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News for 030900
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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