This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account of VanGuard Defense Industries SVP Richard Garcia. A related hacker community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of the BART Police Officers’ Association. Anonymous also breached the servers of another BART website, releasing data on about 2,000 BART riders. A former Shionogi employee pled guilty to U.S. federal charges that he remotely deleted the contents of 15 virtual hosts on the company’s network after he had left the firm’s employ.
Hacker Smack Talk Escalates
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 23, 2011 05:00 AMThis past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account of VanGuard Defense Industries SVP Richard Garcia. A related hacker community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of the BART Police Officers’ Association. Anonymous also breached the servers of another BART website, releasing data on about 2,000 BART riders. A former Shionogi employee pled guilty to U.S. federal charges that he remotely deleted the contents of 15 virtual hosts on the company’s network after he had left the firm’s employ.