By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Romanian hacker is suspected of breaking into several NASA and Pentagon servers and posting confidential data from the servers on his blog, the Associated Press reports. Romanian officials are investigating the youth, officials said on Tuesday, in cooperation with the FBI. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, reportedly an information technology student,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI, with the help of local law enforcement, arrested four people in the Philippines last week allegedly hacking into AT&T’s computer system. CNET News reports that the four were allegedly paid by the same Saudi Arabian terrorist group that funded the 2008 Mumbai attacks. While AT&T said their systems were…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Some have been called criminals and troublemakers, some freedom fighters and political activists. Now, three can assuredly be called indicted. Two computer hackers affiliated with the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous have been arrested by the FBI, reports Fox News. Cody Kretsinger, 23, was charged in Phoenix with conspiracy and the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is now looking into the scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s Brit reporters to see if they tried to access cellphone record messages and records of 9/11 victims, the Los Angeles Times reported. The FBI has opened up a preliminary probe into the scandal that has rocked Great Britain, and raised…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com World class computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, who tapped into the credit card information of some of America’s biggest corporations like 7-Eleven, looked pretty subdued in federal court on Tuesday when he pleaded guilty, a sharp contrast to his everyday persona as a major thief. The Boston Globe reports that Gonzalez, who…
