A former technical services manager for a US community health care organisation faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted of hacking into his former organisation’s computers and sabotaging patient data. Jon Paul Oson could also be fined up to $500,000 (ÂŁ250,000) at his sentencing in November, the FBI said.
Jan Paul Oson is an IT manager that has been working for a community health care organization in the United States. He got a bad performance evaluation so he resigned. Two months after
doing that, he decided that it would be a nice thing to hack into his ex-employer’s data base and start deleting some stuff. That’s when the Police decided it would be nice to arrest him. He’s facing up to 10 years behind bars now, but I can’t say that I feel sorry for him. He is a cyber-criminal of the lowest type.
The hacker behind the recent public disclosure (Techmeme, Wired, SecurityFocus) of 100 sensitive government/embassy e-mail accounts says he aimed packet sniffers at Tor exit nodes to capture the confidential information.
Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable Americaâs aircraft battle carrier fleet with a devastating cyber attack, according to a Pentagon report obtained by The Times.
Enterprises planning to deploy Windows Vista should not wait for Microsoft to release Vista’s first service pack (SP1), due in early 2008, before doing so, according to a Gartner analysis.
”Some people are making wild accusations against China and wantonly saying the Chinese military attacked the British government’s computer network,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu. ”However, according to my knowledge, China’s police have not received any requests from relevant countries for a joint investigation.”
President Bush may confront China over suspicions that its military hacked US defense computer systems. Since news broke this week that Chinese hackers, allegedly part of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), had hacked into US, British, and German government computers to access defense and foreign-policy-related information, analysts have begun to speculate that the West may be moving into something of a new age cold war stand-off with China.
Some people after graduating from a certain college come back and do something for it, others just forget they’ve ever been there. But that’s not the case of Luis Castillo, Alum of the Texas A&M University. After finishing college, he decided that a nice thing to do is hack into the school’s computer system. After he made his way into the system, he gained illegal access to data about 88.000 current and former students, faculty and staff members, as the Las Vegas Sun informs.
He had graduated with a computer science degree â why doesn’t that surprise me? I’ve noticed that a lot of people that are frustrated through college tend to do something bad against their ex-college or against the ex-school. I don’t know if this guy was an avenging nerd or something like that, but apparently he had no financial reason to do this, since he didn’t access any bank account numbers, nor has he meddled with the schools remunerating system. I lot of hackers do things just because they can. Their actions sometimes boggle my mind.
Businesses are failing to secure their Wi-Fi and VoIP networks adequately, leaving themselves open to growing security threats. IT body the National Computing Centre (NCC) is warning that, although organisations are addressing IT security generally, through virus protection, spam blocking and firewalls, newer technologies are being neglected. The NCC research found 40 percent of respondents either haven’t secured their wireless network at all or have done so only partially. Just 15 percent have VoIP security in place.
Chinese computer hackers are infiltrating British government networks, giving them access to secret information, according to media reports on Thursday. The reports in The Times and The Independent newspapers come a day after US President George W. Bush said he may bring up the issue of suspected Chinese cyber-attacks on the US defence department in a meeting with China’s President Hu Jintao.