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  Coolio Charged with Web Defacements

contributed by Weld Pond
Coolio (Dennis Moran) has been charged by New Hampshire officials with two counts of unauthorized access to a computer system, for defacing the web pages of dare.org. Dare.org is a anti-drug web site set up by the Los Angeles Police Department. If convicted Coolio could receive 15 years in prison and a $4,000 fine for each count. Coolio has also admitted to defacing a site run by the U.S. Commerce Department, and a site operated by RSA Security Inc. The investigations into those defacements is ongoing. Coolio is not considered a suspect in the recent DDoS attacks.

Digital Mass
Attrition.org - Mirrors of Coolio Defacements


  Grades Altered At MIT By Student

contributed by Weld Pond
Twenty-two students of a biology class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had their grades altered by an electronic intruder. Twenty of the students where given lower grades while two received higher ones. An internal MIT investigation has revealed that the culprit did not attend the class but did not say if the person was a student at the school or not. MIT representatives also said that they are unsure of the intruder's means of access but are continuing to investigate.

Boston Globe


  Lloyd's Defacer Arrested and Released

contributed by Simple Nomad and Lady Sharrow
An unidentified man has been arrested and released on bail for defacing the web sites of Lloyds' of London and Railtrack earlier this year. He has been charged under sections one and three of the Computer Misuse Act regarding unauthorized access and the modification of computer systems. He was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit.

The Register UK


  Cross Green Market Raided

contributed by Apocalyse Dow
30 police officers and 19 industry investigators raided Cross Green Market in Leeds England and seized over Ł500,000 of pirated software. The software included office applications, games and DVDs. Investigators from the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS), Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony where involved in the raid.

Silicon.com - If Anyone has a better link please submit it. This lame site won't let you link directly to the story.


  AT+T Sends Private Info of Cell Surfers

contributed by Simple Nomad
AT+T has confirmed that it sends the private phone number of its cell phone subscribers along with each web page request when those users are surfing via their cell phone. Yesterday HNN mentioned that SprintPCS did this as well, they have since said that they intend to change their policy of transmitting customers' phone numbers to Web sites.

San Francisco Chronicle



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