Hoo boy, how large is the crowd that'll feel smug today at the news that hacker Kevin Mitnick got hacked this weekend? Hackers from Pakistan left "a vulgar message" on the front pages of Kevin's personal site says CNET. The result (captured by alt-news site Zone-h) is rather fetching, especially the illustration shown here.
Valleywag correspondent ConFonz raced out of Silicon Valley to hang at DefCon, the daddy of all hacker conventions. Here's his report, grisly as a post-mescaline Hunter S. Thompson piece.
The hacker named "D" didn't really want to write "fuck" in a pop-up when he hacked Netscape.com.
I'm as confused as you'll be about this video found on YouTube (with the title "Naaasty Footage!"). As far as I can tell, the action goes as follows:
Superstar hacker Kevin Mitnick is out of a Bogota hospital after getting floored by the flu, according to an AP report (which hasn't been publically reprinted yet).
As of Sunday afternoon, Microsoft France was, well, partially invaded by Turkish hackers redLine, rudeb0y, Ejder, The_Bekir, SaCReDSeeR, and ASH (sic). The kiddies took down the subdomain http://experts.microsoft.fr and slapped up a notice promising to hack Microsoft.com. So far, the front page of Microsoft.fr (which redirects to Microsoft.com/France) is unharmed.
Pitch Magazine says it's found the tech world's James Frey in hacker and search engineer John Flowers. In an eight-page piece, Pitch writer David Martin crows over inconsistencies in Flowers' history (as given by Flowers in speeches, interviews, and his blog). But, so what? Maybe there are still some standards in memoir publishing, but this is a hacker. Deception and braggadocio are prerequisites.
It's not in the papers yet — damn those lead times — but a media frenzy is frothing around the fresh meat of the Spam King's arrest. (The backstory: Alan Ralsky, pictured, is in the DOJ's hands, and they're grilling him for info on other hackers and spammers in a plea-bargain session.) Ralsky's quickly becoming a useless pressure point for the DOJ as reporters blow up the story, alerting everyone in the spam and hacking world and sending them scuttling out of sight. Major media contact for the hacker community, MemeHacker, sends this chat log from a conversation with another hacker:
It's a twofer today — ConFonz finds the hackers at EclipseCON 2006. Here's the wrap-up, either from ConFonz or from whatever script kiddy took over his laptop.
