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Malaysian Indicted After Hacking Federal Reserve
wiredmikey sends along a security story that looks like it could be one to watch. Lin Mun Poo was arrested shortly after arriving at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport in late October, traveling to the US on business. The 32-year-old resident of Malaysia was observed by an undercover Secret Service agent selling stolen credit card data in a diner. After arresting him and seizing his laptop (which was "heavily encrypted"), authorities discovered evidence of far more serious security breaches. According to documents from the Department of Justice, Lin Mun Poo had hacked into the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and stolen over 400,000 credit and debit card numbers. Also, according to authorities, Mr. Poo managed to hack into FedComp, a data processor for federal credit unions, enabling him to access the data of various federal credit unions. He also hacked into the computer system of a Department of Defense contractor that provides systems management for military transport and other military operations, potentially compromising highly sensitive military logistics information.
He stole stolen credit card numbers? They ended up being twice stolen? And why was the Federal Reserve Bank harboring stolen numbers anyway?
You know that's not the plan.
Obligatory XKCD
http://xkcd.com/538/
>>>Privatize all gains and socialize all losses, thats the [Corporatist] Way (tm)
fixed that for you.
And of course both parties are corporatist.
(whispers)
aka fascist
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It kind of is. Can we stop putting things like this under "Your Rights Online"? The person was observed breaking the law in a restaurant, not online, and it sounds like subsequent searches were above the board and revealed some pretty egregious shit. He's also confessed to at least some of the charges.
Does Slashdot have a grouping named "People not yet convicted of breaking the law, but ehhhhhh, it really looks like they did"? Otherwise it looks like we're arguing that people should have a protection against being observed by the Secret Service when there's reasonable suspicion of illegality. This wasn't exactly warrantless wiretapping.
HI, MY NAME IS ISAAC.
It would appear the Mr. Poo, is in some really deep shit now....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
"'If a guy from Malaysia can get into networks like this, you can imagine what the Chinese and Russians ... are able to do' "
No racism there, except for extremely expansive gratuitously warped definitions of racism.
There are well-known large hacking rings in Russia and China. It is not difficult to imagine that many hackers working together are obviously a potentially larger threat than one hacker, assuming individuals of comparable skill and knowledge; the conclusions are obvious and have nothing to do with race.
There are some Malaysian hacking rings, but less well known to the public and the popular media.
Even if the more adept hackers happened to be in China, and it was stated, it wouldn't imply anything about race. As there are other factors involved, such as government being involved and promoting hacking, or there being stronger penalties for hackers in a country. The amount of technology available in a country, and the state of its economy and culture also effect such things.
In any event, Racism is defined as using power, for example, force, government authority, business decisions, or threat of violence/harm to promote the superiority of one race or to marginilize another.
Besides race there are a lot of differences between the culture and environment in Malaysia VS Chinese/Russian countries, ability to hide, and access to certain resources.
There is nothing in the article indicating the Malaysian race is somehow inferior, or evil, or that hackers of the Chinese/Russian race are superior, inferior, or more evil, ergo no racism.