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If you used a computer at a Kinko's in New York City last year, or the year before, there's a good chance that JuJu Jiang was watching. The 25-year-old Queens resident pleaded guilty in federal court in New York last week to two counts of computer fraud and one charge of unauthorized possession of access codes for a scheme in which he planted a copy of the commercial keyboard sniffing program Invisible KeyLogger Stealth on computers at thirteen Kinko's stores sprinkled around Manhattan. For nearly two years ending last December, Jiang's makeshift surveillance net raked in over 450 online banking...

More than a thousand unsuspecting Internet users around the world have recently had their computers hijacked by hackers, who computer security experts say are using them for pornographic Web sites. The hijacked computers, which are chosen by the hackers apparently because they have high-speed connections to the Internet, are secretly loaded with software that makes them send explicit Web pages advertising pornographic sites and offer to sign visitors up as customers. Unless the owner of the hijacked computer is technologically sophisticated, the activity is likely to go unnoticed. The program, which only briefly downloads the pornographic material to the usurped...

WASHINGTON - Parts of the Internet erupted Sunday in a battle among hackers, as factions disrupted a loosely coordinated "contest" among other groups trying to vandalize thousands of Web sites around the world. Unknown attackers for hours knocked offline an independent security Web site, zone-h.org, that was verifying reports of online vandalism and being used by hackers to tally points for the competition, which drew warnings last week by the U.S. government and private technology experts. Three such vigilante-style attacks forced the hacker organizer, who identified himself only as "Eleonora67," to extend the contest until 6 p.m. EDT Sunday. But...

WASHINGTON -- It's all a contest among Internet hackers, and the results could be devastating. Both government and private experts have warned that hackers had planned to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday during the loosely-coordinated contest. They've also urged Web administrators to be alert. Organizers had established a Web site for the event, which was shut down last Wednesday evening. Before it was removed, the site listed the rules for hackers who might be taking part. FBI spokesman Bill Murray says "The FBI is taking this very seriously...hacking is a crime and those who participate in this activity will...

COMPUTER hackers are expected to launch a global attack on the Internet today as part of an illegal contest aimed at causing widespread chaos. Cyber rebels around the world will each aim to attack and disable 6000 websites in six hours. Security has been tightened on United States Government and corporate websites. Computer experts noticed a global surge in surveillance scans this week - something that typically precedes computer break-ins. Contest organisers listed the rules of the hacking contest on defacers-challenge.com. The site opened on June 21 and was closed on Wednesday, but technology experts fear many of the world's...

Tallahassee - The War began silently this morning at around 2:00 AM EST. Complaints to Internet Service providers are up, and it's all because of a handful of people who have nothing better to do than attempt to destroy our normal way of life. The Computer Dudes in Tallahassee are in a bit of a tizzy this afternoon. While preparing for the launch of their new Web Communications Tool, they were caught off guard early this morning by what seems to be an cyber attack. "This is a serious attack, and these hackers are just practicing today. It's going to...

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COMPUTERS are rare and internet access is almost nonexistent for most people in North Korea, yet the isolated communist country is suspected of training computer hackers for cyberterrorism, US and South Korean officials say. Sitting in a glass-fronted building in Seoul, Cho Kyong-won, a young South Korean who looks more like a hip youngster with long hair than the serious computer scientist that he is, considers the prospect of Pyongyang's digital warriors and concludes there is no reason to think they would be incompetent just because their country is poor. "They could be good," says Cho, 25, an cybersecurity expert...

Al-Jazeera is Now on the Air...Maybe Not Since that moment - just a few weeks ago at the time of this writing - Al-Jazeera has faced quite a struggle. Its DNS was hijacked, so that visitors to the Web site were redirected to a Web page featuring an American flag and the words "Let Freedom Ring!" It was knocked offline due to a denial of service attack. Its inital hosting company, DataPipe, dropped the site, forcing it to move to Akamai. Finally, Akamai ended its hosting contract with Al-Jazeera, without offering a clear explanation. Since then, the news site is...

Use a honeypot, go to prison? By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Posted: 17/04/2003 at 14:47 GMT Using a honeypot to detect and monitor computer intruders might put you on the working end of federal wiretapping beef, or even get you sued by the next hacker that sticks his nose in the trap, a Justice Department attorney warned Wednesday. "There are some legal issues here, and they are not necessarily trivial, and they're not necessarily easy," said Richard Salgado, senior counsel for the Department of Justice's computer crime unit, speaking at the RSA Conference here Wednesday. An increasingly popular technique for...

U.S. soldiers' group denies Chirac website attack PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. servicemen's group on Friday denied it had played any role in the taking over of a website set up by French President Jacques Chirac, who infuriated Americans with his opposition to the war in Iraq. For a while on Friday, computer users trying to find Chirac's site by typing its address www.chiracaveclafrance.net were instead led to that of the United Service Organisations (USO), which declares: "Proudly Serving The Men & Women Who Serve Our Country!" The U.S. servicemen's group however emphatically denied it was responsible, and...

Bruised by Net attack, Al-Jazeera turns to mobiles LONDON, April 2 (Reuters) - Hacked off the Internet for showing controversial images from the Iraq war, the Arab news channel al-Jazeera said on Wednesday it was launching a new service to send its news to mobile phones. The Qatar-based satellite television channel will beam news alerts in both Arabic and English to mobile phones around the world, after its Arabic and English-language Web sites were brought down by hackers. Al-Jazeera, one of the most popular news networks in the Arab world, raised the ire of the United States and Britain last...

If you logged on to Al-Jazeera late last week, you were in for quite a surprise. An American group hacked the Arab world's most popular news channel website, diverting all log-ons to a picture of an American flag with the words "Let Freedom Ring" on the bottom. These hackers were able to impersonate Al- Jazeera employees in order to gain temporary control of the network's Arab and English web sites. After that, they redirected all users who logged onto the page to their own site. The group "Freedom Cyber Force Militia" has claimed responsibility for the hacking, which was corrected...

Hack attack! Taking down criminal media sites by lulu 1:33am Sat Mar 29 '03 (Modified on 10:05am Sat Mar 29 '03) The war-makers are routinely hacking anti-war sites. Activists can, and probably should, use the same tools to bring down the criminal corporate media websites. A basic principle long embedded at the core of western legal systems is the right to use force to protect oneself, family and community from harm. Bush has gone to war to "protect" America, that's how unquestionable the right of self-protection is. But Bush fabricated an enemy. He is running a protection racket, just...

A MUSLIM militant group is believed to have hacked into the Hereford Diocese web-site and left pictures of dead and wounded children. Four video stills, two showing fatally injured children, possibly taken from Middle East TV war coverage, appeared on the site on Monday afternoon. Anyone visiting the church web-site would have found themselves on the Muslim Allah Akbar page, which means `Allah is the greatest'. Diocese director of communications, Anni Holden, said she presumed a militant Muslim Arab organisation was behind the sabotage. "It was very dramatic. The page said Allah Akbar and there was also a line of...

Hackers cripple al-Jazeera sites The site was briefly hijacked by US hackers The websites of the Arabic television news channel Al Jazeera have come under electronic attack from hackers. Some visitors to the site were diverted to a pornography site, while others found a page with an American flag and the message "Let Freedom Ring". The Arabic and English-language sites of al-Jazeera have suffered internet disruptions since the television station showed pictures of dead and captive American soldiers in Iraq. The TV channel has described the electronic onslaught as a vicious attack on the freedom of the press. Flood of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hackers on Thursday replaced the English-language Web site for Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera with a U.S. flag and the message "Let Freedom Ring." The hackers, calling themselves the "Freedom Cyber Force Militia," briefly hijacked Internet traffic destined for Al-Jazeera's Web site and redirected it to a different Web page on computers operated by Networld Connections Inc., an Internet provider in Salt Lake City. The likely hacking technique, called "DNS poisoning," fools so-called domain name servers across the Internet and is relatively difficult to defend against. Internet records show the Web directories sending traffic to Al-Jazeera's site...

Al-Jazeera Web site faces continued hacker attacks Reuters, 03.27.03, 11:50 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hacker attacks continued to plague the Web site of Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera on Thursday, as cyber-vandals replaced the news site with a stars-and-stripes logo saying "Let Freedom Ring". Both the Arabic site, at (http://www.aljazeera.net), and the English-language version at (http://english.aljazeera.net) could not be accessed Thursday. Users who tried to log onto the site found a message that read, "Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia" beneath a logo containing the U.S. flag. "This broadcast was brought to you by: Freedom Cyber Force Militia,"...

<p>The disturbing image of a dead child appeared Tuesday on dozens of Web sites of U.S. and British companies, becoming the latest example of an escalating barrage of anti-war Internet "hacktivism."</p> <p>Since the war's start, several thousand Web sites have been defaced with anti-war images and slogans, Internet security experts say.</p>

On Tuesday, March 25, the PHP section of Linux and Main was repeatedly defaced by pro-Saddam Hussein crackers. They put up an obscenity-filled page, replete with such things as an American flag with a swastika where the stars belong.