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The federally funded Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) reports that "incidents" -- which includes anything from a single host computer being hacked to hundreds of thousands of affected sites -- are on the upswing.. . .
The Recording Industry Association of America may not want people to share digital files, but the organization certainly seems to be in favor of open access to its website. On Monday, the RIAA site was hacked for the sixth time in six months. . .
Experts who discover and report security holes seem to be far more industrious than the malicious hackers willing or able to exploit those holes. Despite the thousands of hackable holes that lurk in e-mail, on websites, in files and operating . . .
At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain "Trojan horse" code this year. The three most commonly used packages affected were Sendmail, OpenSSH and tcpdump/libpcap. Others to be modified included BitchX, . . .
Now it's getting personal. A criminal trying to turn stolen personal data into cash has apparently seized on a new, low-tech method -- direct threats. A California teacher who had her identity stolen in early December managed to foil most of . . .
It was a breeze for 15-year-old Reid Ellison to hack into his high school's computer grading system. But what to do once he broke in took a bit more ingenuity. You see, Reid already has a perfect 4.0 grade point average at Anzar High School in San Juan Bautista, California. So to leave his mark, he decided to lower his grades to a 1.9 GPA -- a meager D+.. . .
A VETERAN CIO of a New York city-based financial services company learned in july 2002 that several vital files had vanished from one of his company's 25 servers. An employee had tried to find some information and failed. That's when IS . . .
BRITISH police are making a special plea to business to report computer crime after announcing a huge increase in the activities of hackers and Eastern European criminals. Detectives are so concerned they are even prepared to waive its mandatory obligation to prosecute in return for more information. . . .
Twenty-one years worth of living doesn't usually merit a biography. But hacker Ejovi Nuwere's new memoir is worth a read, not because it describes a particularly unique life, but because of its intimate look into the life of a technically inclined kid growing up in less than ideal circumstances. . . .
A few fairly simple practices would have prevented my successful attack on eWeek's OpenHack site. The bottom line is that application security can be attained, but it must be consistently applied and methodically checked to be effective. Rather than focusing . . .
Hackers are always on the prowl for weaknesses in your systems, but there are ways to beef up security so you don't become the next easy target. Hackers are finding new systems vulnerabilities and developing new means of attack all the time. What methods do they favour and how secure is your network?. . .
Security experts are warning computer users to be on the look-out for an insulting worm that can seriously harm a PC. Known as Winevar, the worm is spreading via e-mail as an attachment that infects computers running Windows. . .
Most firms have strategies to prevent their systems being attacked, but they should also develop policies on what to do in the event of a security breach to preserve evidence and prosecute the culprits, according to. . .
To victims, the data can mean everything. After a full-blown identity theft, many will spend months clearing up financial demerits from overdrawn credit cards and bad car loans, and spend years checking their credit reports. To Cummings, the data was worth . . .
An Internet attack flooded domain name manager UltraDNS with a deluge of data late last week, causing administrators to scramble to keep up and running the servers that host .info and other domains. The assault sent nearly 2 million requests per second to each device connecting the network to the Internet--many times greater than normal--during the four hours of peak activity that hit the company early Thursday morning, said Ben Petro, CEO of UltraDNS.. . .
A London-based fundamentalist Islamic cleric with known ties to Osama bin Laden said al-Qaeda and various other fundamentalist Muslim groups around the world are actively planning to use the Internet as a weapon in their "defensive" jihad, or holy war, against . . .
The University of Oslo had to change the passwords of 52,000 users and reinstall software on dozens of computers after crackers managed to infiltrate the network and extract the institution's central password file. The unknown computer vandals have had access to all of the usernames and passwords at the university for several weeks. In addition, the crackers (destructive computer experts, as opposed to hackers), have used university servers to store huge amounts of pirated software programs and films, VG Nett reports. . . .
Gary McKinnon, the Briton indicted this week for hacking into scores of U.S. military computers, left behind few clues on the compromised systems of his victims. But download log files from a Wisconsin software firm may have led investigators straight to his London door. . .
Security experts warn system administrators that rogue hackers have implanted spyware in the latest version of a popular open-source network-monitoring tool and its code library. The main Web site for downloading a popular open-source network-monitoring tool remained off-line Thursday following a revelation that rogue hackers had implanted spyware in the latest version of the software. . .
The download site for two very common Linux based utilities, tcpdump.org, was hacked into on Nov. 11, and the software available for download was modified to contain Trojan Horse code. This Trojan Horse, or "back door" software allows the hacker that wrote it to access any machine on which the modified software is run. . .
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