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SEC: Hacker Manipulated Stock Prices
U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking a federal judge to freeze all movement of assets of Broco Investments, believed to be a one-trader operation based in St.
Continue reading »U.S. Pinpoints Coder Behind Google Attack
BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking forum where he described it as something he was “working on,” the paper said, quoting an unidentified researcher working for the U.S.
Continue reading »Everything you wanted to know about Xbox hacking
Cracking gameplay laid bare Analysis Hacking and phishing threats that PC users have suffered for years are now becoming part and parcel of the online gaming experience for users of Microsoft’s Xbox console. …
Continue reading »etc: A convicted hacker has received a record 13-year sentence for stealing almost 2 million credit card numbers.
A convicted hacker has received a record 13-year sentence for stealing almost 2 million credit card numbers. Read More: Threat Level
Continue reading »Web Censor Seeks $2.2 Billion for China Hack
A California web-filtering company says it is the victim of “one of the largest cases of software piracy in history.” Lawyers for adult- and violent-content web-filtering company Cybersitter claim in a federal lawsuit that the Chinese government purloined some 3,000 lines of its code from its servers as part of software for a national censorship project –- in which several international computer makers are accused of knowingly distributing throughout China. “They are heavy allegations. Three thousand lines of code, approximately, were stolen.
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