A hacker group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that targeted auction house Christie’s earlier this month.
The attack took place just before the start of its high-profile spring sales event involving more than $850 million worth of art. Online bidding was suspended, but the group claims it has accessed sensitive information about wealthy art collectors around the world, and is threatening to release it unless “an agreement” is reached. Digital Trends has more.
Please RT for reach: I’m trying to #FOIA records on computer intrusions into DOD systems during first Gulf War (1990), I have a GAO report which gives a high level summary but am looking for more.
Does anyone know what DOD department might have investigated #hacking back then?
@liaizon no problem! I am always on the lookout for stories relating to female hackers and phone phreaks as their stories are seriously under-represented in any of the mainstream hacker history timelines.
Stumbled across this 1984 episode of the comedy series Night Court called "The Computer Kid" about a precocious boy who winds up in trouble for #hacking his school and I love it.
#Hacking violence et coup de pression, qui a tenté d’empêcher la diffusion ?
La #Chine fait elle la police en #France ?
Hacking violence et coup de pression, qui a tenté d’empêcher la diffusion ?
Alerté en amont, Envoyé Spécial a pu suivre et filmer une opération clandestine de la #police#chinoise à #Paris. Une #histoire à peine croyable racontée dans un #reportage exceptionnel qui dérange la Chine.
"A computer virus is the product of a creative mind- a different type of creativity than Japan usually produces," said Yuichi Murano, an
executive of Nihon Sun Microsystems.
"Those are the kinds of talents we need more of." Nihon Sun is the Japanese subsidiary of a Silicon Valley company, Sun Microsystems, whose machines are both the favorite tools and the favorite targets of many hackers.
Been reading about the case of Edward Austin Singh in the UK, a #hacker who was caught physically trespassing in a Teesside Polytechnic college computer lab, while connected to various #hacked computers, by UK police in 1988. #hacking#history
Apparently the US Secret Service had become aware of Singh's hacking activities that touched on US government, military and corporate systems and there was some attempt to lure him to the US for arrest before the UK authorities eventually stepped in.
@realhackhistory I used to hang out with Edward quite a lot for a couple of years. Nearly went into business with him after we developed some secure file transfer software. After the Surrey stuff he did a nice "prank" hack on a video store chain.
Last I heard about him were rumours he was working for microsoft. never verified
There is a great book about him called "Beating the System" by Owen Bowcott
"In October, a computer hacker revealed how he entered the Belgian government's computer system and for several months read the electronic mail of about 10 Cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Wilfried Martens.
The hacker said he even met other "burglars" in the system, which had confidential information such as details on terrorist killings and the agenda of weekly Cabinet meetings."
The story of the first person convicted of planting a destructive computer virus, Donald Gene Burleson, from the March 1989 issue of Texas Monthly. This is a great write up of the story behind an incident that had taken place in 1985 and the resulting court case. #hacking#history https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/search-and-destroy/
Still combing through #hacker stories in news archives from 1987 & what the hell is this.
As reported in The Albany Herald in April of 1987, this cop had his #hacking conviction reversed, he'd managed to cyberstalk women in 1984! Unbelievable this was already a thing back then.
Olson, according to the investigating officers, admitted his uses of the computer "were not part of any official inquiry. but were solely for his own use for some sort of collection he called his 'Rogues' Gallery'"
FBI chief says Chinese have infiltrated critical US infrastructure
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow”, the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, has warned.
An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as #Volt#Typhoon has successfully gained access to numerous American companies in telecommunications, energy, water and other critical sectors, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Wray said.
China is developing the “ability to physically wreak havoc on our #critical#infrastructure at a time of its choosing”, Wray said at the 2024 Vanderbilt summit on modern conflict and emerging threats.
He added: “Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce #panic.”
Wray said it was difficult to determine the intent of this cyber pre-positioning, which was aligned with China’s broader intent to deter the US from defending Taiwan.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan strongly objects to China’s sovereignty claims and says only the island’s people can decide their future.
Earlier this week, a Chinese ministry of foreign affairs (MFA) spokesperson said Volt Typhoon was in fact unrelated to China’s government, but was part of a criminal #ransomware group. #VoltTyphoon#hacking
