The appeal which aimed at avoiding the extradition of the Briton responsible for what is considered to be the biggest military hack in history was rejected by the European Court of Human Rights, according to The Register. Before even judging the case, the high court decided to step aside from the litigation and did not accept the man's plea. Garry McKinnon was arrested in the UK, his home country, six years ago, but has never been charged. Meanwhile, US authorities, in an attempt to get him extradited, filed a lawsuit against him.McKinnon was given a negative sentence by the High Court back in 2006, but appealed the extradition decisio... [read more >>] According to the Korean police, an unidentified Chinese hacker managed to get hold of 9 million credit records that were sold on for a profit in Korea. The person responsible for stealing these records is known only as Chun, and it seems that he managed to flee to China before the Korean law enforcement agencies had a chance to take him into custody. Another 29-year-old suspect related to this incident has evaded the authorities by going to China. The police did manage to arrest 6 people believed to be accomplices of Chun, but they have been all processed and released.Out of the 9 million records the hacker got hold of, 4.8 million belong t... [read more >>] Is it hard to be a hacker? How do I become a hacker? I want to learn more about hacking! Those are the things that I often hear or see on forums. Somebody asked me the other day if I know how to hack a site and whether it's hard or not. I'm no hacker, I'm just a journalist. However, Petko D. Petkov aka pdp is a world-renowned hacker who in his latest blog post describes how easy it can be for someone with just a bit of skill to hack into military and government sites - .mil and .gov that is.He won't give you the tools or tell you where to get them from, but he does explain how easy it is to exploit certain vulnerabilitie... [read more >>] I wanted to write about this for a long time, since it is pretty important, but I never got the chance to do it; plus, there wasn't enough material to back up my statements… until now. Sophos expert Fraser Howard wrote a great technical paper on "Modern web attacks" that is very inspiring and also explains things really well. In any case, in this article, I'm going to concentrate on explaining the way e-mail borne viruses function.Perhaps you've read a lot of news either written by myself or by my peers in which they would explain how e-mail borne threats work. Most of the times, nobody bothered to detail this too much, journ... [read more >>] | 
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