Researchers at Imperva reported administrative access to a number of military, government and educational Websites being offered for sale online. – Researchers at Imperva have
discovered administrative access to numerous military, government and education
Websites being advertised on an underground hacker forum.
The owners of the sites have
all been notified of the situation, Imperva told eWEEK. Among
them are sites belonging to the Depart…
David Kernell, convicted of breaking into Palin’s e-mail account in 2008, has been sent to prison instead of a halfway house like a judge recommended. – The man convicted of breaking into Sarah Palins e-mail account
during the 2008 presidential election is now serving his sentence in
prison – not a halfway house as a judge recommended.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons,
David Kernell, 23, is serving his time at the Ashland Federal
Correct…
A Scottish man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for spamming out e-mails laced with malware and stealing data. – A 33-year-old Scottish man was sentenced today to 18 months
in prison in the U.K.
for spamming out malware-infected e-mails and stealing data.
The sentencing today of Matthew Anderson of Drummuir, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland, brought to an end to an investigation first launched four years
ago….
Security patches from Microsoft and Apple joined the sentencing of e-mail hacker David Kernell as some of the top news stories for the past week. – From Microsoft and Apple security updates to the sentencing of the man
who hacked former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail, there was
no shortage of news this past week in security.
In a relatively small Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft released three
security bulletins to cover
…
David Kernell was sentenced to more than a year for hacking the e-mail of former VP candidate Sarah Palin in an incident that highlighted abuse of e-mail password recovery systems. – The man convicted of breaking into former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palins
person e-mail account was sentenced Nov. 12 to serve a year and a
day in either a federal prison or a halfway house.
Twenty-three-year-old David Kernell, son of Tennessee state
representative and Democrat Mike Kernell, was convi…
A hacker exploited a SQL injection vulnerability on the Royal Navy Website to steal administrator passwords and usernames. – A hacker reportedly exploited a SQL injection vulnerability on the Website of Britain’s Royal Navy, according to media reports.
The incident took place Nov. 5, when a hacker known by the alias
TinKode is believed to have attacked the site and stolen passwords
and usernames. Right now, the si…
A Richmond, Va., man was sentenced to 27 months in prison Oct. 29 after pleading guilty to hacking his former employer’s Website. – A former IT director was sentenced Oct. 29 to 27 months in federal
prison for hacking a companys Website after the company fired him.
Darnell H. Albert-El, 53, of Richmond, Va., pleaded guilty to one
count of intentionally damaging a protected computer without
authorization. He was also ordered …
A 27-year-old man charged with hacking into the networks of VOIP providers and reselling more than 10 million minutes of Internet phone service receives a 10-year sentence. – A man federal authorities said is the first person to be charged with
hacking voice-over-IP providers and reselling hacked VOIP services was
handed a 10-year prison sentence Sept. 24.
The sentencing of Edwin Andres Pena, 27, in federal court in Newark,
N.J., followed a three-year chase that to…
A hacker linked to a cyber-crime ring that illegally withdrew about $9 million from ATM machines around the world receives a six-year suspended sentence from authorities in Russia. – A hacker linked to the infamous $9 million RBS WorldPay ATM heist was
given a six-year suspended sentence
by Russian authorities for his role in the crime, according
to reports.
In exchange for providing information to authorities, Viktor Pleshchuk,
28, of St. Petersburg, Russia,
quot;rece…
The FBI has taken into custody a hacker who may be involved in the AT&T security breach that exposed the names of more than 100,000 Apple iPad 3G users, including high-profile government officials. – The FBI announced it detained a member
of a group of computer programmers allegedly involved in the Apple iPad
3G security breach
that exposed the identities of more than 100,000 iPad users, including
celebrities and top government officials. The breach occurred through
an exploit of AT amp;Ts …
A federal jury convicts the son of a prominent Tennessee Democrat of illegally accessing the e-mail account of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign.
– The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted April 30 for
hacking the e-mail account of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008
presidential campaign.
According to authorities, a federal jury convicted 22-year-old David
Kernell, son of Rep. Mike Kernell, of obstruction of just…
Mozilla patches a Firefox vulnerability exploited at the CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest in March. Among Firefox, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Google Chrome, only Google’s browser emerged from the contest unscathed.
– Mozilla has patched the Firefox flaw exploited during the Pwn2Own
contest at the CanSecWest security conference, held March 24 to 26.
The bug was discovered and exploited by a researcher from MWR InfoSecurity
going by the hacker alias quot;Nils. quot; According
to Mozilla, the vulnerability wa…
Hacker Albert Gonzalez receives another 20-year sentence to run concurrently with the one he received March 25, meaning Gonzalez will serve a maximum of 20 years for his roles in some of the largest known data security breaches in recent memory.
– Hacker Albert Gonzalez received another 20 year-sentence March 26 to run concurrently with the one he received sentence he received March 25 in two other cases.
Today’s sentencing brought the odyssey of the 28-year-old cyber-criminal to a close, in a case covering the massive breach of Heartland P…
Hacker Albert Gonzalez is sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in hacking TJX, Barnes Noble, OfficeMax and other retailers. He faces the possibility of more time behind bars when he is sentenced for his role in hacking a slew of other companies, including Heartland Payment Systems.
– The
mastermind behind some of the most high-profile data breaches in recent history
was sentenced on March 25 to 20 years in prison.
Albert
Gonzalez, 28, pleaded guilty in 2009 to charges in Massachusetts,
New York and New
Jersey and faced as many as 25 years behind bars for hacking
several…
China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country’s biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for making hacker tools available online.
– China announced it has arrested three people in connection with operating a hacker training school that distributed malware and hacking tools to its members in online forums.
According to Xinhua,
China
s state-run newspaper, three people were arrested in connection with making the tools availabl…
China’s top Internet search engine Baidu said Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit in the United States against the firm that manages its US domain registration following a hacking attack last week. The announcement came one week after Google, which trails Baidu in market share in China, said it
Gary McKinnon, who is accused of hacking U.S. military and NASA computers, experienced another setback in his bid to block extradition to the United States. The British Home Secretary has decided not to get involved in McKinnon’s case, meaning the hacker could be extradited in the coming weeks.
– The British home secretary
has refused to block Gary McKinnons extradition to the United States to face charges of hacking into U.S. military computers.
According to reports, Home
Secretary Alan Johnson decided new medical evidence was not sufficient cause
for him to block McKinnons extradition….
The most alarming is that Jacques Erasmus, Director of Prevx’s security team, is also a well documented hacker. “Ex Hacker” is what he calls himself, but we are likely to find that his hacker’s days aren’t as far in the past as he’d like us to believe.
Researchers at Mac security firm Intego have uncovered a new tool hackers can use to steal data from jailbroken Apple iPhones. The tool leverages the same default password issue as the ikee worm targeting iPhone users in Australia.
– Security researchers have found a new tool targeting users of jailbroken iPhones.
On the heels of the discovery of a worm targeting jailbroken iPhones in Australia, security researchers at Intego now say they have detected a program known as iPhone/Privacy.A that hackers can use to swipe person…
