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Not all people that send undesirable email (spam) are the same. Their motives differ as greatly as their tools and technical abilities. This document uncovers a spam gang who seeks to acquire your banking information, and the response from one of the targeted victims: Citibank. . .
When most people catch a computer virus it usually makes them much more diligent and update their anti-virus software more often. But when computer security researcher Sarah Gordon was hit by a virus it did not just make her worry . . .
In a post earlier today to the Linux kernel mailing list, BitMover founder Larry McVoy [interview] commented, "Somebody has modified the CVS tree on kernel.bkbits.net directly. Dave looked at the machine and it looked like someone may have been trying to . . .
el statico submits There's a "Fake Players Bug" that can affect multiplayer games like Half-life, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. An attacker can fill a game server with a custom number of inexistent players (1 player is "emulated" by . . .
Companies should stop hiring hackers to beef up security - not for ethical reasons but because they are no good at it, according to experts. Delegates at the RSA Security Conference in Amsterdam heard a panel of reformed hackers, police officers, members of the legal profession and corporate security experts launch scathing attacks on the abilities of most hackers.. . .
Police have arrested a 17-year-old Brazilian boy living in Tochigi Prefecture on suspicion of violating the Unauthorized Computer Access Law, the police said Friday.. . .
RSA Security Inc. has released survey findings that identified denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and computer hacking for the purpose of information theft as the top two security concerns for US CSOs. However, the survey indicated that only limited security measures are being taken against these threats by most companies.. . .
It is any CIO's worst nightmare -- a malicious attack on your organization's critical data, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars in customer assets and proprietary information -- not to mention irreparable damage to your company's hard-won reputation.. . .
He runs with the name "Low Voltage" and is the don of South Africa's underground movement of techno trouble-stirrers who could, with the click of a mouse, cause your company to fall into the 90% bracket of enterprises which will suffer . . .
Despite the proliferation of high-profile attacks and a spate of recent worm and virus outbreaks European businesses are still not heeding the warning to properly protect themselves.. . .
A criminal element from Russia may be responsible for the recent spate of spoof emails that have attempted to con online-banking customers into revealing their account details.. . .
Brian Callagher submits qmail is a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete, written by Dan Bernstein, who also has a web page for qmail. qmail is a secure package. You can download qmail 1.03 (Redhat RPMs, Mandrake RPMs, . . .
The British teenager accused of an electronic attack on a major US port was a member of a "hacker's alliance", a court heard yesterday. Aaron Caffrey, 19, told Southwark Crown Court that he was a member of group called Allied . . .
Internet use is still growing fast, but so is Internet-based fraud, according to security vendor VeriSign Inc., which examined data from its own infrastructure services between August 2002 and August 2003.. . .
An expert witness has undermined the hacking suspect's claim that he was framed for an Internet attack on a major US port. An expert witness in the case of a teenager accused of accidentally launching a distributed denial of service . . .
A Princeton graduate student said on Monday that he has figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer -- simply by pressing the Shift-key.. . .
A British teenager allegedly brought down the Internet systems of a major US port while attempting to extract revenge on a fellow IRC user, a court heard today.. . .
The entire source code for the much-anticipated Half-Life 2 has been leaked to the Internet, according to a security expert. Copies of the source code began trading wildly on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channels last night and apparently followed a sophisticated attack on the network of Valve, the company behind Half-Life. . .
By the age of 20, Benjamin Breuninger's life was a mess. Estranged from his mother and stepfather, a dropout with no job and months behind on his rent, he often went a day or more without eating.. . .
The head of an Internet security company that claimed to have found dangerous loopholes in U.S. military computers has been indicted on charges of hacking government networks for financial gain.. . .
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