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VoIP Applications: Risk of Botnet Control And DoS Attacks

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Internet telephone applications like Skype and Vonage could become hacker hideouts, technologists and academics funded by MIT and Cambridge University say. Internet telephone applications like Skype and Vonage could become hacker hideouts, a group of technologists and academics funded by MIT and Cambridge University said Thursday. According to the Communications Research Network (CRN), voice-over-Internet (VoIP) software could give perfect cover for launching denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 01, 2006

Matthew Mellon Court Appearance In Hacking Investigation with 17 Defendants

Matthew Mellon, heir to a £6.6 billion banking and oil fortune, will appear in court next month in connection with an investigation into an alleged phone-tapping and computer hacking gang. The former husband of Tamara Mellon, who runs the Jimmy Choo shoe empire, will appear alongside 17 other defendants accused of involvement in the operation, which allegedly provided clients with confidential information about wealthy people and businesses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2006

Security Training And Diversity by Dan Geer at Shmoocon 2006 Keynote

Dan Geer’s keynote was one of my favorite talks from the con. He believes that “if people respect you enough to have you deliver a keynote, respect your audience enough to write it out

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2006

Jeanson Ancheta Pleads Guilty to Military Computer Hacking Charges

A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to surreptitiously seizing control of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers and renting the zombie network to people who mounted attacks on Web sites, served up pop-up ads and sent out spam.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2006

Auckland Court Discharges Sahil Gupta In Voicemail Hacking Case

Sahil Gupta, the second man charged over the Telecom voicemail hacking incident in April, walked free from an Auckland court last week. Gupta was charged along with a teenager who cannot be identified for legal reasons. The teen was charged with unauthorised access of a computer system and pleaded guilty. Gupta was charged under the same section of the Crimes Act and faced up to two years in prison.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2006

Hiring Hackers to Enhance IT Security and Identify Flaws

In the days of increased reliance on the Internet, hackers are making computers increasingly unsafe. To counter that, IT security firms are turning around and hiring talented hackers to find security system holes. Sebastian Schreiber's face lights up with a mischievous grin and his eyes gleam with excitement as he talks about computer hack attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2006

Nigel Roberts' Landmark Spam Lawsuit Against Media Logistics in the UK

Chartered engineer Nigel Roberts became the first person to win a court judgment over a company's breach of the UK's anti-spam law late last year. His success received widespread media coverage – and now he's encouraging others to do the same. Roberts sued Media Logistics (UK) Ltd, a marketing firm based in Falkirk, Scotland, for sending him unsolicited emails about contract car hire and fax broadcasting businesses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 06, 2006

Exploring DNS Name Prediction: Attack Strategies and Target Lists

As discussed in “Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2006

Netherlands Uncovers 1.5 Million Device Botnet Linked To Extortion

Dutch prosecutors who last month arrested a trio of young men for creating a large botnet allegedly used to extort a U.S. company, steal identities, and distribute spyware now say they bagged bigger prey: a botnet of 1.5 million machines.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 22, 2005

TippingPoint: Reward Program For Reporting Security Flaws

It seems we exaggerated the innovation of Com/TippingPoint’s controversial Zero Day Initiative. The scheme pays vetted researchers to report vulnerabilities to the company in a responsible way, thereby avoiding these holes getting into the public domain and being exploited by criminals and hackers before patch has been written.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 15, 2005

Linking Chinese Military To US Cyber Attacks Evidence Of Espionage

A systematic effort by hackers to penetrate US government and industry computer networks stems most likely from the Chinese military, the head of a leading security institute said.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 14, 2005

Browser Teams Collaborate on Security Threats and Defense Strategies

Security developers representing four of the major browser firms have met up to discuss how to combat security threats. Techies working on Internet Explorer, Mozilla/FireFox and Opera teamed up with the folks from Konqueror to discuss how to combat security risks posed by phishing, aging encryption ciphers and inconsistent SSL Certificate practices. A surprising amount of consensus emerged through the informal meeting, hosted by Konqueror's George Staikos in Toronto last week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 24, 2005

Peter Francis-Macrae Jailed for Six Years Over Email Scam

Peter Francis-Macrae, 23, of St Neots, Cambridgeshire, was jailed at Peterborough Crown Court this week after being found guilty of fraudulent trading, threatening to destroy or damage property, making threats to kill, and blackmail. In a six-week trial, the court heard how Francis-Macrae had tricked thousands of businesses into sending him money to register a dot-eu domain name on their behalf.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 21, 2005

Gmail Authentication Issue Fixed After Hackers Breach Accounts

Google said Wednesday it has fixed a problem in its widely used email program that allowed hackers to break into people’s Gmail accounts to read messages and pose as legitimate email users. Security researchers in Spain exposed a flaw in the way Google authenticates its users, allowing the breach in the system that counts more than 5 million users.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2005

RainbowCrack Online Subscription-Based Hash Cracking Service Launch

Over the past two years, three security enthusiasts from the United States and Europe set a host of computers to the task of creating eleven enormous tables of data that can be used to look up common passwords. The tables--totaling 500GB-- form the core data of a technique known as rainbow cracking, which uses vast dictionaries of data to let anyone reverse the process of creating hashes--the statistically unique codes that, among other duties, are used to obfuscate a user's password.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2005

Proactive Strategies for Cybersecurity Against Black Market Hackers

The recent arrest and 17-count indictment against 20-year-old accused hacker and botmaster Jeanson James Ancheta for both using and selling the tools to attack a number of networks, including some within the Defense Department, should be taken as a shot across the bow by anyone who reads this. Ancheta is accused of being part of a new breed of criminal hacker: not just in it for the fame--sure, he's getting his 15 minutes, although it could be more like 50 years--but rather after money. According to the charges against him, Ancheta even managed to collect nearly $60,000 by creating, spreading, and selling bots to the highest bidders. By all accounts, Ancheta is smart and motivated, and there was a market for his black-market guerrilla hacking tactics and tools. How do you stop a smart, motivated attacker from making your life miserable?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2005

UK Court Rules Denial of Service Attacks Are Not Illegal

A judge has ruled that denial of service attacks are not illegal under the UK's outdated Computer Misuse Act. A teenager charged with launching a denial of service (DoS) attack against his former employer escaped punishment when the judge threw out the charge after his defence successfully argued that DoS attacks were not covered by the parts of the act he was charged under.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 04, 2005

Strategies For Protecting Enterprises Against Cyberattacks

"The Air Force and the Pentagon are extremely attractive targets and so the publicity acts as a draw for hackers," said Frost & Sullivan industry analyst for network security Rob Ayoub. "As far as a lot of smaller companies go, there's always a risk but they have a reasonable amount of security through obscurity."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2005

Evolving Hacking Motivations Influencing Modern Cybersecurity Threats

Threats to information security come in all shapes and sizes, and from all directions: blended threats, mass-mailer worms, Trojans, phishing attacks, spyware, keystroke loggers, etc. Every day, one or more of these threats put critical information at risk in Internet-connected corporations and businesses around the globe.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 11, 2005

Learn Hacking Skills Online With Interactive Training Techniques

Now you can learn hacking in the comfort of your own home. Training company Learn Security Online (LSO) teaches hacking techniques online at a low cost. LSO teaches computer security with interactive simulators, hacking games, and security challenges that require students to break into real servers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2005

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