I’ve been seeing this headline pop up all over the place the last few days: Hackers Declaring War On MySpace, Facebook? My question is: who are these hackers? Is there a central organisation of hackers that have decided to declare this war? Should Facebook and MySpace fight back? The best defense, after all, is a good offense. (SC Magazine) “If the hackers know you have a particular interest, this can be used to target you in a...

Howdy.  My power’s out at my house, so I’m just sitting around the office waiting for sleep to overtake me.  I would sleep at my house, but I can’t see at all to walk the long corridor to my door, nor can I clean off my bed properly in the dark.  Call me short-bus, I just found it easier to get back in the car and drive to the office.  The hurricane seems to be over, for the most part.  I turned the...

There have been a number of hackers in the news over the hurricane/holiday weekend.  I haven’t really been staying on top of this with all the hurricane coverage (as well as the ongoing debate between DJ Colonoscopy and myself), but here’s what I’ve found recently: Teen Hacker Controls EbayBy Nick Farrell: Tuesday 07 September 2004, 12:30GERMAN POLICE HAVE arrested a 19 year-old hacker who claims he managed to control the...

By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News A coordinated attack against the Internet, dubbed an “electronic jihad,” may be as close as tomorrow, one security firm warned Wednesday. Other experts, however, were dubious. According to a report on the Russian news service RIA Novosti, Eugene Kaspersky of the Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs has warned about a large-scale attack that might be delivered by Islamic terrorists. Kaspersky and other security...

p2pnet.net News:- A large international network of hackers who stole computer programmes, films and music and then sold them on the black market has been broken up by Polish police. Police in Gorzow Wielkopolski, western Poland, smashed a ring involving more than 100 people and active in Poland, the US, Australia, Britain and Slovakia, police spokeswoman Agata Salatka told Agence France-Presse. Five Polish computer programmers thought to be the...