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Protecting Small Businesses From Elite Hackers In Cyber Challenge

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Imagine if you just graduated with an IS degree and landed a job at a small business as their only IT staffer. You know your way around an operating system and understand some of the protocols and programs that keep data flowing, but for the most part your skills are untested in the real world. Regardless, you are the only thing separating the company's users and data from downtime. Sound like a tough situation? Oh, I forgot to mention there are four of the best hackers in the world trying to get into your digital domain and steal anything of value, including a database of 10,000 credit card numbers. This isn't something seasoned administrators would want to face, much less fresh graduates.

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Las Vegas Conferences: Security Experts Join Forces With Hackers

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The middle-aged G-men who wear crisp suits and consort with teenage hackers sporting purple hair can make the two conferences that will converge in Las Vegas this week look like a scene from a science-fiction movie. In fact, the gatherings are the most important in the world of computer security, drawing a "who's who" list of leaders from companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc., government agencies including the FBI and underground groups that act as a neighborhood watch for the Internet. The motley band of researchers, federal agents and cyberhobbyists come to learn how to fortify networks against the latest attacks, share research on new vulnerabilities and recruit people in a field where competition for talent is growing increasingly fierce.

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HOPE: Jello Biafra Addresses FBI Arrest during Keynote Speech

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The final day of the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in New York celbrated the hacker spirit -- an upbeat finish for an audience still in shock from Saturday's surprise FBI arrest of invited speaker Steve Rambam. Jello Biafra, former lead singer of iconic punk-rock band the Dead Kennedys and an outspoken speaker on politics, began his keynote speech on Sunday talking about the arrest. Biafra, a speaker at several previous HOPE conferences, remarked that the conference felt more "spook-heavy" than previous ones. "I don't think that's necessarily bad," he said. "I think it's important to come face to face with people who have a lot of power."

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Citibank Phishing Alert: Spoofing Two-Factor Authentication Risks

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Security experts have long touted the need for financial Web sites to move beyond mere passwords and implement so-called "two-factor authentication" -- the second factor being something the user has in their physical possession like an access card -- as the answer to protecting customers from phishing attacks that use phony e-mails and bogus Web sites to trick users into forking over their personal and financial data

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IT Professionals Weigh In on Gary McKinnon Extradition Debate

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A poll of over 500 IT professionals has found opinion is split over whether a British man should be extradited to the US for allegedly breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers. Gary McKinnon, a computer enthusiast from North London, is alleged to have hacked into computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA. British Home Secretary, John Reid, signed the order approving the extradition on July 6th. In an online poll of 565 respondents conducted by online security firm Sophos, 52 per cent said McKinnon should not be extradited, while 48 per cent said it was correct for him to face a US court.

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Debian: Security Advisory on Internal Server Compromise and Lockdown

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The Debian GNU/Linux project today admitted a hacker had compromised one of its internal servers. "Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org," Debian developer James Troup wrote in an e-mail to the Debian community shortly before 4am AEST. "We've taken the machine offline and are preparing to reinstall it," Troup continued, noting a number of key services were currently offline as a result. The developer said Debian had initiated a security lock-down on most of its other servers, enforcing limited access to the resources.

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Debian: Gluck Compromise Leads to Service Lockdown and Security Measures

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Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org. We've taken the machine offline and are preparing to reinstall it. This means the following debian.org services are currently offline: cvs, ddtp, lintian, people, popcon, planet, ports, release Based on the results of our initial investigation we've locked down most other debian.org machines, limiting access to DSA only, until they can be fixed for what we suspect is the exploit used to compromise gluck. We're still investigating exactly what happened and the extent of the damage. We'll post more info as soon as we reasonably can.

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