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In an audacious attack, a hacker attempted to get his friend released from prison early.
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What’s worse than Dracula sucking your blood? Dracula sucking your blood and then trying to sell it back to you Continue reading Busted! Founder sells $51m website, hacks it, tries to sell site its own data
What’s worse than Dracula sucking your blood? Dracula sucking your blood and then trying to sell it back to you Continue reading Busted! Founder sells $51m website, hacks it, tries to sell site its own data
This is not the first time pipeline activists have faced felony convictions. Continue reading Climate Change Activist Convicted of Turning Valve, Faces Decade in Prison
This is not the first time pipeline activists have faced felony convictions. Continue reading Climate Change Activist Convicted of Turning Valve, Faces Decade in Prison
The Internet is everywhere. The latest anecdotal evidence of this is a story of prison inmates that build their own computer and connected it to the internet. Back in 2015, prisoners at the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio built two computers from discarded parts which they transported 1,100 feet through prison grounds (even passing a security checkpoint) before hiding them in the ceiling of a training room. The information has just been made public after the release of the Inspector General’s report (PDF). This report is fascinating and worth your time to read.
Prisoners managed to access the Ohio Department …read more
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Five Ohio inmates were caught with a functioning, internet-connected computer in the ceiling that they used for tax fraud, porn and drug recipes. Continue reading How to Illegally Build an Internet-Connected PC in Prison
Prisoners Hack Prison! Sounds exciting right? This time it’s actually pretty entertaining with the prisoners managing to hack a prison network from INSIDE the prison using scavenged PC parts from a rehabilitation class. Some pretty resourceful guys managing to build 2 functional PCs from scrapped parts AND connect to the prison network AND try and…
Read the full post at darknet.org.uk
Inmates in built computers from PCs they were supposed to be dismantling for recycling, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the prison network.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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The Hack42 Hackerspace in Arnhem, Netherlands is one of the best hackerspaces we’ve ever seen. After taking over a decommissioned military base, the Hack42 crew has filled a compound rimmed with razor wire with eclectic gizmos, tools, and a community that keeps growing the space. At this year’s EMF camp, Hack42 member [jos] laid out his plan to found the ultimate Hackerspace. He’s going to put a hackerspace in prison to create the ultimate hacker village, a monument to technomancy, and an anti-panopticon panopticon.
[jos] recently noticed a very large, very old prison — currently used to house refugees — …read more
