The latest innovation in identity fraud typically begins with an unexpected e-mail message from a financial institution proclaiming something like: "Your account information needs to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports."
Why is it that "Gray hat" hackers, neither corporate pros nor havoc wreakers, are increasingly falling on the wrong side of the law?
The UK teenager accused of hacking a major US port's computer systems claims two hackers hijacked his PC without his knowledge.
Patrick Gregory was caught during nationwide antihacker raids last year by the FBI. He faces up to five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine.
Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading for calm.
A US citizen is thought to have become the first person to be accused of hacking a wireless network in order to send spam.
Hackers have targeted Network Solutions - the keeper of Internet address suffixes such as .com and .org - redirecting its traffic to some of the companies that will soon compete with it.
Kevin Mitnick, one of the world's best-known hackers, is back--with a book and a business. Now he's advising corporations on how to secure their networks.
A man who officials said once was a confidential FBI source on computer criminals has pleaded guilty to breaking into government computers.
Judgement day apparently won't arrive on time for Lewis DePayne, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to a U.S. federal wire fraud count for attempting to obtain software from a cellular phone company.
Like many consumers, Paris Hilton is having trouble protecting her own data. The entire contents of her mobile phone address book have turned up on the Internet.
When imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick pleaded guilty to seven felonies last Friday -- assenting to a plea agreement that may see him released by the end of the year -- the news quickly spread to observers with very different interpretations of its significance.
The maintainers of an online archive of defaced Web sites say 13 NASA sites have been modified by anti-war protesters from Brazil.
Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick is skeptical about some claims surrounding the Microsoft attack, including one that Microsoft itself was watching the hacker. Was there something fishy going on?
A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial law, according to a U.S. attorney's office.
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