ilamont/hacking

From the page: "Brad Willman was installing networking equipment out of an emergency van in British Columbia when a policeman showed up and asked for him. Willman knew the officer from a case he was involved with a couple of years earlier, so he didn't worry -- until he arrived at the police station and was introduced to a couple of U.S. cops.

The visit marked the end of Willman's version of vigilante justice."

From the page: "Ivory D. Dickerson, 33, a civil engineer, admitted that he conspired with the other person to send e-mails or instant messages to underage girls as part of a scheme to trick them into opening a file containing the Bifrost Trojan horse. The malware would then give Dickerson and his co-conspirator control over the victim's computer, and they would try to use hacked information to coerce the girls into creating and then electronically sending them lurid photos of themselves, prosecutors said. "

From the page: "He told Jackson that the operation was run by just two people, known as 76 and Exoric. 76 was in Russia. Exoric seemed to be based out Mexico."

From the page: "Nathan McFeters, one of the researchers who has been studying the problem most closely, said he hopes to present more details on how other Unix-based operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X may also be susceptible to what are known as URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) protocol-handler flaws at the ToorCon hacking conference being held this week in San Diego."

From the page: "More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.

The details were included in a paper published in the September issue of Uninformed.org, an online hacking magazine. The lengthy paper describes how to run unauthorized software on a Macintosh by taking advantage of a flaw in Apple's AirPort wireless drivers."

From the page: "touched the keyboard. Voila! The desktop appeared. There was no password-protected screensaver or acceptable use notice or warning screen with an authentication prompt."

From the page: "Max Ray Butler, 35 of San Francisco, a.k.a Max Vision, and also known by his online nicknames of Iceman, Digits and Aphex, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of transferring stolen identity information. Arrested last week in California, where he remains, Butler could face up to 40 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine if he is convicted on all five counts."

From the page: "Here's one more example of your tax dollars at work. Multiple government web sites-- including one responsible for the safety of the U.S. nuclear arsenal -- have been turned into spyware-ridden porn-purveyors by hackers. Visiting them is dangerous to your PC, not to mention your moral fiber."