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SyS64738 submits, Today, February 23rd the website of the company Defensive Thinking belonging to famous hacker Kevin Mitnick has been re-re-re-redefaced. This time for political reasons.. . .
Using a combination of trade tricks and clever programming, hackers have thoroughly compromised security at America Online, potentially exposing the personal information of AOL's 35 million users. The most recent exploit, launched last week, gave a hacker full access to Merlin, AOL's latest customer database application.. . .
Citibank is trying to get an order in the High Court today gagging public disclosure of crypto vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities mean that bank insiders can almost trivially find out the PINs of any or all customers. The discoveries happened while Mike and I were working as expert witnesses on a `phantom withdrawal' case.. . .
The hacker who breached a security system to get into credit card information had access to about 5.6 million Visa and Mastercard accounts, far more than originally announced, the two card associations told CNN Tuesday. Monday, Visa and Mastercard said . . .
A security flaw at FTD.com left private information open to harvesting this week, one of the busiest of the year for the online florist. The flaw allowed a person to use a modified "cookie" to easily access customer information from the . . .
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper discovers a moth trapped between relays in a Navy computer. She calls it a "bug," a term used since the late 19th century to refer to problems with electrical devices. Murray Hopper also coined the term "debugging" to describe efforts to fix computer problems. . .
The federal investigation into last week's attacks on major Web sites has reportedly turned to at least one anonymous programmer believed to have written software that may have been used in the assaults. A programmer known only as "Mixter," who . . .
Manchester resident Lance W. Roberts and his family started a computerized business to help local oil-distribution companies keep track of deadbeat customers, then transformed it into an early e-commerce company. In late January and early February 2000, the Vernon-based company, . . .
Do you want to know how Mitnick got defaced? The true story behind the hack. To deface Mitnick's site it was enough to go on your windows desktop, create a new webfolder and name it with . .
"Dear Kevin, welcome to the free world. In order to let you feel more comfortable, we defaced your website PS: your security skills are a little rusty, arent' they?" This was the meaning of the message posted by hacker BugBear . . .
Fueled by the old myth that "you can't get a virus in Unix" and by the increasing popularity of Linux and FreeBSD, Unix viruses passed an important milestone in 2001 and continued by receiving even more attention during 2002. . .
An Internet worm unleashed on Saturday impaired key systems in the U.S. government and private sector, delaying operations at one major airline and several media organizations, and knocking banks' cash machines offline. . . .
Care to register a .mil Web site of your own for free? The DoD has gone out of its way to make it a snap. An unbelievably badly-protected admin interface welcomes you to register whatever domain you please ( anyone?), or edit anything they've already got. The interface is so ludicrously unprotected that it's been cached by Google and fails to mention that you must be authorized to muck about with it. Incredibly, default passwords are cheerfully provided on the page. Following an anonymous tip from an observant Reg reader, we've encountered the page in question in the Google cache, and after a bit of our own poking about have also discovered an equally unprotected (and Google-cached) admin interface encouraging us to add a new user, like ourselves, say, which requires no authentication. All you have to do is find that page and you can set yourself up with a user account, manage your new .mil Web site, fiddle about with other people's .mil Web sites, and generally make an incredible nuisance of yourself. We are, of course, straining against every natural, journalistic impulse in our beings by neglecting to mention any useful search strings with which to find it.
This is disturbing stuff. Pakistani cyber criminals are having a field day hacking nearly 40 to 50 Indian websites every month. Prodigious 18-year-old `ethical hacker' Ankit Fadia, who has given consultancy services to intelligence agencies, defence departments, government and private organizations including FBI and CBI, said he had recently submitted a `25-page white paper' to the government detailing the addresses of the Pakistani hackers, who call themselves ``hactivists'. . . .
A security researcher has revealed a little-known vulnerability in many locks that lets a person create a copy of the master key for an entire building by starting with any key from that building. The researcher, Matt Blaze of AT&T Labs-Research, . . .
The appearance and spread of viruses throughout the tech-enabled world is rapidly becoming par for the course for home and corporate users. However, occasionally, a virus contains a more interesting wrinkle than being named after a tennis player or teen-punk . . .
"Gobbles", the German hacker who improbably claimed to have infected peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to "0wn" your computer this week, has confirmed that his brag was a hoax. That much, you probably suspected, as Goebbels (as we must now call him) failed to offer a shred of evidence in support of the notion that the RIAA was engaged in widespread intrusion of personal computers. . .
A wisecracking group of hackers confirmed its claim this week that it spread an antipiracy virus was nothing but a hoax aimed at garnering fame. But members of the group, known as Gobbles Security, conceded that a program it released . . .
Hack-proofing a website is hard enough. But the task becomes gargantuan when you accidentally publish the administrator's password on one of your site's most heavily trafficked pages. . .
Things are looking good for Kevin Mitnick. In 2000, he completed a five-year prison term for computer crimes; this January, 39-year-old Mitnick will have his probation restrictions lifted. So Mitnick, probably the world's most notorious hacker Latest News about hacker, is on the verge of once again being free to use his computer.. . .
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