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LulzSec hacker recursion convicted in the US  22 April 2013 
Source: H Security - Posted by Alex   
US based Lulzsec hacker Cody Andrew Kretsinger, who is also known by his online handle "recursion", was sentenced to a day and a year in prison on Thursday in a district court in Los Angeles.
 
Ex-hacker Mudge is "getting the band back together" at Google  18 April 2013 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Former hacker Peiter "Mudge" Zatko has been working for the US government for several years, but he now says he is "getting the band back together", presumably at his new employer Google. Mudge, who, among other things, developed the hacking tool L0phtCrack (used to crack Windows passwords), had recently been working for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) which is part of the Department of Defense.
 
Hacker celeb 'Mudge' joins Google after DARPA  16 April 2013 
Source: CNET - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who was hired three years ago to be a project manager at the U.S. Department of Defense's research and development division known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has announced via Twitter that he's returning to the private sector with Google.
 
Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA for Google Job  15 April 2013 
Source: All Things D - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Peter Zatko, the computer hacking expert better known by the handle Mudge, says he’s leaving his job as a program manager at DARPA to join Google. He announced the change overnight on Twitter.
 
Bitcoin hacker hunted  12 April 2013 
Source: SC MagazIne - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A Canadian high school student has been identified as the most likely suspect behind a phishing site that allegedly ripped off thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins from unsuspecting users.
 
IBM: DDoS, web exploits, hacker sophistication on the rise, but mobile security looking good  11 April 2013 
Source: InfoSecurity Magazine - Posted by Alex   
Web application exploits are on the rise, as are distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, while spam bots and hackers’ spear-phishing tactics are getting more sophisticated.
 
LulzSec: UK-based hackers plead guilty  10 April 2013 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Three members of the LulzSec hacker group have pleaded guilty at a UK court. They confessed to having planned and carried out attacks on third-party web sites together. Among their targets were various law enforcement agencies including the CIA and the UK's SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency).
 
More secret email searches revealed at Harvard  04 April 2013 
Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell   
A dean at Harvard University who led a probe into leaked information in a cheating scandal admitted Tuesday that she failed to report two secret searches of a fellow dean's email accounts.
 
Anonymized Phone Location Data Not So Anonymous, Researchers Find  28 March 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Anonymized mobile phone location data produces a GPS fingerprint that can be easily used to identify a user based on little more than tracking the pings a phone makes to cell towers, a new study shows.
 
Twitter co-founder: Hacking not necessarily a crime  22 March 2013 
Source: Salon - Posted by Dave Wreski   
TechCrunch reported Thursday on an interchange between Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Lara Logan in which the former boy hacker delineates the difference between “criminal hacking” and the sort of activity that has fallen under “criminal” designations owing to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
 
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