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Case in point: John Vranesevich, founder of hacker-watch website AntiOnline.com seen by many hackers as something of a Benedict Arnold. So loathed is he that AntiOnline is an almost constant target for DOS attacks (in one of its more entertaining features, the site lets you see who's attacking it, and how, in real time). While the Feds were still holding press conferences, AntiOnline had already compiled a perp-profile sheet. The attacks, it says, were committed by a cell of three to six hackers--most likely teenagers, most likely male. "All DOS attacks have been perpetrated by more...
...right? Wrong. It was only the beginning of what hacker watchdog John Vranesevich, founder of AntiOnline, calls an "online temper tantrum." Word spread to wired dorms and bedrooms all over the world that U.S. government sites were the target du jour. A group called Masters of Downloading replaced the Senate's home page with its own anti-FBI screed; a Portuguese hacker named M1crochip defaced an obscure Interior Department page and vowed famously (at least for 15 minutes) to "go after every computer on the Net with a [name that ends...
...Pentagon says it is looking into claims that a group of hackers calling itself 'The Masters of Downloading/2016216' has broken into the Pentagon's telecommunications backbone, stolen software for a military satellite system, and threatened to sell it to terrorists. John Vranesevich, a security expert and proprietor of AntiOnline.com who was instrumental in the capture of Analyzer, reports that the MOD/2016216 has "acquired" key security software from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And the hackers haven't neglected their military operations: They claim to have stolen submarine tracking software, and ominously promise to "prove it in early...
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