"The would be bank robbers had placed "advanced technical equipment" under the employee's desk that allowed them to take control of his computer remotely, prosecutor Thomas Balter Nordenman said in a statement. The employee discovered the device shortly after he realized his computer had started an operation to transfer "millions" from the bank into another…

"Six Czechs were charged Wednesday over an incident in June 2007 when a TV channel was hacked into, transforming scenes of a mountain beauty spot into a nuclear mushroom cloud, Czech TV reported. The six, all from the capital Prague, were charged with propagating false information and scaremongering after the stunt and could face jail…

"Most recently, Facebook has chased down three hackers who attempted to break into its site to access personal information back in June, according to InformationWeek. Although Facebook filed charges immediately following the attacks, up until now all the defendants have been John Does. The company managed to unmask three of them by taking a list…

According to the Squirrelmail website some of the packages available for download on their site had been modified by an outside intruder. If you are running 1.4.11 or 1.4.12 you are urged to upgrade immediately. From their site "Due to the package compromise of 1.4.11, and 1.4.12, we are forced to release 1.4.13 to ensure…

"Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook's site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. The company first filed suit back in June, but…

"Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the U.S.' most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. In what a spokesperson for the Oak Ridge facility described as a "sophisticated cyber attack," it appears that intruders accessed a…

" Britain's domestic intelligence agency is warning that cybercrime perpetrated by China is on the rise following hacking attacks against Rolls-Royce and Royal Dutch Shell. The agency, known as MI5, recently sent letters to some 300 banks, accounting and legal firms warning that "state organizations" of China were plying their networks for information, according to…

"Italian authorities are holding the founder of WabiSabiLabi, an eBay-like online marketplace for buying and selling zero-day vulnerabilities. However, the arrest of Roberto Preatoni, reportedly on charges related to a well publicized Italian spying scandal, has not affected the organization's day-to-day operations, according to a statement released by the Switzerland-based group. WabiSabiLabi confirmed in the…

"It's the stuff of movies such as War Games but two California men accused of hacking into a University database system to change their grades face up to 20 years imprisonment. John Escalera, 29, and Gustavo Razo, 28, are charged (PDF) with conspiring together to increase their marks by manipulating California State University at Fresno's…

"SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple, but found they were only a part of a false emergency call caused by a teenager who hacked into the county’s emergency response system, authorities said. As officers swarmed the…

Not that this is surprising but it appears rather then defacing sites outright attackers are now starting to target sites with adsense on them and replacing the codes in order to steal earnings. For those of you unfamiliar with adsense you stick a piece of javascript on your site with your code so if someone…

"Instead of jamming radar signals, Suter uses a more sophisticated approach of "hacking" into enemy defences. "The technology allows users to invade communications networks, see what enemy sensors see, and even take over as systems administrator so sensors can be manipulated into positions so that approaching aircraft can't be seen," Aviation Week explains. "The process…

"A hacked county website in California that redirected users to a pornographic site triggered the federal government late Tuesday to initiate a system-wide shutdown of all government sites in the Golden State. The process was never completed, after state officials urged the feds to reverse their decision to take offline all state websites bearing the…