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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:07:14 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/188156-5277-102.html
Associated Press
October 21, 2004

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Someone gained unauthorized access to Purdue's
computers, prompting school officials today to urge all students,
staff and faculty to change their passwords.

"We have confirmed that some computer passwords have been obtained by
unauthorized users accessing a number of computer systems," said Scott
Ksander of Purdue's information technology office. "The full extent of
the problem is still being analyzed, but we think it is important to
exercise caution, and the best action to take is for all users to
change their passwords at this time."

Purdue officials said that after the initial breach was detected, an
investigation found that computers in several locations on the
38,000-student West Lafayette campus had been accessed.

The Purdue police department was notified of the hacking Wednesday.

The school has not been able to determine whether personal information
was copied by the hacker. Ksander said computer users should watch for
signs that their personal information might have been obtained by
others.

"Purdue's information technology professionals identified the
situation quickly and now are working hard to determine the extent of
the problem," said Joseph Bennett, vice president for university
relations.

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50 hackers 'stole' $28m

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1608465,00.html

Edited by Andiswa Mesatywa
21/10/2004

Rio De Janeiro - Brazil's federal police on Wednesday arrested 50
hackers who were accused of using the internet to syphon off $28m from
bank accounts of private citizens.

Authorities said that hackers attacked some of the leading technology
users in Brazil's financial sector: Caixa Economica Federal, Banco do
Brasil, HSBC, Bradesco, Unibanco and Itau.

Most of the suspects are under 25-years-old, a police spokesperson
said.

Investigators found that the online thieves sent their victims email
messages. Once the unsuspecting depositors opened the messages, their
banking information and personal access codes became available to the
hackers, who were able to transfer money out of the accounts to other
bank accounts.
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Source code thefts, hacking on the rise
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=72054
SRINIVAS R
October 22, 2004

Bangalore - Cyber crimes in India are slowly evolving from a simple
e-mail crime (sending obscene materials over e-mail) to more serious
crimes like hacking and source code theft.

The Bangalore cyber crime police station has registered around 22
hacking cases and around five source code theft cases in the last
three years. "Usually it is employees of the company who steal source
code and try to sell it for easy money," said Susant Mahapatra,
IGP-Economic Offences- Corps of Detectives (CoD).

For instance, last year an employee of Zygox in Bangalore allegedly
stole the source code of the product called "DigiBeat", which was
being developed by the company and started his own company as Techmach
Engineers and developed a product called "E-beat" with the source
code. In another instance, an engineer from IT Must Consultancy
services Pvt Ltd, allegedly stole the source code of one the company's
sports betting software. "Theft of intellectual property is
increasing, " said police official.

Intellectual property rights (IPR) of computer software are covered
under the Copyright Law in 1994 in India. The Act clearly explains the
rights of copyright holder, position on rentals of software, the
rights of the user to make backup copies and the heavy punishment and
fines on infringement of copyright of software.

If a person is convicted of hacking or IP theft, he can be convicted
under either Section 66 (imprisonment for three years and a fine of Rs
1 lakh) or section 67 (five year imprisonment with Rs 2 lakh fine).

Threats from employees for an organisation doesn't stop here. The CoD
has also registered cases involving sending obscene e-mails to women
colleagues from their male counterparts.

Interestingly it discovered that most cyber crime involving sending
obscene messages arise from "triangluar love stories" within the
orgnisations.

"It is just like a Hindi movie story. When romantic attemps fails,
some people start sending obscene photos by e-mail to lady colleagues
as a "revenge"," said police officials.

Usually such messages are sent out from cyber cafes. "With the help of
internet service providers, we can trace where mails have been sent
from," said Mr Mahapatra.

While technology can even help pinpoint which computer it has been
sent from, it is still not possible to identify the individual who has
sent it.

The Karnataka government is planning to bring a law, where persons
wanting to browse at Internet cafes will be asked for some
identification (a driving licence, or identity card). The cyber centre
operator would also have to maintain a list for a year of persons who
have used the computers.

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Hackers stop Guardian campaign
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19252
By Nick Farrell
25 October 2004

US CRACKERS have managed to do what governments, business people, and
individuals have tried for years - get a British newspaper to stop
printing things that they don't like.

The Grauniad miffed voters in Ohio by suggesting which way they should
use their power as a swing state to influence the course of the
presidential election.

The newspaper's website said letter writers were free to support
either the Republican incumbent, US President George W. Bush, or
Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry. But it noted a Guardian poll
showed overwhelming support for Kerry.

The Guardian had invited its readers to contact voters in Clark
County, Ohio, a swing state, about the importance of the November 2
election.

Within the first day, more than 3,000 readers logged on to the
newspaper's Web site to obtain the name and address of an unaffiliated
voter taken from electoral rolls.

By the time the news got over to the Americans, the campaign was
interpreted as a bid by the evil left wing English press telling US
people to vote for Kerry.

Not only did they get thousands of angry phlegms and snottograms from
Americans who apparently read the august organ across the pond.

They also received the attentions of crackers who believed it was
their patriotic duty to silence a free press, who they thought was
talking ill of their candidate.

The site was hacked and shut down. However, with true British stiff
upper lip and in the traditions of sticking to your point of view no
matter what the cost, the Guardian has decided against ploughing ahead
regardless.

The editors have decided that enough is enough and they are calling it
quits. So just remember if a paper says something you don't like,
don't bother with defamation courts. A simple denial of service attack
is all that is required to stop a media campaign.


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