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  • Kevin Mitnick Web site hacked

    Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message.

  • Graffiti gang hits government Web sites

    In one of the largest bursts yet of Internet graffiti, a group of online vandals simultaneously defaced 26 government Web sites in the US, Australia and the UK.

  • Web vandalism contest results unclear

    Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of Web site defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online graffiti contest.

  • Ninety percent of hackers are kids

    Most computer hackers are just bored kids with too much time on their hands, according to one industry expert who likens them to street vandals, and only ten percent of hackers really know what they're doing.

  • Vandals attack Microsoft, again

    Microsoft's New Zealand Web site has been defaced by vandals, who left behind a page of graffiti, including "Another Micro$oft was hacked? !!Yes!!".

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  • Hackers organise vandalism contest

    A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.

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