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A third of UK businesses are leaving themselves exposed to hackers by failing to crack down on medium and low-level security flaws, according to the results of a network monitoring survey.. . .
Voicemail passwords are being transformed into all-access backstage passes that allow malicious hackers to exploit voicemail systems, racking up huge charges on their unlucky victims' phone bills.. . .
A pair of students were blocked by a federal court from presenting information at a Georgia security and hackers' conference on how to break into and modify a university electronic transactions system. Washington D.C.-based education software company Blackboard successfully convinced . . .
On the 23rd of March 2003 Zone-H reported the possible defacement "What we know is that Zataz has been proved reliable over the time so here we are reporting the news to you. We just hope this won't be another Mc-Williams-Vernon story..." of The White House. . .
Hackers claim to have compromised a computer at the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland. But their target was the least secretive organization imaginable within the massive intelligence agency: the public affairs office. . .
A crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack battered the Internet last evening, knocking several Uecomm links offline. The attack began at 6pm yesterday, and continued to cause disruption until 11am today. It is not yet known if Australian Uecomm . . .
A hacker claims to have stolen three security advisories from a corporate computer and posted them on a public mailing list, creating fresh dilemmas for users and software makers. A self-proclaimed hacker claims to have stolen three unreleased security advisories . . .
While driving to work on Interstate 405 Thursday, Mark Eppley checked his e-mail from his cellphone and saw a message titled "Break-in attempt." Eppley, the chief executive officer of Bothell software company LapLink, first thought that his business had been . . .
A group of computer hobbyists has resumed its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The Neo Project, a group that uses distributed computing techniques to crack security challenges, on Wednesday began offering software for its "Operation Project X." . . .
The public will get a rare glimpse into the computer underground next month when some of the country's most talented hackers and crackers gather in Sydney for the inaugural Ruxcon conference. Organisers say for too long the focus of computer security conferences has been on vendors peddling their products instead of sharing knowledge. . . .
Vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Sendmail and the Snort open source intrusion detection system IT departments suffered two serious vulnerabilities in enterprise-grade open source software systems last week. Top of the list was a newly reported vulnerability in Sendmail, which is a widely used mail transport agent (MTA). The second vulnerability was found in Snort, a popular open-source intrusion detection system (IDS). . . .
Six students at Fremont's Mission San Jose High School have been suspended for hacking into the school's computer and changing some of their first-semester grades. The investigation into the incident is ongoing, but the school believes all the students involved have been caught, Principal Stuart Kew said Thursday night. . . .
Internet registry RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) yesterday reported its services were back to normal, after it became the victim of a serious DDoS at the end of last month. All but a tenth of traffic sent to RIPE failed to . . .
Hackers broke into a University of Texas database and stole the names, Social Security numbers and e-mail addresses of more than 55,000 students, former students and employees, officials said. A preliminary evaluation found no evidence the information was used to . . .
A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list on Tuesday that can take advantage of a major vulnerability in the Sendmail mail server. . .
"In New Zealand there is no law against hacking." I've been hearing this statement since about 1985. At first, like many, I accepted it was true. But lately I've come to realise it's a lie. And that behind the lie . . .
The border gateway protocol, a widely used technology for efficiently routing data through the Internet, is rife with security holes and needs to be replaced, a security consultant warned.. . .
Well-known computer hacker Jodi "VeNoMoUs" Jones has pleaded guilty to hacking an internet service provider in yet another case that appears to have been handled smoothly by the 42-year-old Crimes Act. Jones yesterday pleaded guilty in the Manukau District Court, . . .
A credit card transaction processing company last week confirmed that millions of card numbers were stolen recently when someone hacked into its computers. But it defended itself by saying the culprits may not have obtained any useful information. . . .
AFTER five days learning how to enter networks illicitly, 12 more white-hat hackers have joined the growing ranks of IT experts who think and act as the bad guys do.Heightened security concerns have led to a jump in demand for consultancy Ernst & Young's eXtreme Hacking Course, a master class for network professionals employed by major corporations, government departments, law enforcement agencies and IT firms. . . .
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