Hackers


Officials Worry About Safety of Financial Data -- Shane Harris  -- National Journal  -- October 17, 2008
Information Warfare

U.S. intelligence officials increasingly fear that computer hackers could wreck banks and large financial institutions, or send stock markets into one more panicked frenzy, by covertly manipulating data and spreading false information.

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Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams -- Ann Harrison  -- Wired News  -- January 2, 2006
CCTV

Hackers in Austria have developed a variety of methods for hacking or jamming surveillance cameras.

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Hackers Attack Via Chinese Web Sites -- Bradley Graham  -- Washington Post  -- August 25, 2005
China

Web sites in China are being used heavily to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks, according to several U.S. officials.

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Worm war cripples computers at US firms -- Will Knight  -- New Scientist  -- August 17, 2005
Information Warfare

A spat between rival computer worm writers has escalated into a
destructive free-for-all, with an assortment of worms infecting
thousands of computers worldwide and disrupting several high profile
companies.

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Genome Research May Allow Virus 'Hackers' -- Robert Lemos  -- SecurityFocus  -- May 5, 2005
Hackers

Recent technological advances in so-called genetic circuits have brought closer a world where cells and viruses could be modified to more effectively serve humans, but also have raised concerns that programmable life could lead to a host of tailored threats similar to Internet worms.

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U.S. Military's Elite Hacker Crew -- John Lasker  -- Wired News  -- April 18, 2005
Hackers

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets.

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Experts worry that synthetic biology may spawn biohackers -- Chappell Brown  -- EE Times  -- June 29, 2004
Genetic Engineering

Design automation systems tailored to the task of genetic engineering could prove to be double-edged tools. While they represent a central thrust of the emerging synthetic biology movement, they also can lead to the accidental or deliberate creation of pathogenic biological components.

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Open Source Life -- Jimmy Rock  -- Download Aborted  -- June 21, 2004
Hackers

The author muses on the possibility of genetic engineering going "open source" and the risk of bio-hackers.

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Synthetic Biology -- W. Wayt Gibbs  -- Scientific American  -- May 1, 2004
Hackers

Biologists are crafting libraries of interchangeable DNA parts and assembling them inside microbes to create programmable, living machines

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Flaw Could Cripple Entire Net -- Staff  -- Associated Press  -- April 20, 2004
Information Warfare

Researchers uncovered a serious flaw in the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that led to an urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages.

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