN Messenger 5:04PM A new virus is using the MSN Messenger system to spread. Known as Bropia.A, the worm waits on an infected system until the Messenger window is opened and then sends a copy of itself to contacts, using filenames adaware.exe, VB6.EXE, lexplore.exe and Win32.exe. If a contact accepts the file and runs it, it checks to see if any of the previously mentioned files are present, and if not, places a file called oms.exe on the computer and runs it. This is a variant of Rbot, which installs a backdoor on...