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Mark Hacking had checked into a hotel on Tuesday and was found outside the hotel walking around naked. Needed psychiatric attention.

Chinese Hacker May be PLA The Ministry of Foreign Affairs send an urgent message to the Korean Embassy in Beijing instructing it to confirm whether the recent hacking of computers at major national institutions is connected with the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army. Ahead of this, as the Foreign Ministry was protesting Chinese state-run media distortions of Goguryo history to Chinese Ambassador Li Bin on Wednesday, the ministry requested China's active cooperation in solving the hacking problem. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Shin Bong-kil said Li stated he would relay the request to Beijing and would work hard to see that the facts...

<p>An Internet computer server operated by an Arkansas government agency was transformed last weekend into the online home of dozens of videos featuring Osama bin Laden, Islamic jihadist anthems and terrorist speeches.</p> <p>State government officials removed the files from a computer operated by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department shortly after they were discovered, a government spokesman said. The case highlights an increasing trend of hackers hijacking vulnerable Web servers for the purpose of advocating radical political and terrorist ideologies.</p>

The world's first mobile phone virus, capable of sending itself between handsets, has been discovered by an internet security company in Moscow. The Cabir virus is designed to attack the top-of-the-range models of brands such as Nokia which use the common operating system Symbian. It is disguised as part of the phone's own security software. Once inside, it activates the wireless information transfer system known as Bluetooth. Each time the phone is turned on it searches for other phones nearby with Bluetooth and then sends itself to the first of them. While it is active the phone's screen displays the...

Third Country Hacker Uses Korean Computers to Hack U.S Air Force Space Command Korean police and their U.S counterpart began a joint investigation as several computers of an army unit under the U.S Air Force Space Command (SPACECOM) were hacked by an individual in a third country via a Korean firms’ computers in mid-February. The U.S. concluded that it was a serious case and hurriedly dispatched its investigators to Korea. The two countries began to establish a closely cooperative investigation system and have shared information to identify the hacker. The U.S Air Force Space Command is one of nine major...

Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:00AM EST Prank results in fake closings Cable news outlet changing system By VICKI HYMAN, Staff Writer A local TV news station inadvertently aired a series of smutty business closings as part of its weather coverage Thursday night, thanks to pranksters with decent computer skills and "Saturday Night Live" sensibilities. News 14 Carolina, the 24-hour local news station run by Time Warner Cable, ran the fake announcements mixed with real closings for hours before station workers shut down the automated, Internet-based closings system. Meanwhile, viewers learned that an emporium selling a certain sex accessory would be...

Altering Your Engine With New ChipsBy JIM MOTAVALLI Published: February 13, 2004 WHEN Scott Farrell, a Coast Guard instructor in Newport News, Va., wanted a big power boost for his 1998 Volkswagen Jetta TDI, he didn't lower the suspension, install a hot camshaft or add a free-flow exhaust. Instead, he had a business-card size electronic part installed — a so-called "performance chip" designed to reprogram the car's engine control module to provide more horsepower. "It was a night-and-day difference," he said. Mr. Farrell is just one of an increasing number of car owners using computer chips or software downloads to...

Hatch's handling of hacking decriedShould have hurt Demos -- not GOP, conservatives sayBy Lee DavidsonDeseret Morning NewsWASHINGTON -- A chorus of conservative groups say Sen. Orrin Hatch's attempts to appease Democrats converted a "smoking gun" supposedly proving Democratic corruption of judicial confirmations into a bomb wounding only Republicans. Sen. Orrin Hatch Criticism of the Utah Republican comes as Manuel Miranda, a top GOP aide overseeing judicial nominations, resigned Friday amid a probe into whether Republicans hacked into Senate computers to obtain and leak Democratic memos about judicial confirmations. Another unnamed aide, said to be a Utah native, quit earlier after...

How to Hack an Election Concerned citizens have been warning that new electronic voting technology being rolled out nationwide can be used to steal elections. Now there is proof. When the State of Maryland hired a computer security firm to test its new machines, these paid hackers had little trouble casting multiple votes and taking over the machines' vote-recording mechanisms. The Maryland study shows convincingly that more security is needed for electronic voting, starting with voter-verified paper trails. When Maryland decided to buy 16,000 AccuVote-TS voting machines, there was considerable opposition. Critics charged that the new touch-screen machines, which...

Internet voting has been viewed as a possible cure for some of the ills that afflict the mechanics of American democracy. Recently, the technology has seemed to move ahead of any serious consideration of whether it is actually a good idea to allow home computer owners to choose a president in the same way they order bath towels online or send e-mail to their relatives. But now there are grave questions about whether even the technology makes sense. Four computer scientists brought in by the Pentagon to analyze a plan for Internet voting by the military issued a blistering report...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Prosecutors looking to throw the book at accused computer hackers have come across a legal defense expected to become even more widespread in an era of hijacked PCs and laptops that threatens to blur the lines of personal responsibility: the computer did it. In one case that was being watched as a bellwether by computer security experts, Aaron Caffrey, 19, was acquitted earlier this month in the United Kingdom on charges of hacking into the computer system of the Houston Pilots, an independent contractor for the Port of Houston, in September 2001. Caffrey had been charged...

BUCHAREST, Romania - It was nearly 70 degrees below zero outside, but the e-mail on a computer at the South Pole Research Center sent a different kind of chill through the scientists inside. "I've hacked into the server. Pay me off or I'll sell the station's data to another country and tell the world how vulnerable you are," the message warned. Proving it was no hoax, the message included scientific data showing the extortionist had roamed freely around the server, which controlled the 50 researchers' life-support systems. The FBI (news - web sites) traced the e-mail to an Internet cafe...

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,...

Cryptology experts at the Technion in Haifa have managed to crack the code used by 850 million cellular phones, finding faults that could be used by thieves to steal calls and even to impersonate phone owners in the middle of an ongoing call. If the cellular phone companies in 197 countries want to correct the code errors that exposes them to trickery and abuse, they will have to call in each customer to make a change in the cellphone's programming. The researchers -- Prof. Eli Biham of the Technion's computer sciences faculty, doctoral student Elad Barkan and master's degree graduate...

FBI and Department of Homeland Security investigators have tracked the source of the fast-moving Sobig virus and are working with Internet service providers to try to stop the next phase in the virus's attack, which was expected to begin at 3 p.m. Eastern Time Friday afternoon. The FBI has served a grand jury subpoena on Easynews.com, a Phoenix-based Internet service provider that provides access to "Usenet," a worldwide online bulletin board system. According to a source with knowledge of the investigation's focus, the person or persons who released the latest version of Sobig used an Easynews.com account to release the...

Evidence gathered by Microsoft, the FBI, and the Secret Service on the worldwide attacks made against the computers running the Windows operating system fits the profile of 'terrorist activity.'Industry sources citing Mirosoft officials told World Tribune.com that the recent attacks from the 'Blaster' worm and its variants, coupled with an email virus called 'SoBig-F' show signs of a coordinated attack by an entity wanting to disrupt world commerce.Microsoft is cooperating with both the FBI and the Secret Service and will report their findings in the next few days.While at present no terrorist organizations have claimed responsibility for these attacks in...

<p>Although government and energy-industry officials have continued to state that Thursday's massive power blackout was not an act of terrorism, they are unable to rule out the possibility that a computer hacker plunged 50 million people into darkness, a source told Fox News Monday.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES - The Department of Homeland Security has issued an unprecedented second warning to Internet users about a security flaw in Microsoft Corp. software that could leave about 75 percent of the country's computers vulnerable to hacker attacks.</p> <p>The latest warning comes two weeks after Microsoft issued a bulletin notifying computer users it had discovered a critical flaw in its most common Windows operating systems, including its newest versions, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.</p>

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...