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Monday, July 15, 2002 |
Web sites increasingly are accepting advertising from Internet gambling sites. And
search engines are benefiting from the big fees online casinos will pay for placement --
far more than the fees for adult Web sites. Some companies, however, have decided that
casino money isn't worth the risk given gambling's dubious legal status. [NewsFactor Cybercrime & Security]
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Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. thought the Internet was a foolproof way of running his gambling operation ÷ little did he know that he was under virtual surveillance every time he typed in his computer password.
Scarfo, a New Jersey mobster, was sentenced last month to the maximum 33 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to running an illegal gambling ring.
FBI agents secretly wired Scarfo's office computer with a "key-logger" surveillance system and were able to find out his password. That password unlocked the gambling records the government used to build a case against him. [ABCNEWS]
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Power and energy companies are fast becoming a primary target of computer hackers who have managed to penetrate energy control networks as well as administrative systems, according to government cyber-terrorism officials and private security experts...
Experts suspect that the glare of adverse publicity has drawn the attention of not just joyriding hackers, but also corporate saboteurs and terrorists... [Nandotimes]
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Online newspaper defaced with bogus stories
Hackers have broken into the servers of USAToday online and posted news stories attacking George W. Bush and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
According to Reuters, the attack occurred shortly before 11pm local time last night.
The site was taken down in the early hours of this morning after the bogus stories began to appear on its home page.
USAToday.com has posted a statement saying that it is unsure of the source of the attack, and has refused to say how the hackers gained access.
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Trio of 'spies' face $645,000 bill
A Chicago insurance brokerage is suing three of its former employees, claiming that they hacked into its computer systems.
The Near North National Group claimed that the trio stole emails and other commercially sensitive information which they then passed on to business rivals.
David Cheley, Douglas Sikora and Craig Jongsma have been sued for more than $645,000, which the brokerage claims to have spent on investigating the tampering and restoring its systems.
According to DataWatch analyst Peter Williams it is one of the few cases where hackers have been personally sued for the damage they have caused.
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Maximillian Dornseif, 2002.
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