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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
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I was a teenage zombie masterA young hacker accused of helping to corral more than 400,000 computers into a money-making botnet has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with the scheme, which he admits damaged US military computers.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 293 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/12/bot_herder_cops_plea/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register12th February 2008A young hacker accused of helping to corral more than 400,000 computers into a money-making botnet has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in connection with the scheme, which he admits damaged US military computers.The defendant was identified only by the the initials B.D.H. because he was a juvenile when the crimes were committed. He is better known by the handle "SoBe" in int read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 273 days ago
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Sorry, we thought you were usA website promoting the town of Mildenhall has been shut down because it unintentionally became the recipient of hundreds of classified emails, including messages detailing the planned flight path of President Bush.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 272 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/mildenhall_website/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register3rd March 2008A website promoting the town of Mildenhall has been shut down after it unintentionally became the recipient of hundreds of classified emails, including messages detailing the planned flight path of President Bush.Over more than a decade, www.mildenhall.com received emails detailing all kinds of secret military information that were intended for official Air Force personnel. One detailed where read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 269 days ago
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http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=39466By Bob BrewinGovexec.comMarch 6, 2008The United States is in the midst of a cyberwar and is not prepared to deal with it, top Defense Department and intelligence officials acknowledged this week."Cyberwarfare is already here.... It's one of our major challenges," said Defense Deputy Secretary Gordon England on Monday at the annual National Community Service and Legislative Conference of the Veterans of Foreign Wars."I think cyberattacks ar read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 213 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: botnet attacks military systems comments Discuss  
Security researchers have discovered a complex spamming scheme that hijacks users' PCs in order to attempt to send junk mail via university and military systems. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 212 days ago
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A former U.S. military contractor has pleaded guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer and aggravated identity theft after he was accused of selling names and Social Security numbers of 17,000 military employees, the U.S. Department of Justice said. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 210 days ago
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=12148By Matthew BroersmaTechworld02 May 2008Security researchers have discovered a complex spamming scheme that hijacks users' PCs in order to attempt to send junk mail via university and military systems.Researchers at Romania-based BitDefender said the scheme, based on a backdoor called Edunet, was one of the most complicated and mysterious they've come across."It's not every day that you stumble on the workings of an honest-to-God hacking ring read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 205 days ago
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/technology/09cisco.htmlBy JOHN MARKOFFThe New York TimesMay 9, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — Counterfeit products are a routine threat for the electronics industry. However, the more sinister specter of an electronic Trojan horse, lurking in the circuitry of a computer or a network router and allowing attackers clandestine access or control, was raised again recently by the F.B.I. and the Pentagon.The new law enforcement and national security concerns were prompted by Operation Cisc read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 202 days ago
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/air-force-col-w.htmlBy Kevin Poulsen Threat LevelWired.comMay 12, 2008While most government agencies are struggling to keep their computers out of the latest Russian botnets, Col. Charles W. Williamson III is proposing that the Air Force build its own zombie network, so it can launch distributed denial of service attacks on foreign enemies.In the most lunatic idea to come out of the military since the gay bomb, Williamson writes in the Armed Force Journal that the A read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 201 days ago
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Forwarded from: Jason Coombs <jasonc (at) science.org>Kevin Poulsen fails to comprehend the nuances of certain modes of software vulnerability exploitation, which sometimes require a vulnerable host to be pressed into the chore of servicing a heavy load in order to cause the code which contains the targeted vulnerability ever to be executed in the first place.Or the fact that launching a denial of service attack can be used merely to trick human users into opening certain URLs in their vulnerable web read more »
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