Testimony by Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., Coordinator for Counterterrorism, before the House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, DC, March 5, 1996. Mr. …
Ethical Hacker Faces War Driving Charges
A Houston computer security analyst has been charged with hacking after demonstrating the insecurity of a county courts wireless LAN. Stefan Puffer, 33, was indicted by a Grand Jury on Wednesday with …
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Fluffy Bunny No Longer Energized
At the height of its game last year, a loose-knit hacking group calling itself Fluffy Bunny appeared able to break into websites at will. For a six-month period starting in mid-2001, Fluffy Bunny …
Hackers to corporate America: You`re lazy
When a group of Web vandals hacked into the Web site of USA Today on July 11 and inserted fraudulent news stories, the Internet security community got a taste of just how serious Web page defacements …
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TRC Bookstores Recommends – Cybershock
Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption by Winn Schwartau is an enlightening look at the dangers of the Internet from a consumer/ …
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Man Caught With $12M in Phony Checks after terror investigation
A man carrying $12 million in phony cashier`s checks was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and is being investigated by a terrorism task force, federal authorities said. Omar Shishani, 47, was …
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Notorious Net thief pleads guilty
Jay Nelson, the man hundreds of Internet auction users learned to hate last year, pleaded guilty Monday to several counts of wire and mail fraud. Nelson, once calling “the Internet’s John Dillinger,” …
Internet Users Wary of Cyber Criminals
Of the 2846 Queenslanders surveyed by AC Nielsen for the Australasian Centre for Policing Research, Internet-based crime was a concern for 1356 and credit card fraud worried 1723. By comparison, 1221 …
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Police Identify Online Account Hacker
POLICE have identified a 30-year-old foreign national as the culprit behind the unauthorised transfer of money from 21 DBS and POSB online accounts. It is believed that the Chinese national has …
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USDoS Terrorist Group Profile – Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Islamic sect that seeks to purify Islam through violence. Led by Pakistani cleric Shaykh Mubarik Ali Gilani, who established the organization in the early 1980s. Gilani now resides in Pakistan, but …
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