A Norwegian hacking gang is said to have broken into two email accounts belonging to Anders Breivik Behring, the right-wing extremist who killed over 70 people in the country last month.
The gang, who call themselves Noria, is said to be led by a 17 year old youth and is reported to have handed all the information they acquired from Behring's email accounts to freelance journalist.
Not all hackers are united. That could not be more evident based on the latest hacking attempt, this time on Anonymous rather than by its own members.
Of course, Anonymous did do something to incite the attack. The worldwide network recently took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defence website, which prompted some loyal citizens and hackers to strike back. They did so by posting the following message with some disturbing photographs on Anonymous' social network, AnonPlus.
Hackers start young and their parents couldn't be prouder about their children following in their footsteps.
Defcon, an annual hacker convention, held its first-ever program for children, aged 8 to 16, who listened to presentations about hacking, solving puzzles and laws while sitting at long conference tables, with some feet barely touching the ground.
A 10-year-old hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi revealed today at DefCon 19 a zero-day exploit in games on iOS and Android devices that independent researchers have confirmed as a new class of vulnerability. The girl from California first discovered the flaw around January 2011 because she "started to get bored" with the pace of farm-style games.
Geography used to matter in crime.
In the real world, you only have to worry about the criminals who live in your city. But in the online world, you have to worry about criminals who could be on the other side of the planet. Online crime is always international because the Internet has no borders.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has found a novel way of raising badly needed cash, according to the South Korean authorities: unleashing young hackers on South Korea’s immensely popular online gaming sites to find ways to rack up points convertible to cash.
Despite its decrepit economy, North Korea is believed to train an army of computer programmers and hackers. The police in Seoul said Thursday that four South Koreans and a Korean-Chinese had been arrested on charges of drawing on that army to organize a hacking squad of 30 young video gaming experts.
More than 30 North Korean hackers were hired to work in China by a South Korean crime ring to steal the personal data of South Korean gamers, and channeled $5 million to their impoverished country in compensation, South Korea's police said on Thursday.
North Korea has been blamed for spreading malicious computer software that paralyzed websites of government agencies and businesses, and for a cyber attack on a South Korean bank this year that brought down its network.
Calling all independent security researchers: The government wants to fund your work.
As part of a new initiative, called Cyber Fast Track, described Thursday at the Black Hat confernce in Las Vegas, the U.S. Defense Department will fund small hacker groups and independent researchers in the development of cutting-edge solutions that can be created in short intervals for a low cost.
t is a rare moment when hackers are arrested; nevertheless, the Nintendo hacker was caught and arrested by Spanish Police in Malaga on Valentine's Day. Authorities have not revealed his name, but they said he had been hacking the Spanish Nintendo Ibérica database since Feb. 6 to steal user information with the purpose of blackmailing Nintendo Spain.
A teen who stole images from the online accounts of actress Miley Cyrus before apparently leaving a hard-to-miss chain of evidence that led police to his house, has pleaded guilty to a separate charge of credit card fraud.
Joshua Holly, now 21, has admitted possession of 200 stolen credit card numbers and to having hijacked 20 celebrity online accounts between 2005 and 2008 to aid in spam marketing that made him at least $110,000.
