A New Zealand teenager, allegedly at the centre of a cyber crime ring causing millions of dollars of damage, admitted six computer crime charges when he appeared in court today.
Owen Thor Walker, 18, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was accused by the FBI of being “Akill” - leading a group of international programmers that set up […]
To the long list of objects vulnerable to attack by computer hackers, add the human heart.
The threat seems largely theoretical. But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker.
They were able to reprogram it to shut down […]
A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft’s Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box remained standing following the three-day competition.
Shane Macaulay, who […]
Hackers in Indonesia protested a law banning online pornography by posting a picture of a bare chested male model on the Indonesian information ministry’s website.
“Congratulations on the law,” said a message above the picture, which was posted yesterday and taken down 11 hours later, said Sukemi, a spokesman for the Communication and Information Ministry.
Sukemi, who […]