Accused hacker Gary McKinnon has lost a crucial battle in his fight to avoid prosecution in the United States after a British judge ordered his extradition to America.
A British former systems administrator who faces extradition to the US if convicted of hacking American military computers will learn his fate next month.
Gary McKinnon, the UK citizen accused of hacking into computer systems run by NASA and the US military, will not be extradited across the Atlantic to face trial unless the US can guarantee he won't be treated as a terrorist.
A Web site belonging to NASA - the US space authority - was attacked by computer crackers on Wednesday, who replaced the home page with the enigmatic question "Did man really walk on the moon?"
Waiting for the decision on his extradition hearing, expected on 10 May, Gary McKinnon has steeled himself for the possibility that the suspense may last much longer than a mere week and a half.
The British man charged with hacking into a series of computers belonging to the US government has begun his campaign against extradition.
The maintainers of an online archive of defaced Web sites say 13 NASA sites have been modified by anti-war protesters from Brazil.
A British man suspected of hacking into 53 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and US military networks is facing extradition.
NASA disputes a BBC report that a computer hacker put space shuttle astronauts' lives at risk in 1997.
An American teenager will spend six months behind Florida detention centre doors after hacking into military and NASA computer systems.
The British hacker facing extradition to the US on charges of hacking and causing damage to US defence sites has highlighted poor security as a major factor in his ability to wander through the IT systems of some key defence establishments.
He allegedly did it all -- broke into computers, used one to host a hacking chat, stole credit card info and sent out porn spams.
Known as 'Pimpshiz,' the hacker says he's exploited a Windows NT bug to hit NASA, the French national library and others.
A man who officials said once was a confidential FBI source on computer criminals has pleaded guilty to breaking into government computers.
No matter how good your security policies, you will still need to encrypt the data on your most private servers.
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