Hackers

  • Hacker: Gymnast He is 14, not 16

    A blogger uses Google and a Chinese search engine to find government documents showing the uneven-bars champ's birth date as Jan. 1, 1994.
  • Update: Cyberattacks against Georgia

    Many experts think that the Russian government may not be directly involved.
  • Cyberwar rages on in Georgia

    Government sites under attack from Russian hackers move to U.S.-based servers, including Atlanta's Tulip Systems.
  • How safe is safe?

    Security expert Doug Camplejohn on building a smarter firewall to outsmart cyber slimeballs.
  • If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone

    By breaking the phones that customers dared to unlock from AT&T, Apple has come out against its own customers legal rights.
  • iPhone hackers release free AT&T unlock kit

    No more contracts: Within three months of its release, the iPhone has been broken away from AT&T's network. Anyone can do it, for free.
  • U.S. military routinely hacks into Chinese networks

    Why wasn't that the headline on a "scoop" detailing Chinese infiltration of Pentagon computers?
  • How an undercover NBC reporter was outed by hackers

    A "Dateline" producer tried to cover the annual DEFCON convention with a hidden camera. Needless to say, she didn't get very far.
  • Meet the iPhone hackers

    The coding geniuses who are taking apart Apple's hot device say they're within a few days of making it work with cell networks beyond AT&T.
  • iPhone hackers add ring tones, wallpaper

    The worldwide crew of coders trying to unlock the iPhone report major progress. Freeing the Apple device from AT&T is only a matter of time.
  • Safe and insecure

    I opened up my wireless home network to the world, and I've never felt more comfortable.
  • Hackers on Atkins

    Geeks who go low-carb see it as more than just taking off pounds -- they're reengineering the human organism, overclocking their own bodies.
  • Warning. Warning. Warning. Fatal error. Stop.

    Ethan Levin wasn't worried. Programming mistakes were inevitable. He'd fix it, and move on. An excerpt from Ellen Ullman's new novel, "The Bug."
  • "Matrix" nostalgia

    Four years ago, geeks embraced the SF thriller because it promised them that reality could be hacked. Then came the tech-economy crash.
  • The copyright cops strike again

    Two researchers at a computer security conference are served cease-and-desist orders moments before they're scheduled to speak.
  • Unleashing the dogs of cyber-war on Iraq!

    Saddam Hussein could lose Internet access at the flip of a switch, and there's not much his geeks can do about it.
  • Play it again, scam

    Crimes shown backward, heroes sent back to high school, and yet another trip to the '60s. This week's lame new TV shows prove a trip down Memory Lane can be a snooze.
  • "0wnz0red"

    Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick: A new short story from one of science fiction's bright young stars.
  • A new teenage wasteland?

    Script kiddies, Web site defacers, chat-room gangsters: Today's digital troublemakers get a bad rap. But in "The Hacker Diaries" we learn that they're really all right.
  • Mozilla's revenge

    As the much-touted, long-delayed open-source browser nears the version 1.0 finish line, it may give AOL a new weapon against Microsoft.
  • How do you fix a leaky Net?

    Brian West says he was doing a public service when he pointed out a security hole in an Oklahoma newspaper's Web site. So why did the editor in chief call the cops?
  • Free Dmitry!

    A Russian programmer charged with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act languishes in jail. It's time to step up the pressure.
  • Blue screen of death

    In Jeff Deaver's latest thriller, "The Blue Nowhere," a killer hacks his victims' computers, invades their lives and lures them to their deaths.
  • The phantom cyber-threat

    We should stop worrying about computer terrorism and learn who our real enemies are.
  • Hacking the overmind

    John Sundman's nanotech thriller is a tribute to geekly passions -- and a warning of imminent disaster.
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