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Unknown attackers have compromised a large number of Linux and Solaris machines in high-speed computing networks at Stanford University, California, and other academic research facilities, according to a university advisory. . . .
Not only does this look like a good trend, it looks like a good time can be had by all! Here is a perfectly legitimite target for those who want to sharpen their computer hacking skills. The payoff? A potentially secure electronic voting platform. We believe that the fact that VoteHere has opened their source could ultimately result in a bulletproof ballot integrity system. . . .
Australian online Linux magazine, LinuxMagAu, had a brush with mortality after a mysterious attack on the server handling the core functions of the Web property. . . .
A security breach is likely to delay for several days tonight's (AEST) scheduled release of the next version of the popular GNOME open source desktop environment, a member of the release team said. . . .
A Raleigh, North Carolina cable news channel shut down a Web application designed to allow local schools and businesses to report weather-related closings last week, after a handful of puckish university students discovered they could use it to add textual graffiti to the station's newscast. Before the system was shut down, viewers tuning into Time Warner Cable's News 14 Carolina for updates on last week's record-breaking snow storm could read in the text ticker on the lower third of the screen that a company called "h4x0r3d Computer Services Inc." was among the business that would be shuttered the next morning because of the storm. . . .
A computer hacker broke into a state Employment Development Department computer last month, potentially accessing sensitive personal information of some 90,000 household employers and their employees - maids, nannies, cooks, gardeners and in-home care workers. . . .
A London teenager has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service for hacking into the computer system of a U.S. physics research laboratory to store his personal collection of music and film files. . . .
Johansen broke the CSS encryption scheme on DVDs - a case the Norwegian government finally let go - so he could watch a movie that he'd legitimately purchased on his Linux PC. Now millions of Linux users can do the same with iTunes locked music. . . .
Local and federal authorities including the FBI are investigating an intrusion into a computer network at an e-vote software company, which suspects the hack was politically motivated. . . .
There's no need to imagine a worst-case scenario for Internet security in the year 2010. The worst-case scenario is unfolding right now. Based on conservative projections, we'll discover about 100,000 new software vulnerabilities in 2010 alone, or one new bug every five minutes of every hour of every day. The number of security incidents worldwide will swell to about 400,000 a year, or 8,000 per workweek. . . .
Christopher Thompson, vice president of marketing at Network Associates, told ZDNet UK he was concerned about the number of companies -- especially in the UK and the Netherlands -- that admitted to not having protection against blended threats. These exploit an . . .
In the latest of what is becoming a string of high-profile attacks on Linux, someone broke into one of the servers used to distribute versions of Gentoo Linux on Tuesday. Officials at Gentoo Technologies Inc. on Wednesday posted a message in . . .
Experts agree on one point: As the popularity of wireless local-area networking gear grows for small businesses and consumers, break-ins on unsecured networks are likely to become more common and increasingly involve criminal activity, experts said. Wi-Fi shipments are expected to . . .
Too many IT administrators are taking their eye off the ball and allowing easy back-door entry into company systems, a leading computer forensics expert has claimed. In an interview with vnunet.com, Bryan Sartin, technology director at security service provider Ubizen, said that breaches are often the result of poor monitoring.. . .
Security pros gathering at a Stanford University Law School conference on responsible vulnerability disclosure Saturday harmonized on the principle that vendors should be privately notified of holes in their products, and given at least some time to produce a patch before any public disclosure is made. But there was pronounced disagreement on the question of whether or not researchers should publicly release proof-of-concept code to demonstrate a vulnerability.. . .
An unknown cracker this week compromised several machines belonging to the Debian Project, including servers that house the project's bug-tracking system and security components. Officials from the project said they discovered the intrusion within the last 36 hours and are still . . .
The National Police Agency (NPA) announced on Wednesday that they have exposed an Internet site of professional hackers with more than 4,400 members. The police filed arrest warrants for two members of the group, including the leader of the group who is suspected of having organized Wowhackers, a group of professional hackers. . .
A North Carolina man faces criminal charges after his attempt to expose the insecurity of his local medical facility's wireless network landed him in hot water with the authorities. Clayton Taylor Dillard, 29, an information security consultant, is accused . . .
Confirming what most enterprise IT administrators already know, a security firm on Tuesday released a report that concluded the Internet poses an increasingly more dangerous threat. According to Internet Security Systems' newest report, which tracked security events from July through . . .
A simple search reveals a plethora of resources, tools, and personal homepages, most claiming to "hack" for legitimate reasons, within the law.. . .
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