Decoding Computer Intruders. To fight online attacks from computer hackers and virus writers, one needs to understand the perpetrators and their motives. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology]

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Recording Industry Goes After Students Over Music Sharing. The suits, which seek billions of dollars in damages, accuse four college students of unauthorized copying of digital music. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Time to get Freenet, guys.

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Hacker causes havoc for websites. Up to 1,500 sites could have been affected by an attack on a server owned by a UK web hosting firm. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Clients lost information because neither the hosting company, nor the clients, had back up of what was on the server... Sometimes these stories makes you think they deserved to be attacked.

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Madonna.com hacked. After Madonna rudely planted fake tracks from her new record last week on the P2Pnets (see Cory's post below), a prankster responded on Saturday by hacking madonna.com and posting MP3s of the entire album four days before it hit stores. [Boing Boing Blog]

For those who think Micro$oft is the security problem, Madonna's site used Apache with Solaris 8. Nobody can witstand a direct attack. And that's one reason why pranks like Madonna's end up backfiring...

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