Former IT Manager Sentenced to One Year in Prison For Hacking Former Employer
A California man has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer system and giving spammers access to the mail server.
Cyber threats in 2009
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) released its “Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009″, which reported on the top five information security threats for the coming year.
Spammer Hiding Techniques
Escaping: This technique uses legal URL formatting to hide the address. Escaping encodes the URL with a percent sign followed by a hexidecimal code. An escaped URL can look like “http://%2E%2E%2E%48%20%18%32%2F%48…”. You can easily decode this by copying it into the location bar of your browser and hitting return.
FBI Ran a Forum for Phishers, Spammers and Hackers.
While criminals thought it was based in Eastern Europe, the Internet’s top English-speaking cybercrime forum was secretly run by the FBI from this building on the banks of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. Photo: John Monroe Butler/ Wired.com
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