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...Crimson Cash service is provided by Blackboard Inc., a Washington, D.C.--based company that has installed similar systems in more than 400 schools and businesses. According to material posted on the Internet by the two student hackers, the weakness of Blackboard systems arises from the reliance on physical rather than electronic security: transaction information travels unencrypted between card-swipe terminals and servers. According to the hackers, the wiring that carries this information is often easily accessible, making it very easy to tap into the system. A hacker can then record and emulate the signals transmitted when a person uses...
...complaint alleges that a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which uses the same software as Harvard, broke into the system, posted information about it on his website, and claimed that he would publicly disclose his finding at an upcoming hacker conference...
Hoffman then allegedly posted photographs and description of the system on his website www.yak.net, as well as claims that he would publicly disclose his findings at an upcoming hacker conference, the complaint says...
...high-profile incident in April 2001, a hacker posted a message saying “Harvard sux” on the home page of the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid—just in time for pre-frosh weekend...
...Duck, the Rushin Hacker,” claimed authorship for the mysterious message, which apparently referenced the bells housed in Lowell tower that originally belonged to the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow...