Three Indian nationals have been charged as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into pump and dump stock schemes the boosted prices for fourteen stocks, including Google and Sun Microsystems.
MySpace User Tracker Hackers Smacked
A plea deal will keep two young New York men from prison for attempting to extort $150,000 from the social networking site MySpace.
Dolphin Stadium Sacked By Hackers
Do not visit the Dolphin Stadium website. It’s been hacked with malicious code placed on the server, as security firm Websense Security Labs discovered.
Spam King Pinched; Out-Narc’ed By Hackers
UPDATE; Our source, Valleywag, has retracted the rumor about the Spam King’s arrest: “Several reporters and spam fighters have checked on the Alan Ralsky story and told me it’s false. The FBI’s Detroit field office told one journalist that the Spam King was not arrested or held, is not in custody, and has not been indicted.”
Microsoft Open Port 25 To Hackers
For once, the correct definition of hackers applies here; the new Port 25 website from Microsoft offers communications from the company’s Open Source Software Lab.
Hackers Told To Hack Off Ponytails
Open source developers are the grunge rockers of the new millennium, the originals long dissolved in corporate formulaic art. Unlike their barefoot hippie predecessors (who woke up one day in Birkenstocks as Volvo-driving yuppies), they kept their ponytails as an affront to The Man, sharing their warez with the Kool-Aid drinking masses.
Hackers Unveil OEM PC Version Of Mac OS X
Several sources dedicated to all things Macintosh have cited reports of the Mac OS X being modified to work on any Intel-based PC.
Hackers Saw Plank, Microsoft Ship Drops
Within hours of the release of Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), hackers decided to flip off Microsoft with a single, simple line of javascript that promptly turned off the WGA and turned on laughter in hacker circles around the globe.
Hackers Force Planet X Outing
Hackers were busy this weekend, coincidentally at the same time 3000 of them gathered in the Netherlands the “What the Hack” convention. Google and Microsoft were hacked and now this, a hacker catalyzed the announcement about the 10th planet in our solar system by threatening those who knew about it.
From Hippies to Hackers
They’ve set up tents in the Netherlands for a weekend of sandal and tie-dyed counterculture misanthropic antidisestablishmentarianism over vegetarian meals and free ice cream while discussing the “politics of psychedelic research.” Hippies, you say? Nope. Hackers.