From the Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department indicted five Chinese military officers, alleging they hacked U.S. companies’ computers to steal trade secrets, a major escalation in the fight between the two superpowers over economic espionage. The indictment, unsealed Monday, marks the first time the U.S. government has publicly accused employees of a foreign power […]
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Palin E-mail Hacker Gets One-year Sentence
David Kernell the 20 year old college student who was convicted of breaking into Sarah Palin’s private e-mail account during the 2008 Presidential campaign has been sentenced to one year in prison: The former college student who guessed his way into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account during the 2008 U.S. presidential election was sentenced to […]
Palin E-mail Hacker Convicted on Two Counts
A federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee convicted David Kernell, the 22 year old son of Democratic State Representative, on two of four counts related to the intrusion into former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal Yahoo! Mail account during the 2008 elections today: (Reuters) – A college student who hacked into former Republican vice […]
Palin E-mail Hacker Hit With Additional Charges
David Kernell, the son of a Democratic Tennessee legislator, who was indicted for hacking into Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account during the last year’s Presidential campaign has been hit with additional charges. The new charges are fraud, unlawful electronic transmission of material outside Tennessee and attempts to conceal records to impede an FBI investigation. […]
Microsoft Patches Critical IE Bug
Microsoft has released a special out of cycle update for its Internet Explorer web browser. The update, described in Microsoft’s security bulletin MS08-078, fixes a flaw present in all available versions of the popular browser, including IE5.01, IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 2. Computerworld has more on the story here. On a related note Mozilla […]
AP: Bad Economy Helping Internet Scammers Recruit ‘Mules’
From the Associated Press via Examiner.com: Bad economy helping Web scammers recruit ‘mules’ By Jordan Robertson, The Associated Press, December 9, 2008 SAN JOSE, Calif. – The worsening economy appears to be helping computer crooks with one of their toughest tasks: tricking people into opening their homes and bank accounts and becoming “mules” for laundering […]
Julie Amero’s Four Year Nightmare is Finally Over
Alex Eckelberry has the details. After 4 years and 2 months, Julie Amero is now free. You’ll recall that Julie Amero was convicted of 4 felony counts, each count carrying a maximum of 10 years, for exposing school children to pornography. The reality is that Julie, a 40–year old, pregnant substitute teacher, found herself in […]
Oh Happy Day
A few weeks ago I published a short post on the demise of Atrivo (aka Intercage). Today Washington Post technology columnist Brian Krebs brings word that McColo Corp., a Northern California hosting firm that had been identified by the computer security community as home base for machines responsible for coordinating the sending of roughly 75 percent […]
Newsflash: Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted
Fox News is reporting that 20-year-old David Kernell of Knoxville, Tenn., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the private e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Kernell is the son of Tenn. democratic state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, he turned himself in to federal authorities […]
Sarah Palin & Barack Obama: Tops In Spam
Secure Computing released a new report on spam trends Friday, among the reports findings, spam citing Gov. Sarah Palin topped her opponent, Sen. Joe Biden, by a ratio of 5 to 4 during the month of September. In a top-of-the-ticket comparison, spam using the name of Sen. Barack Obama easily topped the use of his […]
Atrivo/Intercage Down For The Count?
Being in the technology business this is something near and dear to my heart… It appears that Atrivo, also know as Intercage is finally down for the count. Gadi Evron has a post here. Brian Krebs has backgound here.
Sarah Palin’s Private E-mail Account Hacked – Updated
Scroll For Updates… Network World and Wired are reporting that Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo mail account has been hacked and that screenshots of messages have been posted on various web sites. From Wired: Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday. The internet […]