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Major headline on Drudge claims that hackers altered DJIA on major web sites. My Dad called me after making the same observation on several websites. It appeared that the DJIA was in the 8400 range and had dropped roughly 1200 points. The incorrect value appeared on the CNBC website, Quicken.com, and on MSNBC's site. The value has been corrected. Were hackers responsible for this? Is there some political motive here?

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Attacks on computer systems by virus writers and hackers continued to rise during the first half of the year, the Internet-security firm Symantec Corp. said this week.</p> <p>Attacks by automated programs that spread like viruses and worms to exploit software flaws rose 20 percent in the first half of 2003 compared with the previous six-month period.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three Web sites that provide spam blocking lists have shut down as a result of crippling Internet attacks in what experts on Thursday said is an escalation in the war between spammers and opponents of unsolicited e-mails. Anti-spam experts said that they think spammers are behind the attacks, although they have no way of proving it. The technological war comes as Congress considers a federal anti-spam law and California adopts what is widely considered to be the toughest law in the country. The California law, signed on Tuesday, allows people to sue spammers for $1,000 per...

Hacker Adrian Lamo, 22, surrendered to federal authorities in California on Tuesday to face charges stemming from his alleged breach of the New York Times network in February 2002. Patty Pontello, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, confirmed that Lamo surrendered to the U.S. Marshall's Service at federal court in Sacramento. Lamo was booked and is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gregory Hollows Tuesday afternoon, Pontello said. Pontello expects Lamo will be sent to New York to face the charges against him. Lamo became famous following his widely publicized hacks into corporations such as Yahoo, WorldCom, ExciteAtHome,...

Security Watch : Don't get burned by viruses and hackers. With a publicly available search engine, a few well-chosen e-mail addresses, and off-the-shelf viral code, anyone can commit an act of cyberterrorism--or so says Roelof Temmingh, technical director of SensePost, a South African computer security company. Speaking at the recent Black Hat Briefings and Defcon 11 conferences, Temmingh explained that the current methods of assailing computer networks--denial-of-service attacks (DoS) or remote break-ins--inconvenience too few people to really affect a nation's information infrastructure. The sort of exploit that could really hurt a country, Temmingh suggests, would more likely be based on...

Is drudge down for anybody else? This line is all I get: drudgereport.comÀº ÆÄÅ· ¶Ç´Â Æ÷¿öµù ¼­ºñ½º¿¡ µî·ÏµÇÁö¾ÊÀº µµ¸ÞÀÎÀÔ´Ï´Ù. It may be chinese. An hour or so, ago, FR went down, with the 404 message from a Chinese server: http://www.rgnames.com/RGNames_PopUp3.html Is this just ME, or locally, or have others had the same problem?? DG

Microsoft warns of critical flaws in Internet Explorer Flaws could enable attacker to take control of user's computer AUGUST 21, 2003 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp. released a patch for a number of flaws in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser yesterday, including two it rated "critical" for some versions of the browser, which could enable an attacker to take control of a user's computer. The company also released a patch for a flaw, rated "important," in the MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) element of its Windows operating systems. The critical flaws affect IE Versions 5.01, 5.5, 6.0...

Al-Qaeda sources announced that they are responsible for the recent power blackout in America. One more lie to add to a thousand tall tales spun by hidden terrorists. In fact, the recent power blackout actually demonstrated that the electric computer network operated correctly. The blackout began when a critical main line went down, leaving the rest of the network to carry the electrical load. The network noted that the load was too much to carry and began to shut itself down. The so-called "domino" effect began as each segment of the grid detected an overload and shut down, including 10...

As far as we know, no one has ever deliberately hacked into the U.S. electrical grid and pulled the plug on millions or even thousands of people. Just as on Sept. 10, 2001, no one had ever deliberately crashed a jet airliner into a skyscraper. Is the power grid vulnerable to cyberattack? What about natural gas pipelines, nuclear plants, and water systems? Or refineries and other industrial facilities that run on similar Internet-enabled digital control systems? Could a terrorist or disgruntled employee cause lethal accidents and millions of dollars of damage? What about a bored 14-year-old? "Are we vulnerable?" asked...

The University of Michigan has expelled a graduate student accused of hacking a computer system and using information to forge e-mails and get copies of final exams, the state attorney general's office said Wednesday. Ning Ma, 24, a Chinese citizen on a student visa, was arrested last month and accused of collecting information from more than 60 students and professors. Ning was expelled Friday, and the consulate has been notified of his arrest, said Sage Eastman, spokesman for the attorney general's office. The University of Michigan, citing confidentiality laws, said it couldn't confirm the expulsion, and Ning's attorney didn't return...

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - A fraudulently-registered Internet website that for nearly a month misrepresented the views of and claimed to be operated by pro-gun researcher Dr. John Lott was allegedly the target of illegal hacking Tuesday night by an unidentified person or group supportive of the Second Amendment. "OK! I've got the site now! Now the tables have turned and they're going to jail, without a penny to their names," the anonymous hacker wrote. "What kind of message should we leave to all those commie b******* ... let me know what you think of this: 'If you mess with the...

A website pretending to be that of pro-gun activist John Lott has been hacked... The site owners posed to be John Lott and misquoted him.

A man has been cleared of child porn charges, after investigators found that an Internet attacker was responsible for the presence of illicit images on his PC A man accused of storing child pornography on his computer has been cleared after it emerged that his computer had been infected by a Trojan horse, which was responsible for transferring the images onto his PC. Julian Green, 45, was taken into custody last October after police with a search warrant raided his house. He then spent a night in a police cell, nine days in Exeter prison and three months in a...

Microsoft's Web site was made inaccessible for an hour and 40 minutes Friday afternoon when a denial-of-service attack overwhelmed the site with traffic, making it impossible for legitimate page requests to get through. The outage, which began about 1:21 p.m. Pacific time, was the result of a conventional denial-of-service attack and not a software vulnerability being exploited, a Microsoft spokesman says. That distinction is important because the software company issued a bulletin July 14 warning customers of a critical vulnerability in its Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Following that notice, the Department of...

U.S. says Windows vulnerable to attack By CNET News.com Staff August 1, 2003, 7:46 AM PT The federal government says there is new evidence that an attack is being planned on computers using Microsoft's Windows. The Department of Homeland Security issued an updated advisory this week about possible hacker attacks on computers running Microsoft operating systems. The advisory warns that several working exploits are now in widespread distribution on the Internet. "These exploits provide full remote system level access to vulnerable computers," the advisory states. Microsoft issued a patch to plug the hole two weeks ago. No worm code...

The U.S. government has issued a stern warning that computer hackers may be preparing to launch a sweeping attack that could potentially compromise millions of computers running Microsoft Corp.'s popular Windows operating systems. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's cyber-security branch reported that it had detected a dramatic increase in Internet-wide scanning for vulnerable computers. In an unusually ominous alert, the department warned the threat could cause a "significant impact" on the Internet. Experts advised computer users to apply a free repair patch that Microsoft has offered on its Web site since July 16, when it acknowledged that...

(CNN) -- Seeing a rise in hacker activity that could be a prelude to a broad Internet attack, security experts Thursday urged computer users to protect their machines by installing a free patch offered by Microsoft. The Homeland Security Department warned it has detected an increase in hackers scanning the Internet to find vulnerable computers. "That's a sure sign the intruder community is actively interested in finding out who they can exploit," said Jeffrey Havrilla, an Internet security analyst at the government's CERT Coordination Center, which monitors computer security. Concerns mount The vulnerability affects almost all computers running Microsoft's Windows...

WASHINGTON -- Government and industry experts consider brewing hacker activity a precursor to a broad Internet attack that would target enormous numbers of computers vulnerable from a flaw in Windows software from Microsoft Corp. Experts described an unusual confluence of conditions that heighten prospects for a serious disruption soon. They cite the high numbers of potential victims and increasingly sophisticated attack tools already tested successfully by hackers in recent days. The Homeland Security Department cautioned Wednesday that it had detected an "Internet-wide increase in scanning" for victim computers. In an unusually ominous alert, it warned the threat could cause a...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government and industry experts are increasingly concerned about brewing hacker activity they consider a precursor to a broad Internet attack that will target a serious flaw in Windows software from Microsoft Corp. Experts are advising computer users with renewed urgency to apply a free repairing patch that Microsoft has offered on its Web site since July 16, when it acknowledged that the flaw affected nearly all versions of its flagship Windows operating system software. The Homeland Security Department cautioned Wednesday that hackers in recent days have successfully tested new tools to seize control of such vulnerable...

It's time for would be RIAA attackers to run for the hills. The pigopolists have installed TST-Secure-OS on their Web servers. This Web server brand is not well know to hacker neophytes. Those in-the-know, however, tremble in fear when TST's rock-solid software rears its ugly head. The code was developed as part of a ten-year, government funded engineering effort to block hackers from unpopular Web sites. Well, not really. More likely, the TST-Secure-OS is a disguised version of Microsoft IIS 6.0. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has remodeled its "Hide the Web site" game into a "Hide the...