Moscow has accused Washington of unlawfully extraditing a Russian national from Switzerland, the Russian foreign ministry spokesman said.
Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday that Russian national Vladimir Zdorovenin, accused of financial cyber crimes, faces up to 142 years in prison in the US, where he was extradited from Switzerland earlier this week.
Matthew Prince is a restless guy. After earning a law degree and starting a company to track spammers, he enrolled in Harvard Business School in 2007. During the winter of his second year, he found himself on a class trip to Silicon Valley, listening to a presentation from a not-very-smart-sounding entrepreneur. A classmate, Michelle Zatlyn, turned to him. “If this guy can get funding, so can we,” she told him.
Randomdata is a Hackerspace in Utrecht, The Netherlands, that is holding a DIY Amateur Radio license course.
The group say "We have decided to skip the 27 MHz band and head straight to the 'real' amateur radio stuff. After we have passed our exams, it's to discuss hardware! We have to build radios, antennas, packet modems etc. So a lot of tinkering to do!".
January's GQ has a fascinating piece on a fellow who turned up in our crime coverage the past couple years: Luis Mijangos, the so-called "sextortion" hacker out of Santa Ana sentenced Sept. 1 to six years in prison for cyber-terrorism.
The 32-year-old undocumented immigrant hacked into dozens of computers to obtain personal data--and in some cases demanded sexually explicit videos from females lest he email their boyfriends the lie that the women willingly sent him risque images he actually obtained on the sly.
Internet hackers used local computer systems in attacks on Israeli corporate websites, according to the chief executive officer of network-security vendor Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
“About half of the attacking systems were from Israel,” Gil Shwed said at a press conference in Tel Aviv. This was possible through the use of malicious bot software, which is planted on a computer and then activated, he said.
Trend Micro says 2011 may have been the year of the hacker.
The company at least called 2011 "The Year of Data Breaches" after large, well-known companies had their reputations tarnished after concerted data breach attacks caused "significant collateral damage."
Israeli hackers have claimed credit for downing websites run by the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX).
The digital operation was apparently conducted in retaliation for the hacking of two prominent Israeli sites on Monday: the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and El Al (Israel Airlines).
Symantec today backed away from earlier statements regarding the theft of source code of some of its flagship security products, now admitting that its own network was compromised.
In a statement provided to the Reuters news service, the security software giant acknowledged that hackers had broken into its network when they stole source code of some of the company's software.
The National Intelligence Agency has launched a high-level probe after a cybercrime syndicate stole R42 million from SA Post Office financial institution Postbank over the New Year holidays, the Sunday Times reported.
The theft occurred between January 1 and January 3, and was allegedly committed by a syndicate with knowledge of the post office's information technology (IT) system.
The Palestinian Hamas movement called for an escalation of Internet hacking against Israel, saluting Arab programmers who have managed to infiltrate Israeli computer systems.
“Penetrating Israeli websites means opening a new field of resistance and the beginning of an electronic war against Israeli occupation,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said today in a statement e-mailed to reporters in the Gaza Strip.
