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Articles Written by: KEVIN POULSEN
Who is This?
Kevin Lee Poulsen (born 1965 in Pasadena, California, U.S.) is a former black hat hacker. He is currently a senior editor at Wired News.
PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco-based computer intruder was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison Friday for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — receiving the longest hacking sentence in U.S. ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
12 Feb 2010
It was the decade of the mega-heist, when stolen credit card magstripe tracks became the pork bellies of a new underground marketplace, Eastern European hackers turned malware writing into an art, and a nasty new crop of purpose-driven computer worms ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
31 Dec 2009
Flashback, early 2008: Citibank officials are witnessing a huge spike in fraudulent withdrawals from New York area ATMs — $180,000 is stolen from cash machines on the Upper East Side in just three days. After a stakeout, police arrest one man walking ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
21 Dec 2009
A Russian man was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for a phishing attack that diverted $100,000 in U.S. tax refunds to bank accounts under his control.
Maxim Maltsev, 24, of the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, ran the caper while he was living in ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
8 Dec 2009
AOL customers who sprang for the company’s $10 “PassCode” security tokens to harden their accounts can get ready to toss their fancy crypto-numeric keyfobs in the same landfill as all those CD-ROMs AOL mailed them in the 1990s.
As the Virginia-based ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
4 Dec 2009
The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
“Text pagers are mostly carried by persons operating in an ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
25 Nov 2009
Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers.
Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
19 Nov 2009
Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes.
Reports that hacker-extortionists triggered at least one blackout outside the ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
7 Nov 2009
Police in Romania this week swooped in on 19 members of an alleged international ring of bank-card skimmers that’s been active in Switzerland, Italy, France and the United States, according to local reports.
Romania’s national Directorate for ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
6 Nov 2009
The hackers looting bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses around the county are hitting new victims every week, and have now racked up approximately $100 million in attempted losses, the FBI said Tuesday.
“The infection vector has not been ...
From KEVIN POULSEN,
Wired,
3 Nov 2009
