High School Pals Targeted In FBI Hacktivist Probe | The Smoking Gun

AUGUST 10–A trio of high school buddies are among the targets of on ongoing FBI probe into an online “Anonymous” assault carried out earlier this year against web sites of Koch Industries, the conglomerate owned by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, the influential Republican benefactors, The Smoking Gun has learned.

In simultaneous raids last month, federal agents searched the Long Island homes of three teenagers who have excelled academically at Bellport High School on Long Island’s South Shore. Agents removed an assortment of computer equipment from the respective homes in connection with the criminal investigation being run from the FBI’s Kansas City field office (Koch Industries is headquartered in Wichita).

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Hacker Karsten Nohl to show ‘weak’ mobile network security from operators like T-Mobile, O2, Vodafone and E-Plus – The Economic Times

Nohl said he and a colleague, Luca Melette, intercepted and decrypted wireless data using an inexpensive, modified, 7-year-old Motorola cellphone and several free software applications. The two intercepted and decrypted data traffic in a five-kilometer, or 3.1-mile, radius, Mr Nohl said.

The interceptor phone was used to test networks in Germany, Italy and other European countries that Mr Nohl declined to identify. In Germany, Mr Nohl said he was able to decrypt and read data transmissions on all four mobile networks – T-Mobile, O2 Germany, Vodafone and E-Plus.

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