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Gmail accounts 'wide open to exploit' - report By John Leyden Published Friday 29th October 2004 16:50 GMT Google's high profile webmail service, Gmail, is vulnerable to a security exploit that might allow hackers full access to a user's email account simply by knowing the user name, according to reports.The security flaw allows full access to users' accounts, with no need of a password, Israeli news site Nana says . Using a hex-encoded XSS link, the victim's cookie file can be stolen by a hacker, who can later use it to identify himself to Gmail as the original owner of...

Microsoft on Tuesday published 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new flaws that affect the company's products. The advisories, and patches published with the bulletins, range from an "important" flaw affecting only Microsoft Windows NT Server to a collection of eight security holes, including three rated "critical," that leave Internet Explorer open to attack. Microsoft's highest severity rating for software flaws is its "critical" ranking, while "important" is considered slightly less severe. One flaw, in Microsoft Excel, even affects Apple Computer's Mac OS X. The abundance of flaws could leave corporate PCs vulnerable to...

SNIP At some point in their wardriving experience, Timmins and Botbyl came upon a Lowe's hardware store with an open wireless network. Timmins later admitted to Kevin Poulsen of Security Focus that what he did next was technically illegal: he used the Lowe's network to check his e-mail. When he realized it was Lowe's private network, however, he says, he disconnected. That in itself might have been the end of the story. However, Lowe's became aware of the breach and contacted the FBI, who, after its investigation, charged Timmins with one count of unauthorized computer access. And that by itself...

(KSL News) -- Police have confirmed that the human remains found Friday morning at the Salt Lake County landfill are those of Lori Hacking. In a statement sent to the media Detective Phil Eslinger said, "This afternoon the Salt Lake City Police Department was notified by teh Office of the Medical Examiner that dental records positively identified the remains found at the land fill as those of Lori Hacking." After weeks of fruitless efforts, the search for the body is developing at breakneck speed. First, searchers found the body at 8:20 this morning. When they made the official announcement a...

12:42pm Eastern, Fox News Alert reports unconfirmed find of human remains in a landfill near Salt Lake City. Could possibly be the remains of Lori Hacking.

Hacking Waives Preliminary Hearing Sep. 23, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mark Hacking, accused of killing his wife Lori while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin, waived his preliminary hearing Thursday. "Yes, your honor," Hacking told Judge William Barrett when asked he understood what it meant to give up a preliminary hearing, which is essentially acknowledging that the state has enough evidence against him to proceed with a murder trial. Hacking wore handcuffs and a bulletproof vest over his yellow jail jumpsuit. Those were the only three words Hacking said during the short hearing,...

Friend of Mark Hacking Describes Mark The Night Before Lori DisappearedSep 17, 2004 10:06 am US/Mountain A new witness says he was with Mark Hacking the Sunday night police say Mark Hacking murdered his wife. The police weren't interested in this man's story, because he was in jail. But after 2News told police about the witness, they are now arranging to talk to him. “He was going nuts. He was going absolutely nuts," said “Jim”, a friend of Mark Hacking. Jim, (not his real name) has been friends with Mark Hacking for five years and he says he was with...

Mark Hacking Says He's Writing a Book Sep. 16, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As police search the county landfill for the body of Lori Hacking, her husband, charged with her murder, is working on a book. Mark Hacking said in a letter to a tv station that any proceeds from the book would go to the Lori Hacking memorial scholarship fund, which was established by the woman's mother. The Salt Lake television station said Wednesday night that jail officials had confirmed that the letter had come from there, and Mark Hacking's father, Douglas Hacking, said it was...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 29, 2004As defense, insanity is tough sellFew attempt it because of Utah's strict statutesBy Linda ThomsonDeseret Morning News When someone is charged with murder, the first response of many people is "He must have been insane." Leonard Gall, right, with attorney Stephen McCaughey, pleads guilty but mentally ill in September 2003.Associated Press And in the case of Mark Douglas Hacking — charged with murdering his wife, Lori — other behaviors seem not quite right: Things like running around naked outside a hotel and checking into a mental ward before his arrest.For now there is no...

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Hacking Makes First In-Person Court Appearance Aug. 16, 2004 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mark Hacking, charged with shooting his wife in the head and throwing her body into a trash bin, showed up in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday wearing a bulletproof vest. (Photo Credit: Francisco Kjolseth, Pool) Hacking, dressed in yellow jail garb and orange sneakers, said nothing as the judge scheduled a preliminary hearing for Sept. 23. Hacking's first in-person court appearance came after police marked their 12th night searching a county landfill without finding her body or .22-caliber firearm. Hacking reported his wife missing July...

Deseret Morning News, Sunday, August 15, 2004Grief, anger, love fill mother's heartCopyright 2004 Deseret Morning NewsBy Jennifer DobnerDeseret Morning News OREM — It was the Thursday after Lori Hacking was reported missing and Thelma Soares, Lori's mother, had gone to the hospital to see her son-in-law, Mark. Thelma Soares asks July 20 that the search for her daughter continue.Ryan Long, Deseret Morning News At the time it seemed that Mark Hacking had collapsed with grief over the disappearance of his newly pregnant wife. He was undergoing psychological testing at the University of Utah Medical Center and had been incoherent when...

Surveillance Seized in Hacking Probe 14 minutes ago By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer SALT LAKE CITY - Police have seized surveillance equipment from the psychiatric hospital where Mark Hacking worked as an orderly and the convenience store where he was seen twice the night his wife, Lori, presumably died. Hacking, 28, is accused of killing Lori Hacking, 27, while she slept and dumping her body in a trash bin. Authorities believe the bin is at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, Hacking's former employer. The equipment taken from the hospital was a digital recorder for surveillance cameras, according...

Deseret Morning News, Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Prison time really up to parole board Sentencing guidelines are only a suggestionBy Linda Thomson and Amy Joi BrysonDeseret Morning News TV commentators on the Fox News Network were reeling Monday night, apparently shocked by the "leniency" of Utah's homicide laws. One demanded to know why Mark Hacking hadn't been charged with capital murder in the apparent death of his wife, Lori, and suggested the first-degree homicide charge against Hacking might be referred to as "misdemeanor murder." Deseret Morning News graphic Also debated was the 5-years-to-life sentence a first-degree felony charge carries...

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Don't look now, but camera is watching Privacy: The video eye is almost everywhere these days, but the view isn't like they portray on crime shows By Bob Mims The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-13 00:25:49.959 On a plane, train or bus, strolling a mall or park, using an ATM, riding an elevator, pumping gas, feeding coins into a tollbooth, in class or even your doctor's examining room - someone could be watching.     Are you a store clerk? Your cash register may be the star attraction of a security cam. So may be the hallways at...

Letter shows Lori's heartache Typewritten note among early findings that made police suspicious By Matthew D. LaPlante The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-12 02:03:46.427 On the day Mark Hacking reported his wife missing, police found a letter in which she pleaded for him to change his ways.    "I want to grow old with you, but I can't do it under these conditions," she wrote.    The typewritten letter was found on a shelf in a spare bedroom of the couple's apartment about the same time an officer pulled a blood-stained hunting knife from a bedside drawer.    Within hours,...

Arraignment of Hacking puts case in lawyers' hands By Stephen Hunt and Matthew D. LaPlanteThe Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune 2004-08-11 00:55:49.001 Now that Mark Hacking has been charged with murder, prosecutors will begin delivering piles of police reports, witness interviews and crime lab reports to defense attorney D. Gilbert Athay.   In those piles, Athay will find statements made to police by Hacking's parents, brothers, co-workers and friends, all of whom have provided information leading to criminal charges.    Athay will also find testimony from Lori Hacking's co-workers, the couple's neighbors and witnesses who believe they saw Lori or Mark,...

Deseret Morning News, Tuesday, August 10, 2004Rifle used, Yocom saysHacking bail soars to $1 million after charges are filedBy Pat Reavy and Lucinda Dillon KinkeadDeseret Morning News Mark Hacking was to make his first court appearance today in what prosecutors alleged Monday was the "gutless" shooting death of his wife, Lori, as she slept. Searchers are using excavators at the Salt Lake County Landfill in an effort to find Lori Hacking's body. They have gone through about half of the trash in the search area. Chris Bergin, Deseret Morning News The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office on Monday filed...

Hidden Truth: Lori Hacking Case Aug. 6, 2004 On July 24, while sitting in a psychiatric hospital, Mark Hacking's brothers say he told them that he killed his wife, Lori, and then put her body in the trash. It is believed her body is buried under more than 2,000 tons of garbage. By all accounts, Mark Hacking worshipped his wife of five years, and he wasn’t afraid to show it. Correspondent Maureen Maher has this 48 Hours update. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He adored her. And she adored him,” recalls Lori’s mother, Thelma Soares. “I couldn’t have asked for a better son-in-law. Lori...