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The huge number of day-to-day attacks that websites suffer has been revealed with the aid of two fake banking sites. Over an eight-week period the two dummy websites, one with a firewall and one without, suffered thousands of attacks.. . .
Hello, ProFTPD community. The ProFTPD Project team must make the following announcement: X-Force Research at ISS () has discovered a bug in ProFTPD's handling of ASCII translation. An attacker, by downloading a carefully crafted file, can remotely exploit this bug to create a root shell.. . .
Dan Verton, the author of The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who currently writes for Computerworld and CNN.com, covering national cyber-security issues and critical infrastructure protection. . . .
UK based mi2g has said that said during August, 67 percent of all successful overt digital attacks were against computers running Linux OS. Microsoft boxes, meanwhile, accounted for just 23.2 percent of overt attacks, the company said. In real terms, mi2g . . .
Linux, not Microsoft Windows, remains the most-attacked operating system, a British security company reports. During August, 67 per cent of all successful and verifiable digital attacks against on-line servers targeted Linux, followed by Microsoft Windows at 23.2 per cent.. . .
In what appears to be a scam of a different kind, an email is doing the rounds offering people 10 percent of the money deposited in their bank accounts by outsiders. The email starts off. . .
Lamo, 22, turned himself in at the U.S. courthouse in Sacramento, Calif., ending a five-day manhunt during which FBI agents staked out his family's home in the Sacramento suburbs and his defense attorney painstakingly negotiated terms of the surrender with federal . . .
FBI agents armed with a federal arrest warrant out of New York were searching for Adrian Lamo Thursday, SecurityFocus has confirmed. Lamo has been charged in New York under Title 18 U.S.C. 1030 and 1029, according to deputy federal public . . .
Adrian Lamo, the so-called "homeless hacker" responsible for a series of high-profile electronic intrusions over the last two years, is negotiating a surrender with the FBI over criminal charges.. . .
Issuing an egregiously overbroad subpoena for stored e-mail qualifies as a computer intrusion in violation of anti-hacking laws, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, deciding a case in which a litigant in a civil matter subpoenaed every single piece of e-mail . . .
About half of Americans fear terrorists will launch cyberattacks on the large networks that operate the banking, electrical transportation and water systems, disrupting everyday life and possibly crippling economic activity, according to a survey conducted by Federal Computer Week and the . . .
Osirusoft, one of the largest anti-spam blacklists, has been shut down by its operator following a barrage of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that have crippled the service. Services such as relays.osirusoft.com have come under fire recently for . . .
A design flaw in a router product has seen the University of Wisconsin's network bombarded with network time protocol synchronisation requests, in an accidental denial of service (DoS) attack. The university's administrators noticed a dramatic increase in in-bound traffic to . . .
The GNU Project has apparently dodged a major bullet since the FTP server housing its source code was root-compromised by a cracker in March. Bradley M. Kuhn, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, the Boston-based sponsor of the GNU . . .
A computer hacker gained access to private files at Acxiom Corp., one of the world's largest consumer database companies, and was able to download sensitive information about some customers of the company's clients, the company said Thursday.. . .
An ethical hacking contest at the annual DefCon conference in Las Vegas is aiming to promote better security practice. The Root Fu contest pits eight teams - including some experts from US federal agencies - against each other in a . . .
Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they . . .
The last few months have seen the revelation of a rash of critical vulnerabilities in a wide variety of software, from Oracle Corp.'s database packages to Windows to Cisco Systems Inc.'s IOS code. And if 2003 is to be remembered for . . .
Hackers using well-known vulnerabilities are "overwhelming" companies and remote working will make matters worse, security vendor Internet Security Systems (ISS) has warned. The vendor's Internet Risk Impact Summary Report for the second half of this year predicts that hackers will target . . .
The organisers of last weekend's hacking competition have declared a team from Brazil as the winner. The results were posted on Defacers-challenge.com, showing Brazilian defacement crew 'Perect.br' as the clear winner with 152 points, more than double that of its nearest rival. . .
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