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Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is fighting a lot of enemies right now, including at least one from an unexpected place: The computer underground. A hacker calling himself The Jester
Unknown attackers penetrated the server hosting the open source ProFTPD FTP server project and concealed a back door in the source code. The back door provides the attackers with complete access to systems on which the modified version of the server has been installed.
A COMPUTER hacker infected more than 2000 computers in Australia and overseas with a program to capture banking details, a court has heard.
The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week.
Computer hackers have broken into a state government website for the third time this year, exposing continued vulnerabilities in the state's digital security programs.
Google is working to patch a new data-stealing vulnerability that affects all versions of the Android operating system. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Thomas Cannon. "While doing an application security assessment one evening I found a general vulnerability in Android which allows a malicious website to get the contents of any file stored on the SD card," he said on his blog.
A computer hacker who calls himself "The Jester" claimed responsibility for the cyber attack which took down the WikiLeaks site Sunday, shortly before it started posting hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.
Michael Calce, the reformer hacker from Montreal who will forever be known as Mafiaboy, told a group of IT professionals yesterday that he has serious concerns about the inherent vulnerabilities in the latest evolution of information technology: cloud computing.
The head of a major cyber gang who targeted many UK homes and businesses has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Matthew Anderson, a 33-year-old security expert, was helping run a collection of cyber criminals known as the m00p group, who sent millions of malicious emails to both homes and businesses.
A federal grand jury Thursday indicted Lin Mun Poo, a 32-year-old resident and citizen of Malaysia, on charges of hacking into the Federal Reserve Bank, as well as possessing more than 400,000 stolen credit and debit card numbers. If convicted of the most serious offenses, he would face a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Three California men have pleaded guilty charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars.
A malware analyst has deconstructed a highly advanced piece of crimeware believed to be the work of the notorious Russian Business Network. The step-by-step instructions for reverse engineering the stealthy ZeroAccess rootkit is a blow to its developers, who took great care to make sure it couldn't be forensically analyzed.
An IT security researcher has reportedly released the source code that could allow a hacker to gain remote access to a Google Android smartphone across the internet.
For the past few weeks The Tech Herald has been tracking an interesting BlackHat SEO campaign. It targeted trending keywords and topics related to the midterm elections, Halloween, Veterans Day and more, snaring an untold number of victims in the process. So what are these attacks? How do they work? What can you do as a webmaster to avoid them or avoid falling victim to them?
With more than 600,000 copies of the FireSheep browser plug-in downloaded in a matter of weeks, Web security firm zScaler have released a new Firefox plug-in, BlackSheep, in hopes of combating attempts by those using FireSheep to try to hijack their Web session.
A security expert working at Alert Logic has published a demonstration back door exploit for smartphones running Android. Criminals could use the principles of this exploit to gain control of a phone and install trojans. A potential victim need only call a malicious web site for infection to occur.
The revelation 5 years ago that Sony BMG was planting a secret rootkit onto its music customers' Windows PCs in the name of anti-piracy is seen now as one of the all-time significant events in IT security history.
It'll take the London region's public school board more than three weeks to fix a privacy breach created in about an hour - way too long for a basic security feature, says one technology specialist.
The trojan attack on visitors to the Nobel Peace Prize web site reported on Tuesday, exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Firefox. No detailed information on the vulnerability is available at present, with access to the Bugzilla entry restricted to registered developers only.
Back in the 1990s fellow science and technology journalist Charles Mann and I wrote a book uncovering the true story of how a lone, young, cognitively impaired hacker with relatively few computer skills managed to perpetrate what was then the most extensive and scariest series of computer break-ins ever
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