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Teenager pleads guilty to botnet, 'swatting' charges

2008-11-20 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A Boston-area teenager has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and placing fake emergency phone calls in hopes of summoning police tactical response teams to the homes of his victims
 
Tags: guilty, charges, boston-area teenager, victims, homes, hopes
 
 
 
 
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Teenager pleads guilty to botnet, 'swatting' charges

2008-11-19 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A Boston-area teenager has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and placing fake emergency phone calls in hopes of summoning police tactical response teams to the homes of his victims
 
Tags: guilty, charges, boston-area teenager, victims, homes, hopes
 
 
 
 
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Killing spree at Omaha mall

2007-12-08 18:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...teenager,albeit heinous in nature,is a "once off" type of incident and hopefully will never re-occur - at least not at that particular location One thing that does strike me however, is the importance for mall security to be ever vigilant and proactive in spotting danger as early as possible and endeavouring to "nip it in the bud". After the...
 
Tags: mall, post security officers, security officers, nebraska mall killings, officers, mall security, past week, robert hawkins, past
 
 
 
 
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Best practices for avoiding the trap

2008-07-12 16:31:48 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...teenager to the Board room executive, awareness rules. Youve probably already heard the mantra: Dont open emails from unknown or unsolicited sources. And when you receive an email from an unknown source, dont let down your guard; cyber criminals use email addresses in your email address book as one social engineering technique. A teenager...
 
Tags: email, email addresses, email address book, social, executive receives, unknown source, executive, unknown, trap
 
 
 
 
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Teen pushed adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs

2008-02-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b196a0 in Network World on Security
 
A teenager identified by U.S. law enforcement officials only as B.D.H pleaded guilty this week to charges that he used botnets to illegally install adware on hundreds of thousands of computers in the U.S., including those belonging to the military
 
Tags: law enforcement officials, thousands, hundreds, install adware, military, week, teenager, charges, computers
 
 
 
 
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Unencrypted/Unauthenticated Wireless Control Systems Are a Very Bad Idea

2008-01-11 20:33:14 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
A Polish teenager derailed a tram after building his own remote control to hack the control system. Best quote Transport command and control systems are commonly designed by engineers with little exposure or knowledge about security using commodity electronics and a little native wit
 
Tags: control systems, control system, remote control, polish teenager, transport command, native wit, commodity electronics, knowledge, exposure
 
 
 
 
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Got Sopranos? Yet another thing I did not know as much about

2007-11-26 20:55:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...teenager bored of playing video games and looking for some real kicks. Well, there are some of those no doubt, but it seems that hacking has become the new organized crime. It may not be as widely known as drug cartels or the arms dealers, but information is becoming the new dust Credit card numbers, card swipe data, etc., are selling for a...
 
Tags: cardholder data, crime business, crime, card swipe data, recent trip, visa gold, breaches, nefarious goals, arms dealers
 
 
 
 
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Teen Involved in MySpace Suicide Hoax Says Adult Also Participated

2008-04-01 19:15:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Despite denials, 47-year-old Lori Drew actively participated in the MySpace hoax that led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier, according to a teenager who admits her own role in the tragedy
 
Tags: 13-year-old megan meier, myspace hoax, 47-year-old lori, suicide, tragedy, led, teenager, actively, denials
 
 
 
 
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16-Year Old Indian Hacker Says College Useless

2008-06-17 11:10:42 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...teenager picked up from Mulund in Mumbai, involved in an online payment scam on eBay. Three other persons who were arrested in Ahmedabad for their involvement in the scam are in police custody Now, when I was a kid, I learned that education was the road to making money. If I was a good student and got through college, I could get a good job,...
 
Tags: college, online payment scam, useless alternative, scam, credit card information, ebay, live lavishly, 16-year, fine haircut
 
 
 
 
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China Quake Hacker Caught

2008-06-19 10:59:41 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...teenager, identified only by his surname Chen, altered the Web site of the Guangxi Seismological Bureau to warn residents in southwestern China to prepare for an impending earthquake expected to measure 9.0 on the Richter scale, according to a report on China Central Televisions Web site Such a posting could have