MetaFilter posts tagged with hackers

Cyber Command Über Alles

homunculus — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:55:24 -0800

Attention Geeks and Hackers: Uncle Sam's Cyber Force Wants You! Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA

FBI PowerPoint, Chinese Hackers, and Counterfeit Routers, Oh My!

homunculus — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:11:00 -0800

FBI Fears Chinese Hackers Have Back Door Into US Government & Military. [Via /.]

"Everyone who logged on, it affected to some extent, whether by causing headaches or seizures"

orthogonality — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:00:03 -0800

Possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims:

"I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts,"... "I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak."

Sears Wants To Hack Your Computer

ikkyu2 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:52:19 -0800

Online communities to become more 'all-encompassing.' If you join the SHC community on Sears.com, all web traffic to and from your computer thereafter will be copied and sent to a third party marketing research firm - including, for example, your secure sessions with your bank! The Sears.com proxy will send your logins and passwords along with a cleartext copy of all the supposedly secure data. But wait, it gets better: you can only view the true TOS once the proxy has already been installed. Hey Matt, you're lagging behind - this is the future of online community-building! [Via.]

Make sure to clean your logfiles.

flatluigi — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:31:54 -0800

Ever admired those hard-working hackers, toiling away to get you the programs you've always loathed to have? Have you ever dreamt of exploring the innards of someone else's computer but have held back due to those pesky legalities? If you said yes to either of the above questions or just want to play an online hacking simulation, then SlaveHack is the website for you. Protip: Some useful programs and extensions, including a logfile parser, can be found here.

Kiwicon Hacks Up Media Coverage

sycophant — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:55:09 -0800

The organisers of New Zealand hacking convention Kiwicon have created some PR the only way they know how, l33t h4x0ring. Using a XSS bug in NZ's largest newspaper the NZ Herald they created a fake URL that injected javascript to rewrite an article there. The URL got passed around and soon ended up with genuine media coverage in NZ Herald's biggest competitor Stuff. An earlier effort on the NZ Computerworld site was quickly fixed and got no media coverage.

Herding Zombies

dersins — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:03:09 -0800

Interesting "New Yorker" article about online extortion via DDoS attacks. Call me naive and underinformed, but I had little understanding of how this works. "In the most common scenario, the bots surreptitiously connect hundreds, or thousands, of zombies to a channel in a chat room. The process is called “herding,” and a herd of zombies is called a botnet."

Look at all the .gov sites infected by

basilwhite — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:53:35 -0800

Look at all the .gov sites infected by the "0wn3d by NoPh0BiA" hack. Sad.

Molleindustria

andrew cooke — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:48:51 -0800

Molleindustria + fr ie nds. As featured on the BBC: Hackers re-invent political protests.
Links ordered by quality, roughly. Some slightly NSFW with some NSFW connections. Various links include sound.

Every Bit Is a Work of Art

moonbird — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:40:20 -0800

The art of abstraction: 'the idea that anyone who creates anything is a hacker.'