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Former Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Reportedly Signs Plea
Michelle Dean · 04/03/14 03:30PMWired is reporting that the activist/journalist Barrett Brown has signed a plea agreement. They have pieced together that conclusion from a motion to seal the plea they say is on the docket (I admittedly don't see that yet myself) and from the fact that earlier this week the federal government filed a new superseding indictment that lessens the charges pending against Brown. To layer on the irony in this controversial First Amendment-involving case, Wired's Kim Zetter couldn't confirm with Brown's lawyers directly, because the lawyers and Brown himself are under a gag order.
The Real Aaron Swartz "Inside Story": The Feds' Terrifying Aggression
Michelle Dean · 03/31/14 12:00PMThe World's Most Infamous "Hacker" Has His Appeal Hearing Today
Michelle Dean · 03/19/14 11:05AMToday in Philadelphia, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer's appeal of his 2012 conviction under the much-maligned Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Auernheimer is currently serving a 41-month term in prison for what the government says was "unauthorized access" of AT&T's servers in 2010.
CNN Got Hacked
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/23/14 09:58PMSimple Malware Written By Russian Teen Behind Target's Security Breach
Jordan Sargent · 01/18/14 02:22PMHackers Play “Every Breath You Take” Through Camera, Freak Out Owner
Taylor Berman · 01/13/14 12:19PMThis is a good reason to make sure your web camera is secure. Someone hacked into a worker's unsecured IP camera and played the Police's "Every Breath You Take" though its speakers. Sample lyrics: "I'll be watching you."
There Might Have Been More Than One Lulzsec FBI Mole
Sarah Hedgecock · 01/10/14 02:50PMHere's Some New Hacked Presidential Art From The Clinton White House
Gabrielle Bluestone · 12/04/13 08:03PMWho Did 'The Creepiest Television Hack' of All Time?
Adrian Chen · 12/04/13 01:05PMThe Max Headroom signal intrusion hack is one of those hacker legends that seems too good to be true: In 1987, an unknown group hacked into the signal of local Chicago TV channel WGN-TV. 25 years later, Vice's Motherboard blog has published a fascinating investigation into who pulled off the still unsolved crime.
U.K. Man Arrested for Allegedly Hacking U.S. Defense Networks
Taylor Berman · 10/28/13 02:49PMA British hacker has been arrested on charges that he illegally accessed U.S. government computer networks, including the Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Army, in order to steal the personal data of government employees. “You have no idea how much we can fuck with the U.S. government if we wanted to,” Lauri Love, the accused hacker, told a co-conspirator in a chat room, according to court documents.
NSA Paid French Hackers for Software Exploits
Adrian Chen · 09/18/13 10:41AMA University Food-Services Site Was Hacked on Behalf of Hungry Juggalos
Camille Dodero · 08/28/13 02:10PMSyrian Electronic Army Hacks New York Times, Twitter
Adrian Chen · 08/27/13 03:41PMThe New York Times is experiencing outages today, and it's looking like the anonymous hacktivists of the Syrian Electronic Army are responsible. Our own Sam Biddle just took the screenshot above when he visited a few minutes ago. And Computer security expert Matt Johansen, manager for the Threat Research Center at WhiteHat Security, noticed that during the outage that the New York Times' website briefly pointed to a Syrian Electronic Army domain.
Creep Hacks Baby Monitor, Calls 2-Year-Old Girl a 'Little Slut'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/13/13 04:10PMDark Net Busted Wide Open After Child Porn Arrest
Adrian Chen · 08/05/13 02:46PMThe Tor Network is a vibrant shadow web used by people who want to hide their tracks online. But even this so-called "dark net" has vulnerabilities. This weekend, the dark net was rocked when its biggest hosting company was shut down, the alleged founder arrested on child porn charges, and the identities of many users who believed they were anonymous apparently harvested by authorities.
Max Read · 07/25/13 10:42AM
Imprisoned Troll Weev Fights For “Freedom to Surf The Web”
Adrian Chen · 07/02/13 02:53PMInternet troll Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer currently sits in federal prison for using publicly accessible information on a public website to piss off the giant corporation that published the information. This is an injustice. But in a promising move, a legal team including one of the most respected cyberlaw experts in the country has just filed an appeal.
Here Is the Archive of the Famous Liberal Media 'Journolist'
Hamilton Nolan · 06/21/13 09:13AMWay back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of "Journolist," a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal! Andrew Breitbart offered $100,000 for the full archives. Well, we got (some of) them. Here they are.