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A controversial American website that pokes fun at the French and Germans has been brought down by hackers. Francestinks.com and Germanystinks.com has been deluged with emails from German cyber saboteurs, the site says. Shortly before Friday's cyber attack, the website's creator received a warning that he would be shown "what happens when you post a nationalist site like this on the Internet", Fox News reported. "Apparently (the hacker) was very sophisticated," creator 'Yankee Doodle' said. "People at the server outfit said they had never seen one that sophisticated before." The website has become cult viewing across America after France and...

AUSTIN -- Computer hackers have obtained the names and Social Security numbers of about 59,000 current and former students, faculty members and staff at the University of Texas at Austin in one of the largest cases of potential identity theft ever reported. Authorities do not know whether the information has been put to illegal uses such as obtaining credit cards or withdrawing money from financial accounts. Law enforcement officials were expected to obtain and execute search warrants late today in Austin and Houston at homes where computers are thought to have been used in the cyberspace break-in. UT officials suspect...

My Iraqi Friends, Supporters and "Enemies". Saddam has dismantled 10 of his 200 missiles and has shown the weapons inspectors a field of buried rusty missiles. This is good news. But can the "Butcher of Baghdad" really be trusted to keep the peace? Must the US people intervene to dismantle his regime? Can the Iraqi people install their own government that will work in a peaceful manner for the good of their own people? The communist regime fell because of their disregard for the welfare of their own people - must Saddam fall also for the same reason? I wish...

I received a call from my credit union yesterday to inform me that a company I do business with (catalog company???) notified them that their data base was hacked into and my name came up as one whose credit card info was compromised. I was given the phone number of the security department of MasterCard, who was very helpful in reviewing my account to make sure that there were no unknown charges to my card yet. Then they immediately closed the account and promised new cards in 7-10 days. Really no hassle other than having to get another credit card....

<p>Using a combination of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the personal information of AOL's 35 million users.</p> <p>The most recent exploit, launched last week, gave a hacker full access to Merlin, AOL's latest customer database application. As a security measure, Merlin runs only on AOL's internal network, but savvy hackers have found a way to break in.</p>

WASHINGTON, Feb 12, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center warned that growing tensions between the United States and Iraq could lead to an increase in global computer hacking activities on both sides. "Regardless of the motivation, the NIPC reiterates such activity is illegal and punishable as a felony," the agency warned Wednesday on its Web site. "The U.S. government does not condone so-called 'patriot hacking' on its behalf. "Further, even 'patriotic hackers' can be fooled into launching attacks against their own interests by exploiting malicious code that purports to attack the other side...

CORPORATE security is an illusion. So is personal financial privacy. I should know; I spent five years of my life in federal prison for proving it. A recent survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI found that 90 percent of U.S. companies responding had detected security breaches during the preceding year. Many companies believe that they can protect their information and networks from the bad guys by acquiring security technologies such as fire-walls, anti-virus software and biometric authentication systems. But while it's essential to use technology to prevent and detect hackers, it is naive to rely on technology...

<p>Some Bank of America ATMs were still out Monday, primarily in the Southeast, a bank spokesman said. And analysts blamed a dip in South Korea's stock market on the worm taking down most Internet connections in the country over the weekend.</p>

Nation Suffers from Unprecedented Nationwide Internet Shutdown    Seoul, Jan. 25 (Yonhap) -- Internet services were shut down nationwide for hours Saturday afternoon in an apparent cyber terror committed by hackers.    It is the first time that the country's wired and mobile Internet services were shut down nationwide, although some Internet service firms have suffered from malfunctions in separate cases, according to industry sources.

<p>A notorious computer hacker has threatened to launch the most destructive computer virus the Internet has seen if the United States invades Iraq.</p> <p>Vladimor "Melhacker" Chamlkovic, 23, a Malaysia-based computer-geek who named a previous virus after Osama bin Laden, told The Post he has developed a new super virus.</p>

<p>You see, Reid already has a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Anzar High School in San Juan Bautista, California. So to leave his mark, he decided to lower his grades to a 1.9 GPA -- a meager D+.</p> <p>"I couldn't do what most people would want to do when they hack into the school's computer," Reid said. "So I thought it would be funny to do the opposite."</p>

Less than 24 hours after plans were unveiled to build the Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock, Ark., the project had come under attack by defenders of the ex-president who attempted to disrupt its fundraising operation. Staff at the CCL report the cyber-Clintonistas have emailed at least 13 separate computer viruses to their Web site in a blitzkrieg effort to shut it down. "If you understand the Clintons, you just know they will do virtually anything to stop this Counter Library," CCL co-founder, former Congressman John LeBoutillier told NewsMax, before vowing not to let the cyber-attack disrupt operations. In anticipation...

House considers jailing hackers for life By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 13, 2002, 5:57 PM PT WASHINGTON--A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison.

Hussein`s Email Is Hacked NOVEMBER 01, 2002 23:04 by Ki-Tae Kwon (kkt@donga.com) The Iraqi Government opens the direct email address (press@uruklink.net) to the President Sadam Hussein. The reporters of the ‘Wired Dot Com’ of America hacked that email box. It contained shocking contents. Since Hussein`s email is managed by the Iraqi national Internet service provider, the Western businessmen believed that their secrets were secured and proposed many different things that are contrary to their national interests and justice. One of the shocking mails was a proposal by a businessman who called himself as a bio-chemical expert to sell bio-chemical weapons...

In 20 minutes John Gibson's "The Big Show" will be on. He's going to interview a guy who says he hacked into Saddam's e-mail account. Sounds a little sketchy to me, the guy said he did it by guessing passwords!

Anti-war movement being ‘hijacked’? Terrorism, disctatorship supporters steering national movement, activists warn. By Sherrie Gossett Copyright Sherrie Gossett --------------------------------------------------------- While publicly promoting non-violent protest and humanitarian causes, some key leaders and prominent groups who organized and participated in the anti-war demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol and San Francisco, are staunch supporters of terrorist groups and dictatorial regimes worldwide. Critics now charge that the 'new' anti-war movement is being 'hijacked' by this dominant network whose organizational power is increasing and whose political agenda is anathema to most Americans. Saturday's rally, which focused on opposition to a U.S.-led war against Iraq and...

The Al-Qaeda terror network has begun using hackers who break into websites to create secret pages that send messages to its followers, Internet specialists say. An example of this practice came earlier this month when a message purportedly from Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden appeared on cenobite.Com, a website started by a fan of science fiction writer Clive Barker. Andrew Weisburd, an online activist who tracks terrorist groups, said he believes Al-Qaeda began using this technique to communicate after the rights expired to alneda.Com, a website often linked to Al-Qaeda. "Al Neda is continuing its practice of hijacking Web servers...

“IT workers are currently hurting for money in the free market because of the years of loose funding for Stanford-educated illusionists geeks making ridiculous promises that failed to deliver during the dot-com bust of the late 1990s. With those private funds dried up, those same illusionists have changed tactics, saying 'the government should do more for our nation’s cybersecurity' and looking to drink from the teat of big government; filled with what they consider an unending supply of taxpayer money from America’s citizens like you and I. During the 1940s, those taking advantage of government spending would be called nasty...

"The 13,800+ Linux servers infected by the Slapper worm have created a huge, intelligent P2P network that according to Symantec virus analysts can efficiently redirect network traffic, data and even router information from targeted networks back to the compromised Linux servers."

RIAA hacked – yet again Spoof press release advocates music sharing By INQUIRER staff: Saturday 31 August 2002, 15:25 THE RECORDING INDUSTRY Association of America has been hacked once more, this time with the introduction of a spoof press release on its site. The organisation, which is pursuing a relentless battle against music file sharing with the aid of some US politicians, has the spoof press release up on its Web site today, at this URL.The "press release" advocates that people should use Kazaa to share music, and has the following text above some file names "for download".RIAA to sue...