According to victims notified by the police, the criminal investigation targeting former News of the World (NotW) employees has been expanded to include computer hacking.The new investigation, called Operation Tuleta, will focus on suspicions that News of the World reporters paid a hacker to infect the computer of fo... |
1 August 2011
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A Malaysian hacker arrested last year admitted to breaking into a Federal Reserve Bank computer installing malicious code on it.Lin Mun Poo, a citizen of Malaysia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to possession of stolen credit card data, an offense that can land him in prison for a maximum of ten years.Poo was arrested o... |
15 April 2011
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The US federal authorities are investigating multiple intrusions into NASDAQ's computer network that occurred last year, but the affected system is not related to the stock market.The intruders' motives remain unclear and so far it only appears they looked around without advancing beyond compromised system.... |
7 February 2011
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A 35-years-old Texas man appeared before a Minneapolis court earlier this week after being charged with hacking into a payment system used by Digital River and stealing around $270,000.According to an indictment filed on October 13, 2010, and unsealed on Tuesday, Jeremey Parker, 35, of Houston, Texas, stole funds tha... |
24 December 2010
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Jesse William McGraw, a security guard at the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas, has been charged with computer intrusion after he took his passion for spy movies to another level – actually making one during his night shifts. The misguided hacker filmed himself installing a botnet client on hospital computers wh... |
3 July 2009
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The reckless actions of a drunk and upset former consultant who worked for Australia's Northern Territory Government ended up costing the taxpayers 1.2 million Australian dollars. The ex-IT staffer deleted more than 10,000 accounts belonging to government employees from critical servers.David Anthony McIntosh re... |
14 March 2009
07:46 GMT |
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