HACKERS - The cyber criminality is rising with the tide of new computers getting connected to the Internet. Many of the stories intercepted in this category fall under the ‘you wouldn’t believe it’ label.

Amazing but true stories on the search terms ‘hackers’, ‘China hackers’ and ‘Cyber Crime’ are here intercepted chronologically. Headlines and excerpts at your convenience.

HACKERS - headlines daily

Pacemaker users 'need protection from hackers' - Telegraph.co.uk -

Pacemaker users 'need protection from hackers' Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 8 hours ago Hackers could cause heart attacks by targeting people's pacemakers, scientists have warned, as they unveiled an electronic shielding device to protect ... Pacemaker Cloaking Device in Development Hard OCP Scientists design shield to prevent deadly pacemaker hijack Daily Mail Can Your Heart be Hacked? Consumer Affairs all 8 news articles

Hackers unearth more underage gymnast allegations - Sydney Morning Herald -

The Age

Hackers unearth more underage gymnast allegations Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 12 hours ago Hackers have unearthed more compelling evidence that China's dual-gold medal winning gymnast He Kexin is underaged and should have been barred from ... Chinese - Olympic Cheaters? DigitalJournal.com all 33 news articles

Gag order lifted on subway hackers - VNUNet.com -

ABC News

Gag order lifted on subway hackers VNUNet.com, UK - 22 hours ago A US judge has lifted the restraining order on a group of MIT students who hacked payment cards for the Boston subway system. ... Judge Lifts Gag Order On Student Subway Hackers InformationWeek Student Hackers Free to Speak on Security Flaws, Federal Judge Rules Wall Street Journal Blogs Judge backs hackers in Boston subway dispute Reuters CollegeOTR - TECH.BLORGE.com all 214 news articles

Desi hackers get cracking on iPhone - Times of India -

CIOL	Desi hackers get cracking on iPhone Times of India, India - 14 hours ago KOLKATA: Hackers across the country are working overtime to find ways to unlock the SIM cards that will come with Apple’s iPhone once it is launched at the ... India to get 3G iPhone with bugs CIOL all 165 news articles

JustHackIt: It's Like a Dating Site For Hackers - Washington Post -

JustHackIt: It's Like a Dating Site For Hackers Washington Post, United States - 19 hours ago Developers can post projects they want to do and search through postings from other hackers. The idea: Outside of Silicon Valley, lots of hackers are ...

Hackers step up their efforts to exploit DNS flaw - guardian.co.uk -

Hackers step up their efforts to exploit DNS flaw guardian.co.uk, UK - 19 hours ago Hacker HD Moore quickly updated his hacking toolkit, called Metasploit, with code to exploit the DNS flaw. In the nearest thing that the internet gets to ...

Serbian hackers strike back - B92 -

Serbian hackers strike back B92, Serbia - 5 hours ago PRIŠTINA -- The Priština municipality website has been attacked by Serbian hackers in retaliation for recent attacks on Serbian sites. The hackers posted a ...

Hackers' Potential Damage Increases - bMighty.com -

Hackers' Potential Damage Increases bMighty.com, NY - 7 hours ago By Paul Korzeniowski As hackers evolve from irresponsible adolescents to organized crime figures, the danger to your business -- no matter how big or small ...

Hackers too playing games at Olympics - Economic Times -

CXOToday.com

Hackers too playing games at Olympics Economic Times, India - Aug 19, 2008 Internet hackers are trying their best to steal data from your system and corrupt it. Hackers send mails related to Olympic events with interesting subject ... Beware of Hackers During Olympics: Trend Micro ChannelTimes.com (press release) Beware if your mail has an invitation to Beijing Economic Times all 15 news articles

Brazilian hackers make Olympic disappointment known - AFP -

AFP

Brazilian hackers make Olympic disappointment known AFP - Aug 19, 2008 BRASILIA (AFP) — Hackers disappointed with Brazil's paltry medal tally in Olympic Games in China made their displeasure known Tuesday by defacing the ... Hackers deface website The Mercury (subscription) Hackers target Brazil Olympic Committee Web site PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) all 7 news articles

CHINA Hackers - headlines daily

Hackers unearth more underage gymnast allegations - Sydney Morning Herald -

The Age

Hackers unearth more underage gymnast allegations Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - 12 hours ago Hackers have unearthed more compelling evidence that China's dual-gold medal winning gymnast He Kexin is underaged and should have been barred from ... Chinese - Olympic Cheaters? DigitalJournal.com all 33 news articles

China Netcom falls prey to DNS cache poisoning - NetworkWorld.com -

China Netcom falls prey to DNS cache poisoning NetworkWorld.com, MA - 5 hours ago Hackers have tampered with one of China Netcom's DNS servers to only redirect users who type, for example, gogle.cn rather than google.cn. ...

Chinese hackers strike at Tibet protesters - guardian.co.uk -

Chinese hackers strike at Tibet protesters guardian.co.uk, UK - Aug 7, 2008 A bizarre twist to the story of the two British pro-Tibet protesters arrested in China yesterday - as we report this morning, it appears hackers have ... Video: Raw Video: Free Tibet Protest in Beijing AssociatedPress all 2,796 news articles

China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate ten government ... - ZDNet -

China busts hacking ring, managed to penetrate ten government ... ZDNet - Aug 19, 2008 Shanghai Daily is reporting on this sophisticated group of local hackers who were selling “valid” educational certificates by modifying government databases ...

US-China cyberwar a dud, but trouble lingers - Computerworld -

US-China cyberwar a dud, but trouble lingers Computerworld, MA - Aug 15, 2008 A Chinese hacker group, the Honker Union of China, issued a statement to the Chinese portal site Chinabyte earlier this week declaring a truce, ...

Software can bypass China's 'Great Firewall,' but hard to get ... - The Canadian Press -

Software can bypass China's 'Great Firewall,' but hard to get ... The Canadian Press, VANCOUVER - 20 hours ago Fischer says when that happens, programmers and hackers will find ways to adapt, but it's part of a much larger problem that software alone can't fix. ...

Brazilian hackers make Olympic disappointment known - AFP -

AFP

Brazilian hackers make Olympic disappointment known AFP - Aug 19, 2008 BRASILIA (AFP) — Hackers disappointed with Brazil's paltry medal tally in Olympic Games in China made their displeasure known Tuesday by defacing the ... Hackers deface website The Mercury (subscription) Hackers target Brazil Olympic Committee Web site PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) all 7 news articles

Hackers step up their efforts to exploit DNS flaw - guardian.co.uk -

Hackers step up their efforts to exploit DNS flaw guardian.co.uk, UK - 19 hours ago And last week, executives at NeuStar UltraDNS, which manages the worldwide registry gateway for Taiwan and China's top level domains outside of those two ...

How to not get hacked in Chinese surgery - Asia Times Online -

How to not get hacked in Chinese surgery Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Aug 18, 2008 Initially, Xstek and its hired investigating company assumed that doctors or hospitals must have paid a few local hackers to figure out how to modify the ...

Hackers too playing games at Olympics - Economic Times -

CXOToday.com

Hackers too playing games at Olympics Economic Times, India - Aug 19, 2008 Internet hackers are trying their best to steal data from your system and corrupt it. Hackers send mails related to Olympic events with interesting subject ... Beware of Hackers During Olympics: Trend Micro ChannelTimes.com (press release) all 15 news articles

CYBER Crime - headlines daily

Facebook, MySpace users warned of cyber crime risk - ABC Science Online -

Facebook, MySpace users warned of cyber crime risk ABC Science Online, Australia - Aug 20, 2008 Mr Hulls says cyber crime such as identity theft is on the rise. "Facebook users, social networking users need to realise that information and photos they ... Post net pictures at your peril - they may last forever Adelaidenow all 2 news articles

US: tackling 'cyber-crime' - Oxford Analytica (subscription) -

US: tackling 'cyber-crime' Oxford Analytica (subscription), UK - 3 hours ago ... now) for cyber-attack. As states develop genuine online warfare capabilities, it will be increasingly important for states to be properly protected. ...

Q&A With FBI's Cyber Division Chief - Washington Post -

Q&A With FBI's Cyber Division Chief Washington Post, United States - Aug 18, 2008 Q: So what does the director of the FBI's cyber crime division like to do in his spare time? A: Build computers, learn new operating systems. ... 'A Lot of People Just Don't Take the Basic Precautions' Washington Post all 5 news articles

Cyber crime: FG moves against Yahoo boys - Daily Champion -

Cyber crime: FG moves against Yahoo boys Daily Champion, Nigeria - Aug 19, 2008 In his address at the opening of a three-day "first national Conference on Cyber crime and Cyber Security" holding in Abuja, the minister of National ...

How cyber crime went professional - Independent -

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How cyber crime went professional Independent, UK - Aug 12, 2008 By some estimates, organised crime represents up to 20 per cent of the global GDP, and cybercrime is the fastest-growing part of it. ... Video: Kosovo raises Georgian breakaway republics' hopes RussiaToday Comment by Joel Simon Exec. Dir., The Committee to Protect Journalists all 12,084 news articles

Hard disks seized from 3 cyber cafes - Times of India -

Hard disks seized from 3 cyber cafes Times of India, India - 15 hours ago Ahmedabad/Vadodara: Three cyber cafes in Vadodara's old city area were searched by the Ahmedabad Crime Branch and local Special Operation Group (SOG) ...

Chandigarh police get hi-tech gadgets to combat cyber crime - SINDH TODAY -

Chandigarh police get hi-tech gadgets to combat cyber crime SINDH TODAY, Pakistan - Aug 17, 2008 The crime branch and cyber crime cell of the Chandigarh police are now using advanced technology of Cell Dek and portable forensic lab (PFL) machine to ...

Study Gives States Poor Marks on Cyber Crime - InternetNews.com -

Study Gives States Poor Marks on Cyber Crime InternetNews.com - Aug 13, 2008 By Kenneth Corbin: More stories by this author: As cyber crime and e-commerce continue to boom, most states are failing to keep up with the increasingly ... State AGs ignore phishing, spyware ZDNet all 3 news articles

Man held for cyber crime; sells ex as call girl on website - Times of India -

Man held for cyber crime; sells ex as call girl on website Times of India, India - Aug 13, 2008 CHENNAI: The cyber crime cell of the Central Crime Branch picked up a database manager of a private firm for posting a girl's photograph and mobile number ... Cyber crime on rise; public warned on posting pics Times of India all 2 news articles

Pasco teacher arrested in cybercrime sex sting - Computer Crime Research Center -

Pasco teacher arrested in cybercrime sex sting Computer Crime Research Center, Ukraine - Aug 17, 2008 Officials say Cupp was chatting online with 2 different investigators, one with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, and one with the state's Cyber Crime ...