[ISN] Book excerpt: High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front

2004-07-22 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,94643,00.html [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321218736/c4iorg - WK] Book (Excerpt) by Steven Branigan JULY 20, 2004 COMPUTERWORLD This excerpt is from Chapter 3, If He Had Just Paid the Rent from High-Tech Crimes

[ISN] Prominent database company hacked again

2004-07-22 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9208688.htm July 21, 2004 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A Florida man has been charged with stealing large amounts of consumer information from Acxiom Corp., one of the world's largest database companies. The new indictment comes on the heels of a

[ISN] Internet Extortion Ring Smashed

2004-07-22 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Internet-Extortion-Ring-Smashedstory_id=25965category=ecommerce By Beatrice Arnfield NewsFactor Network July 21, 2004 An extortion and money-laundering ring targeting UK sports-betting Web sites has been smashed by UK and Russian law enforcement

Re: [ISN] Hackers and establishment to mingle at DEFCON

2004-07-22 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Ralf Bendrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17274 (...) DEFCON 12, the oldest continuously running hacker convention, Wrong. The German Chaos Computer Club (established in 1981) has been holding its annual Chaos Communication Congresses for 20 years