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Written by flatline
Monday, 18 August 2008 |
From XKCD:
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 August 2008 )
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NYTimes article on cyber crime ring |
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Written by evoltech
Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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The New York Times ran an article today on the indictment of a few suspects in an investigation of hackers working in the US, China, and Russia who are accused of some high profile credit card scams. An interesting detail from the article is that the key suspect was hired by the US government as an informant and ended up using his position to keep other hackers informed on the movement of the FBI and secret service. In the end they ended up busting the informant. Some other interesting details from the article are tactics that were used to build a case against the accused, the fact that the accused were almost all busted crossing international borders, none of them had their hard drives encrypted, more then $11 million was made in 2 years, and that the initial exploit was found while war driving!!! Check out the article for yourself here. |
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Written by flatline
Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
IMPORTANT
Apparently some scum bag has started a phishing scam specifically targeted at riseup.net webmail accounts. If you have a riseup.net account be on the lookout for the following email:
------------------ Original Message ------------------
Subject: URGENT UPDATE
From: "RISEUP WEBMAIL"
Date: Sat, July 26, 2008 9:38 pm
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
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Dear riseup valid customer,
we apologize for the bad network service of your mail box,
due to our service mentainance we hereby ask you to send
the following detail to the webmaster for
update.thank you for your understanding,bear with us.
FULL NAME:
RISEUP EMAIL ACCOUNT:
PASSWORD:
OCCUPATION:
LOCATION:
The following details should be send to the webmaster
via email riseupdate [at] yahoo.com
SquirrelMail 1.4.13
IMP 4.1.6
And do NOT respond to it. Please remember, don't ever give ANYONE your password. Riseup webmail (or any other webmail service) will never ask for your password. Play safe kids. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 27 July 2008 )
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Written by flatline
Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
ITP.net is reporting on 'the webs growing problem child', the hacktivist.
According to itp.net: "The ever-spawning breed of hackers and malevolent wrongdoers within the various realms of cyberspace have mutated to produce a new and more politically charged offspring, the hacktivist.
With both 'hacking' and 'activism' fuelling his angst, the hacktivist is now starting to show up on the web sites that we know and trust. "
First of all, I have to take issue with the phrase "With both 'hacking' and 'activism' fueling his angst", this implies that all hacktivists are angsty teenage boys. This is just stupid, hacktivists are not inherently boys or teenagers, some of the best hacktivists (and hackers) are women in there 30's and 40's, and none of the hacktivists I know are 'angsty'. And since when does activism fuel angst? I thought that activism was a way to fix things, not to be sad. And since when does hacking fuel angst? As far as I know what it mostly fuels is curiosity and learning. I also have to take issue with the title, "Hacked off", what the FUCK does that even mean? This article is one of the worst examples of journalism I have ever seen, (even worse than my own.) There are no facts, no research and no truth. Only insinuations that hacktivists are pests, and script kiddies who only deface sites.
You can read the article at http://www.itp.net/news/525670-hacked-off for a good laugh.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 27 July 2008 )
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RNC Welcoming comittee updates |
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Written by evoltech
Saturday, 12 July 2008 |
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The RNC Welcoming committee made the news on fox. You can also check out their radio show they had on KFAI where they talk about their plans, play some tunes, make fun of Bill Oreilly, and address some rumors.
Hackbloc is happy to be working with the communications team supporting the action by contributing to the tapatio project. Please visit the site and find out how you can contribute. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 12 July 2008 )
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Daemons of the Damned
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