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Mitnick gets 22-month jail sentence
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FRAUD/HACKING Ex-hacker gets thousands of unwanted passwords States, Mark Abene, Inbeenthe United receiving tens of thousands
one of the world’s most notorious hackers and better known as ‘Phiber Optik’, has of Internet users passwords. The passwords, claims the ex-hacker have arrived in his mailbox as the result of a computer security initiative gone wrong. Abene, who spent a year in a United States prison after he and fellow members of the Masters of Deception hacker group were convicted of breaking into telephone networks and now on probation, has been working as acomputer security consultant, helping companies avoid the very break-ins he once perpetrated.
‘Phiber Optik’, has been receiving tens of thousands of Internet users passwords” “
He now finds himself the recipient of thousands of passwords that potentially allow him to break into computer systems worldwide. The situation, however, wasn’t malicious he claims. While checking security for a local Internet service provider, Abene sent a message to the system to try to exploit a well-known security hole in an old version of software that runs the Internet’s online bulletin board. He issued commands that would make the system send its master password list to his own E-mail address, a technique known by hackers for years. Though he specified that the commands be issued to the onlne service’s own system, the computer inadvertently sent the hacker commands to thousands of computers around the world.
Mitnick gets 22-month jail sentence federal judge in the United States indicated that she plans to sentence A prison sentence for cellular phone fraud and violating his probation
famous hacker Kevin Mitnick to a 22-month from an earlier computer crime conviction. The Los Angeles Times reports that Mitnick still has a 25count federal indictment pending against him for stealing millions of dollars in software during an elaborate hacking spree while he was a fugitive. Judge Pfaelzer said that she plans to sentence Mitnick to eight months on the cellular phone charge and 14 months for violating his probation. Mitnick faces the sentence for violating terms of his probation in 1992 when he broke into PacBell voice mail computers and used stolen passwords to listen to voice mail.
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Computer Fraud & Security August 1997 0 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd
FRAUD/HACKING Ex-hacker gets thousands of unwanted passwords States, Mark Abene, Inbeenthe United receiving tens of thousands
one of the world’s most notorious hackers and better known as ‘Phiber Optik’, has of Internet users passwords. The passwords, claims the ex-hacker have arrived in his mailbox as the result of a computer security initiative gone wrong. Abene, who spent a year in a United States prison after he and fellow members of the Masters of Deception hacker group were convicted of breaking into telephone networks and now on probation, has been working as acomputer security consultant, helping companies avoid the very break-ins he once perpetrated.
‘Phiber Optik’, has been receiving tens of thousands of Internet users passwords” “
He now finds himself the recipient of thousands of passwords that potentially allow him to break into computer systems worldwide. The situation, however, wasn’t malicious he claims. While checking security for a local Internet service provider, Abene sent a message to the system to try to exploit a well-known security hole in an old version of software that runs the Internet’s online bulletin board. He issued commands that would make the system send its master password list to his own E-mail address, a technique known by hackers for years. Though he specified that the commands be issued to the onlne service’s own system, the computer inadvertently sent the hacker commands to thousands of computers around the world.
Mitnick gets 22-month jail sentence federal judge in the United States indicated that she plans to sentence A prison sentence for cellular phone fraud and violating his probation
famous hacker Kevin Mitnick to a 22-month from an earlier computer crime conviction. The Los Angeles Times reports that Mitnick still has a 25count federal indictment pending against him for stealing millions of dollars in software during an elaborate hacking spree while he was a fugitive. Judge Pfaelzer said that she plans to sentence Mitnick to eight months on the cellular phone charge and 14 months for violating his probation. Mitnick faces the sentence for violating terms of his probation in 1992 when he broke into PacBell voice mail computers and used stolen passwords to listen to voice mail.
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Editor: 34LL J. CAELLI
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EuropeanEfBtar: ~. KEN W.ONG
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Computer Fraud & Security August 1997 0 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd