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Computer hacking. Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish [1] systems administrator and hacker who was accused by a US prosecutor in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time". [2] McKinnon said that he was looking for evidence of free energy suppression and a cover-up of UFO activity and other ...
U.S. federal institutions reportedly breached. From top, clockwise: Defense, [1] Labor, [2] Energy, [3] State, [4] National Institutes of Health, [5] Commerce, [4] Homeland Security, [4] Treasury, [4] Agriculture, [6] Justice [7] In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated ...
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
The hacker who found the vulnerabilities was participating in the Army’s first-ever bug bounty program, Hack The Army, a challenge that invites security researchers to put their skills to the ...
Markus Hess. Markus Hess is a German hacker who was active in the 1980s. Alongside Dirk Brzezinski and Peter Carl, Hess hacked into networks of military and industrial computers based in the United States, Europe and East Asia, and sold the information to the Soviet KGB for US$54,000. [1] During his time working for the KGB, Hess is estimated ...
The U.S. government announced Wednesday it had disrupted a China-backed hacking operation targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, amid warnings that Beijing is preparing to cause “real-world ...
Grey hat hacktivist. Known for. Hacking anti-American, jihadist, and homophobic websites. Website. counter.social. The Jester (also known by the leetspeak handle th3j3st3r[1]) is a self-identified grey hat hacktivist. He claims to be responsible for attacks on WikiLeaks [2] and Islamist websites. [3] He claims to be acting out of American ...
Fancy Bear[b] is a Russian cyber espionage group. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has said with a medium level of confidence that it is associated with the Russian military intelligence agency GRU. [7][8] The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office [9] as well as security firms SecureWorks, [10] ThreatConnect, [11] and Mandiant, [12] have also said ...