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Submission + - Chinese governemnt accused of hacking Congress (yahoo.com)

Submitted by Alotau on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @05:14PM

Alotau writes: Chinese hacking is getting some serious Congressional attention:

"Two House members said Wednesday their Capitol Hill computers, containing information about political dissidents from around the world, have been hacked by sources apparently working out of China. Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf says four of his computers were hacked. New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith says two of his computers were compromised in December 2006 and March 2007. The two lawmakers are longtime critics of China's record on human rights."

Submission + - X-rated tale infiltrates library's story hotline (contracostatimes.com)

Submitted by Alotau on Sunday May 25, 2008 @12:38AM

Alotau writes: It's unclear whether it was a remote hack or an simple inside job, but an explicit animal tale was made available to callers of a local library's story line. From the article: '[A] mother and her daughter unexpectedly heard a [raunchy] tale on Thursday when they called the Benicia Public Library's story line. Apparently someone had hacked into the library's dial-a-story service and replaced the fairy tale with a story more appropriate for the pages of a fetish porno magazine... fortunately her 6-year-old daughter is too young to understand what she heard and she wasn't forced to explain why a dog and a pig were being intimate with each other.'

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