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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:30 PM

Computer Hacker

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Name: Computer Hacker

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 9 Documents (in Environment)

Hackers steal climate data, leak online

Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world’s leading climate scientists during the past 13 years have been stolen by hackers and leaked online, it emerged on Friday. The computer files were apparently accessed ... [Deccan Herald - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Computer Hacker, Climate, Global Warming/Climate Change, Bob Ward, University of East Anglia

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 12 hours ago - 14 Documents (in Environment)

Hackers Prove Global Warming Is A Scam

It's now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam.Thanks to hackers (or an insider) who broke into The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and downloaded 156 megaybytes of data including extremely ... [Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Phil Jones, Global Warming/Climate Change, Computer Hacker, Michael Mann

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 7 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Hackers free Snow Leopard from Jobsian cage

Snow Leopard users are once again free to run the Apple operating system on hardware with Atom processors, courtesy of hackers in Russia.A custom version of OS 10.6.2 distributed here (http://teateam.blogspot.com/2009/11/mac-os-x-1062.html) works around ... [The Register - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Computer Hacker, Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 9 Documents (in Internet & IT)

China's Cyberwars [Voices]

By James T. Areddy, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalChina’s military is under attack. At least its Web site is…from hackers.In a sign that China’s Ministry of National Defense faces the same kind of Internet security challenges that militaries around ... [All Things Digital - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Cyber Terrorism, China, James Areddy, Computer Hacker

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Comcast Corporation

Three charged as Comcast hackers

Three men are accused in federal court of hacking the Comcast Web site.STORY HIGHLIGHTSChristopher Allen Lewis, James Robert Black Jr. alleged to be hackers "EBK" and "Defiant"Pair allegedly hijacked Comcast's domain; Michael Paul Lebel charged with helping ... [CNN - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Comcast Corporation, Computer Hacker, Christopher Allen, Lewis James, Robert Black

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)

Al Gore

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

A That server was quickly shut down but parts of the stolen files have been spread on blogs and other websites. East Anglia admits the theft and re-posting but has not confirmed all the material is genuine. There are the equivalent of thousands of pages ... [ZDNet - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Computer Hacker, Al Gore

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Hackers Targeting Law Firms, FBI Warns

The FBI is warning U.S. law firms to beware of hackers. The FBI said this week that hackers are using phishing e-mails with malicious payloads to target law firms and public relations firms. "During the course of ongoing investigations, the FBI identified ... [Law.com - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Computer Hacker, Targeting, Phishing

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

UK Cybercrime Unit Arrests Duo Over Zbot Trojan

The Metropolitan Police have taken a hacker duo into custody over suspicions of their involvement in distributing malware to filch personal details from tens of thousands of computers across the globe.The suspected hacker pair were arrested in Manchester ... [ITProPortal.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Trojan horse, Cybercrime, Arrests, Metropolitan Police Service

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 13 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Environment)

Climate scientists accused of 'manipulating data'

Some of the worlds top climate scientists have been accused of manipulating data on global warming after hundreds of private emails were stolen by hackers and published online. Published: 8:00AM GMT 21 Nov 2009 The material was taken from servers at ... [Telegraph - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Climate, Global Warming/Climate Change, Climatic Research Unit, Climate Change Research

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

China military says website had 230 million attacks

BEIJING (Reuters) - A website set up by China's Ministry of Defence this summer was hit by more than 230 million hacker attacks in its first month of operation, but none of the attacks were successful, state media reported on Thursday. ... [Reuters: Internet News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: China, Military/Armed Forces, Computer Hacker

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Beware of these 12 online Christmas scams!

Cybercriminals take advantage of the holiday season, aiming to steal consumers' money, identities and financial information.As cybercriminals begin to take advantage of the holiday season, McAfee has revealed the 12 most dangerous online scams that computer ... [rediff.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: McAfee Inc, Computer Hacker, Cybercrime, Fraudulent

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Microsoft allows advertising

Microsoft has opened up its Windows 7 operating system to advertising, allowing brands to advertise on PC desktops.The technology company has struck a series of deals with the likes of Porsche, Pepsi and Twentieth Century Fox, which will allow users to ... [Express Buzz - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Microsoft Corporation, Windows 7, Computer Hacker

Quotes

"It was a hacker,” Jones told TGIF. “We were aware of this about three or four days ago that someone had hacked into our system and taken and copied loads of data files and emails."

Climate Change Scandal Erupts After Email Hack [Epoch Times - 2 hours ago]

...It also quoted retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who said the United States could easily suffer a similar fate. "We believe that if one institutes best practices - proper configurations, good network monitoring - that a system ought to be able to withstand about 80 percent of the commonly known attacks" Schaeffer said. Reitinger agreed

Federal officials say U.S. can stop only 4 of every 5 cyber attacks [AXcess News - 3 hours ago]

...has been taken completely out of context and I want to put the record straight,said Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit. "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline. Mike's series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct +is 0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998." The first thing to point out is that this refers to one diagram - not a scientific paper - which was used in the World Meteorological Organisation's...

Hackers attack UK climate research centre [V3.co.uk - 3 hours ago]

...In early November, the so-called Rick Astley worm struck certain iPhones and turned their wallpaper to an image of the "80s music icon. A few days later, a related worm, iPhone/Privacy.A, began gaining access to users" e-mail and SMS messages, calendar appointments, contacts, and photos...

Smartphones: A Bigger Target for Security Threats [EChannelnews.com - 4 hours ago]

More Content

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Elsewhere in the Enviro-Activist Mediasphere [American Spectator - 1 hour ago]
Hackers steal climate data, leak online [Deccan Herald - 1 hour ago]
OPINION / Data leaks and insider threats: Prote... [Government Security News - 2 hours ago]
Leaked emails stoke climate debate [West Australian - 2 hours ago]
Climate Change Scandal Erupts After Email Hack [Epoch Times - 2 hours ago]
Federal officials say U.S. can stop only 4 of e... [AXcess News - 3 hours ago]
The Great Climate Change Scandal of 2009 [BNET - 3 hours ago]
Hackers attack UK climate research centre [V3.co.uk - 3 hours ago]
Smartphones: A Bigger Target for Security Threats [EChannelnews.com - 4 hours ago]
Hacked e-mails highlight climate dispute [UPI - 4 hours ago]
Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate [Washington Post - 5 hours ago]
Global Warming Email Hack Reveals Value of Rout... [Publish.com - 6 hours ago]
Advanced metering: ecosystem, security threats ... [Power Management Design Line - 6 hours ago]
FortKnox Personal Firewall 5.0.305 (Windows) [ZDNet - 6 hours ago]
Hackers use UK school's e-mails in climate debate [Sydney Morning Herald - 7 hours ago]
Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute [MSNBC - 7 hours ago]
Bypass Your School and Office Filters with VPN ... [Prlog - 7 hours ago]
The Mac Cybercrime Immunity Fallacy [Mac News World - 8 hours ago]
6 Questions: One-on-One with Daniel McCann, pre... [Canadian Business Magazine - 10 hours ago]
Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest ... [Telegraph - 10 hours ago]
Phoneguard announces new protection software fo... [TechNews.AM - 10 hours ago]
PhoneGuard Announces New Protection Software fo... [Softpedia - 10 hours ago]
Comment on Turnbull’s climate crunch is coming ... [Crikey Media - 10 hours ago]
Comcast Domain Hijackers Indicted [Softpedia - 11 hours ago]
Are you malware protected? [myadsl.co.za - 11 hours ago]
Heard the one about the internet rumours? [Irish Times - 12 hours ago]
U.K Climate Research Center Confirms Data Breach [The Money Times - 13 hours ago]
You Knew 'Global Warming' Was a Scam [LewRockwell.com - 13 hours ago]
Internet bigots and loonies also have rights [Thought Leader - 13 hours ago]

Blogs

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Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global ... [Pajamas Media - 2 hours ago] BBC confirms that a hack did indeed occur. Is this smoking-gun evidence of global warming data being fabricated? (Also read Richard Fernandez: ) UPDATE: explains ...
Kevin Grandia: Stolen CRU emails: Who are the c... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 3 hours ago] Former Republican strategist Marc Morano is having as much fun with the stolen emails from the Climate Research Unit that he did with the Swift Boat Veteran's ...
Hackers use UK school’s e-mails in climate debate [Economy-Finance - 5 hours ago] LONDON— A British university says computer hackers have broken into its world-renowned climate change research department and posted the contents of e-mails and ...
Global Warming Scam Exposed, Climagate [The Market Oracle - 7 hours ago] James Delingpole writes: If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global ...
Evidence that Global Warming Is a Scam [The Market Oracle - 7 hours ago] AM By: Mike_Shedlock It's now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam. Thanks to hackers (or an insider) who broke into (CRU) ...

Audio/Video

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The man who watered down the public option expl... [Slate Magazine - 11/18/2009]
Mr. Level Playing Field [Slate Magazine - 11/18/2009]
17 November, 2009 – This Week in Science Broadcast [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 11/17/2009]
17 November, 2009 – This Week in Science Broadcast [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - 11/17/2009]
17 November, 2009 – This Week in Science Broadcast [Mefeedia Video Tag : medici - 11/17/2009]

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