Password Hackers Are Slippery To Collar

By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 7, 2009

When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com.

...such services as YourHackerz.com are still active and plentiful, with clever names like "piratecrackers.com" and "hackmail.net." They boast of having little trouble hacking into such Web-based e-mail systems as AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail, and they advertise openly.

And, experts said, there doesn't appear to be much anyone can do about it.

Read the entire article by Tom Jackman

Join SVUGA webmaster Maury Green at this month's WebSIG meeting on TUESDAY, September 29th and learn some of the tricks webmasters are using to fight the scourge of hackers and spambots.