Hacker Typer - Now you can look like you're doing something important on your computer, like you've always wanted to! (hit hack and just start bashing at your keyboard)
posted by azarbayejani
on Apr 27, 2011 -
71 comments
A blogger for information security firm
Imperva reports the discovery of a
hacker site offering root access on US & foreign government, military & educational sites for sale for prices ranging from $55 to $499, or just database records for the reasonable price of $20/1000. Besides US sites the hacker(s) also offer government servers in India, Taiwan & Italy. The hacker(s) also provide what they claim is
proof of their access for the skeptical or cautious buyer. No credit card offers, please - the only currency they accept is
Liberty Reserve.
posted by scalefree
on Jan 21, 2011 -
29 comments
Wired reports a US Intelligence Analyst has been arrested in connection with the "
Collateral Murder" video released by
Wikileaks. According to the article, SPC Bradley Manning was turned in by former hacker
Adrian Lamo based on concerns about Manning's threat to leak an additional 260,000 classified embassy cables.
posted by uaudio
on Jun 7, 2010 -
80 comments
Ghost shift ghost chips. A tale about a Chumby hardware developer with a keen investigative eye noticing some oddities about microSD FLASH cards from supposedly reputable suppliers.
posted by loquacious
on Feb 16, 2010 -
65 comments
The Happy Hacker offers you the secrets and tools to become an
Überhacker and
Cyberwarrior, and even
how to build a railgun. But who is this Happy Hacker? Though
other folks are now involved with the website, Carolyn P. Meinel is the primary face of The Happy Hacker. She is a long-time computer hacker, going back to
getting unapproved access to the PLATO system (
previously). She started Happy Hacker because "
all sorts of guys were begging me, 'teach me how to hack'." Her webpage gained attention, getting mentioned in
The Happy Mutant Handbook, and being invited to speak at
Defcon. But there are people
who doubt her credentials, and others who are
a lot more harsh. Regardless of the backlash, and the
appearance that the peak of The Happy Hacker has passed,
her articles are still being published.
posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 29, 2009 -
23 comments
overclockblocked , by Sumit Dan. short story told in speculative chippy dialect.
Fucken AIbrid think he so fucking cool with he retrofleshy stylen. Like you don’t already know he dealin double-helix, not just some two-bit qubit.
posted by mwhybark
on Feb 6, 2009 -
61 comments
Serious as a heart attack: A collaboration of various medical researchers in the academic field has led to proof that pacemakers can be
remotely hacked with simple and accessible equipment. This is a proof of concept, but the real question is: How many other pacemakers and medical devices are similarly vulnerable? (Writers may note a new twist available for the assassination of characters in their novels and screenplays.)
posted by spock
on Aug 13, 2008 -
41 comments
Wikipedia wrangling once more: the entire German edition
was shut down this week over the contents of a
single entry. The parents of the article's subject, a German hacker who died in 1998 under
mysterious circumstances, are displeased with his real name being disclosed in the encyclopedia. It is now back online; however, the future of the family's efforts is currently unclear, not only due to the German order's debatable validity in the US - but also because the order was, initially at least,
mistakenly addressed to St. Petersburg, Russia, instead of St. Petersburg, Florida.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane
on Jan 20, 2006 -
18 comments
Hacker Pleads Guilty. The Minnesota man who spread a modified version of the MSBlast worm over the Internet last summer pleaded guilty on Wednesday and faces 18 to 37 months in prison.
posted by semmi
on Aug 12, 2004 -
7 comments
Christopher Andrew Phillips , the University of Texas at Austin student accused of "hacking" the school's computer system, has turned himself in. But reading about
his method makes me wonder if this really is hacking and/or illegal...
posted by Big_B
on Mar 14, 2003 -
13 comments
kevin mitnick, the famed hacker who was released recently from jail has granted Slashdot an
interview in which he debunks many of the myths about him. He provides some insights into the ethics of the
journalists that profitted from his case.
posted by Raichle
on Feb 5, 2003 -
2 comments
Who says DeCSS litigation is
dead? Norwegian court indicts the fellow who cracked DVD protection.
posted by donkeysuck
on Jan 11, 2002 -
2 comments
Is your son a computer hacker? Has your son loaded strange programs like "Flash" on the family computer? Is your son reading dangerous books like "Programming with Perl?" Is your son obsessed with "Lunix?" [sic] Hey, I read it on the web, so it
must be true.
posted by chipr
on Dec 4, 2001 -
26 comments
(In)famous anti-gay site hacked (
copy) - The defacement says, in part, "
nothin against 'First Amendment hosting' we support u just not some of ur sites". So if I understand correctly, they support the first amendment as long as they agree with what is being said? Doesn't this seem a poor form of protest?
posted by revbrian
on Jul 24, 2001 -
24 comments
Not only can Kevin Mitnick not touch a computer, cell phone, or the Internet for three years, but
a judge is trying to bar him from the lecture circut because he's talking about hacking and technology. I wonder, if they get him to stop
talking about technology, are they going to bust him for
thinking about it too?
posted by mathowie
on Apr 28, 2000 -
4 comments
Feds seize Cuban Hacker in a raid early morning this weekend. 6 year old Elian Gonzalez was arrested for hacking Microsoft.
c4str0 oWnz j00 d4d!
Check out this hilarious spoof.
posted by da5id
on Apr 24, 2000 -
0 comments
They bagged the kid who was responsible for all those Denial-of-Service attacks a couple of months ago. He's Canadian.
Here's an interesting legal question: could the US extradite him? The crimes were committed in the US, but he was in Canada at the time he did it, since he worked through the Internet. Whose laws apply?
(By the way, I've seen no indication that the US is considering extradition; I was just curious whether they
could extradite him.)
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Apr 19, 2000 -
18 comments
Last night
Kevin Mitnick was on 60 minutes (the gist of the interview is
quoted here), and I have to say he came off as an utterly harmless geek. He was an information junkie that enjoyed the challenge of cracking firewalls. He never profited from his activities and the affected companies made up their monetary losses. It's a shame he was forced to waste away in prison instead of offer his security expertise to the affected companies.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 24, 2000 -
1 comment
Kevin Mittnick is finally being released from prison today, but I wouldn't call what he's getting as being "free". Prohibiting Kevin from touching a computer for 3 years? This isn't like giving a toddler to a ex-con child molester, it's a computer. A person can do a lot of things besides hack into company servers. How does anyone expect Kevin to make the $125 restitution he owes each month, if he can't use a computer or get a job that requires a computer? Now that I think about it, what percentage of decent jobs are completely free of computers?
posted by mathowie
on Jan 21, 2000 -
5 comments
Recently, MTV had a special on 'hackers' (scroll down to last weeks show), but apparently the people they contacted for background info didn't give them an interesting enough story.
So the guys made one up. The guy behind it all says he was just trying to make MTV's journalists look bad, but that's restating the obvious. Of course MTV is clueless and goes to any length to create a story. The worst part is that MTV isn't alone in this, every news outlet does this. The nightly news looks the way it does for the same reasons, it's all about entertainment.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 18, 1999 -
0 comments
Today, I was searching for some stock art photos at
photodisc. I needed an image of someone programming a computer, and in that search
I found this picture. The words associated with it were all variations of 'hacker' but I was surprised that I didn't see 'leather and flashlight fetish' in the keywords. And by the way, don't you think a hacker would know how to type correctly?
posted by mathowie
on Oct 1, 1999 -
0 comments
