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Man charged with NASA hack, on 10th anniversary of Gary McKinnon’s arrest

Feb

2012

In December 2010, computers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles were allegedly hacked. With researchers unable to use the computers for two months, NASA estimated the damage caused to be in the region of $580,000. Not to be sniffed at. It was with some surprise then, to hear last month that 26-year-old Robert […]

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British Student Attempts to Hack Facebook

Aug

2011

In the world of hackers, there’s much ‘honor’ to be had in hacking big institutions such as the pentagon, CIA and big companies such as Microsoft and Apple. Facebook, of course, is fair game and has, in fact, attracted its fair share of would be attackers, the newest one being Glenn Steven Mangham, a 25-year […]

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White House to double jail time for hackers?

Jun

2011

The Obama administration seems intent on pushing for stiffer sentences for hackers caught endangering national security to 20 years prison time, doubling the current sentence. A stiff penalty, to be sure, the latest in a series of volleys from D.C. to curb the flurry of recent high-profile attacks and restore confidence in the U.S. Government’s […]

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