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This was the tweet from the Associated Press on April 23: “Breaking: Two explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.” Of course, it wasn’t true. The AP had been hacked. But the stock market temporarily lost more than 100 points on the news, and the tweet briefly rattled some already jittery nerves around the… Read More…

Seattle trio accused of crazy high-tech crime spree

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A federal grand jury indictment announced today against three Seattle men reads like the plot for a high-tech crime novel — accusing them of hacking into wireless networks using long-range antennas on a specially equipped vehicle, using lost and stolen laptops to gain access to corporate networks, burglarizing businesses to upload password-stealing malware, using that… Read More…

Deputies descend on Xbox Live employee’s house after apparent 911 hoax by hackers

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An employee of Microsoft’s Xbox Live had his home surrounded by deputies recently after the King County Sheriff’s Office received a series of scary text messages making it seem as if he were caught up in a Jack Bauer plotline – saying that armed Russian attackers with military mines had cut his phone lines and broken into… Read More…