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Hackers for hire put corporate security systems to the test

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 10:40am

LOS ANGELES -- Most weekdays, Jarrad Sims and Tin Tam, a pair of college buddies, ride their bikes to a computer center and try to hack into computer security systems belonging to Boeing Co.

Rather than having them arrested, Boeing is paying them to do it -- a situation that the car-loving, video-gaming friends have pronounced "awesome."

For two years, the young engineers have worked side by side in a secluded unit where they design and thoroughly test ironclad security systems for the largest aerospace company in the world. Boeing's systems need to be capable of staving off hackers and keeping safe some of the nation's most prized intellectual property.

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Facebook uses 'hacker bootcamp' to train engineers

Mike Swift San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 9:44am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Congratulations, recruit! It's time to learn the ropes of your Facebook engineering job.

Take a seat at one of Facebook's long, white desks and look at the piece of paper taped on your monitor: "Welcome to Facebook!"

Underneath, printed in big, bold, red letters, are slogans like: "We Hack Therefore We Are," or "Move Fast and Break Things." Within days, your software code will be in front of our more than 845 million users.

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Man linked to hacking Utah police websites pleads not guilty

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 3:16pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective "Anonymous" pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of breaching the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department.

John Anthony Borell III took credit for the attacks on Twitter, said FBI officials, who subpoenaed the direct messages the suspect traded with Salt Lake City reporters. The FBI traced Borell's Twitter account to a workplace computer.

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We’re all helpless targets in the computer hacking age

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 10:58pm

I want to find those guys who hacked into the Utah Department of Health’s computers. I need them to help me break into my own company’s timecard software so I can get paid.

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Experts: Victims of Utah's health data breach need to act fast

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 11:18pm

OGDEN — You are one of 280,000 Medicaid or CHIP clients of the Utah Department of Health whose Social Security number was hacked in a security breach March 30.

Or, you are one of 500,000 whose less-sensitive information — age, address, sex and other information — was hacked.

Now what?

Act fast. Theft of a Social Security number, especially, is a serious problem.

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Utah again revises figure of health records stolen

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 10:35pm

SALT LAKE CITY — An additional 750,000 people had their personal information stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of data than authorities initially believed.

Officials originally estimated that about 24,000 people had their records stolen after a computer tracked to Eastern Europe infiltrated a server beginning March 30. They later changed that number to 182,000 victims.

Health officials now believe a total of nearly 900,000 people have had their personal data stolen.

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Hackers get into Utah health department records

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 2:57pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Hundreds of thousands of people could have had their Social Security numbers stolen by hackers, state health officials said Monday after discovering that the thieves downloaded thousands more files of personal information than authorities initially believed.

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Health officials say breach might affect more records than originally thought

Josh Loftin The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 6, 2012 - 7:30pm

Concerned clients can call the Health Department’s hotline at 800-662-9651 or click here for more information.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah health officials said Friday that hackers who broke into state computers last weekend stole far more medical records than originally thought, and the data likely includes Social Security numbers of children who have received public assistance.

Approximately 182,000 beneficiaries of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program had their personal information stolen, and about 25,000 Social Security numbers were compromised, Utah Department of Health officials said.

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Hacking group claims attack on dating site for military

Salvador Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 10:19pm

LOS ANGELES — The hacker group known as LulzSec appears to be back after many months of lying low, saying it has obtained email addresses and other information about nearly 171,000 users of MilitarySingles.com, a commercial dating site.

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Scarlett Johansson hacker pleads guilty to stealing naked images

Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 4:51pm

LOS ANGELES -- After hacking into the email accounts of Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson to procure naked images of them, a Florida man pleaded guilty in court Monday to nine felony cyber crimes and was immediately taken into custody.

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ILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, Andy Coulson, formerly editor of the tabloid News of the World, and later David Cameron's director of communications, speaks on a mobile phone in London. London police on Friday, July 8, 2011, arrested Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as the prime minister's former communications chief, in relation to Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal. London police said a 43-year-old man was arrested Friday morning over allegations of phone hacking and police bribery and was in custody at a London police station. They did not name him but offered the information when asked about Coulson. (AP Photo/Oli Scarff, Pool, file)

PM's ex-aide arrested in UK hacking scandal

Jim Lawless, Robert Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 10:33am

LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire.

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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, Chief Executive of News International Rebekah Brooks, centre, is seen at the Conservative Party Conference, Manchester, England. Rupert Murdoch's News International shocked Britain on Thursday, July 7, 2011, by announcing it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of an ugly phone hacking scandal. Brooks was the tabloid's editor at the time of the alleged phone hacking. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

News of the World shutting down amid scandal

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 11:51am

LONDON -- News International announced Thursday it is shutting down the News of the World, the best-selling tabloid at the center of Britain's phone hacking scandal.

James Murdoch, who heads European operations for the paper's parent company, said the 168-year-old weekly newspaper would publish its last edition on Sunday, without ads.

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British actor Hugh Grant, right, speaks with an unidentified 'Hacked Off' campaigner outside the Houses of Parliament in London, where a debate was being held into the allegations of phone hacking by journalists Wednesday July 6, 2011. Britain's voracious tabloids may have hit a new low: The News of the World, part of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire at News Corp, is facing claims that it hacked into a missing 13-year-old's phone messages, possibly hampering a police inquiry into her disappearance. "Newspapers were using phone hacking on a widespread and industrial basis ... (with) the apparent collusion of parts of the Metropolitan Police," actor Hugh Grant told BBC radio. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

UK police appeal for patience in hacking probe

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Last updated Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 9:09am

UK police appeal for patience in hacking probe

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LONDON (AP) -- The police officer in charge of Britain's burgeoning phone hacking probe has appealed to the public for patience as authorities contact thousands of potential victims.

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