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Ohio Election Web Site Hacked

The Web site of the Ohio Secretary of State that oversees voter registration and other election information was shut down briefly after it was hacked on Monday according to Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State.

Hacker Indicted for the Palin Email Job

You may remember a few weeks ago when vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email account was hacked. This was revealed to be the work of David Kernell, the son of Tennessee Democratic State Representative Mike Kernell. David was indicted Wednesday morning, and faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after turning himself in.

The O'Reilly "Hacked"-or

Everyone knows that vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email account was hacked into. Naturally Bill O'Reilly had something to say about that matter:

Warning: Hackers Infecting Twitter Users

Some people get on my case because I don’t follow everyone on Twitter, who follows me. Well, for one thing, I’d never keep up with 3000+ Tweeple, but I also live by my mantra of building meaningful relationships with social media–I don’t care about any popularity contest.

Congressman Says China Hacked His Computers

U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said that four computers in his office had been compromised in 2006 and that computers used by other members of Congress and by the House Foreign Affairs Committee also were hacked.

Hackers Crash Panama’s Assembly Web Site

Internet hackers brought down the Web site of Panama's National Assembly and briefly posted an American flag there, after the legislature voted in as its president a man accused of murdering a U.S. soldier.

Talk Show Host Gets Bank Account Hacked

Hackers turn the tables on the talk show host “Top Gear” who made an outrageous claim that no one could do anything evil if their banking information was stolen. The humor part comes in that when he checked his bank account, someone had done a 500 pound (1000 dollar) donation to diabetes UK.

UK Aims to Stop Hackers by Banning Tools

In what could be a bad day for United Kingdom pen testers, stress testers, and other systems security folks, the UK is getting ready to ban the creation and distribution of tools that could be used by hackers. This generally unpleasant concept could make it not only impossible to create the next nessus or nmap by anyone in the UK, it could also send them to jail for distributing the tools they make as well. This ought to set back UK computer security by decades.

Student Hackers Looking At 20 Years In Jail

Two former students who attended Fresno State have been charged by a federal grand jury for hacking into the schools computer network and altering their grades.

Microsoft's Hacker Blog

MSDN has a new blog: Hackers @ Microsoft. The new blog is written by and about the white hat hackers employed by Microsoft, who work on improving security in Microsoft’s products (as well as research, development, testing and even management). The first post explains the kind of hackers who work at Microsoft: