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Whatever happened to Crackas with Attitude, perfidious Albion College’s approach to locking down Coronavirus, and the Bridgefy mesh messaging app falls down when it comes to security.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #193: Hacking the CIA, Bridgefy, and college lockdowns
The British teenager who managed to hack into the online accounts of several high-profile US government employees sentenced to two years in prison on Friday.
Kane Gamble, now 18, hacked into email accounts of former CIA director John Brennan, former D… Continue reading British Schoolboy Who Hacked CIA Director Gets 2-Year Prison Term
A judge in London sentenced a British teenager who was part of the hacking group Crackas With Attitude, which targeted prominent US government employees. Continue reading Teen Who Hacked Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Gets Sentenced to 2 Years of Prison
Of all the adversaries facing the US in cyberspace, there is one that the FBI and CIA often seem to struggle to contain: teenagers. Continue reading How a teen used social engineering to take on the FBI and CIA
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Remember the infamous Crackas with Attitude (CWA) hacking group? If
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Remember “Crackas With Attitude”?
A notorious pro-Palestinian hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks against United States intelligence officials and leaked the personal details of 20,000 FBI agents, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security … Continue reading 15-Year-Old Schoolboy Posed as CIA Chief to Hack Highly Sensitive Information
Remember “Crackas With Attitude”?
The hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of senior officials at the FBI, the CIA, and the White House, among other United States federal agencies in 2015.
A member… Continue reading Hacker Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI & CIA Director Gets 5-Year in Prison
A member of the hacking group “Crackas With Attitude” was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to hack U.S. government computer systems and accounts. Victims included more than ten U.S. government officials including the then-director of the CIA John Brennan. Justin Liverman, a 25-year-old who was known under the online alias “D3F4ULT,” pleaded guilty on Jan. 6. His sentence is the maximum allowed under the statute. Liverman will also be forced to pay $145,000 in restitution. The sentencing comes exactly one year after the Justice Department announced the arrest of Liverman and Andrew Otto Boggs, otherwise known as “INCURSIO,” for their involvement with Crackas With Attitude. The pair hacked into organizations under the group’s banner between October 2015 and February 2016. Boggs was sentenced to two years in prison for his role. Emails from Brennan’s America Online account showed up on WikiLeaks in October 2015, including a security clearance questionnaire […]
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A proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use hacking tools on the dark web is causing an increasing number of U.S. teenagers to commit computer crimes, according to FBI and Justice Department officials. Government lawyers are seeing such a noticeable spike in adolescent cases that reminds some of the late 1990s, when the term “script kiddies” was first coined. “When I first joined the computer crime prosecution business, you would have these grey haired lawyers who would talk about the 80s and 90s, when they were prosecuting like 13- and 16-year-olds but that [had] really dropped off,” said Josh Goldfoot, deputy chief of the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. “The 16-year-olds are coming back as a threat because it’s so easy now on the other side to acquire this type of stuff.” Adolescent hackers are once again becoming common, Goldfoot expounded, because of greater accessibility to exploit kits online and more […]
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Justin Liverman allegedly encouraged others to publish the personal information of a US government official, and paid to bomb a target phone with spam. Continue reading Defense Fund Launched for Alleged Member of Group That Hacked CIA Director