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Australian hackers have taken the practice of looking for open wireless networks to new heights. Before now many curious hackers have taken to cars and bicycles to look for wireless network nodes that are free for everyone to use or . . .
In today's environment no organisation which makes a commitment to using the internet as a commercial or communication tool is safe from attack, particularly with an increasingly mobile workforce. Despite today's security systems becoming ever more sophisticated it is actually getting . . .
When hackers broke into Ryan Russell's server and plastered his private e-mails and other personal files on the Internet last week, Russell tried to shrug it off as a harmless prank. But Russell, editor of Hack Proofing Your Network and . . .
A presentation at Blackhat last week by Tim Mullen of AnchorIs, offering a novel treatment for the Nimda worm, has caused considerable controversy because it involves taking unauthorized actions against the offending box. . .
NASA cybercrime investigators are looking into the theft of militarily significant design documents pertaining to the next generation of reusable space vehicles. The documents, which are restricted under current export laws from being shared with foreign nationals or governments and are . . .
A finding that 11 students at the University of Technology, Sydney, had paid to have fail marks deleted from the record had shown that all NSW universities were vulnerable to mark tampering, the corruption watchdog said yesterday. After a year-long . . .
In a dim section of the main ballroom at the Alexis Park Hotel, hackers were trying to break into the computer systems of current stock market favorite Weiss Labs. A mix of teenagers to thirty-somethings, the hackers at the Defcon . . .
Striking back against a computer that is attacking you may be illegal under United States law, but a security researcher says people should be allowed to neutralize one that is unwittingly spreading destructive Internet worms. . .
Striking back against a computer that is attacking you may be illegal under U.S. law, but a security researcher says people should be allowed to neutralize one that is unwittingly spreading destructive Internet worms such as Nimda.. . .
At a typical Wells Fargo branch here, employees and customers do business each day oblivious to a beehive of activity in the basement. There, five blue-walled rooms serve as makeshift classrooms for other tenants in the building who are light . . .
The war against hackers is entering a new phase. In the UK and the US, behind the walls of usually bland-looking buildings and shielded from wireless hacking by lead-lined walls, the stuff of Hollywood films is being played out across giant . . .
A Houston computer security analyst has been charged with hacking after demonstrating the insecurity of a county courts wireless LAN. Stefan Puffer, 33, was indicted by a Grand Jury on Wednesday with two counts of fraud for allegedly breaking into Harris County district clerk's wireless computer system. It's believed to be the first case of its kind in the US.. . .
Yale is threatening to sue Princeton after officials at the rival Ivy League college allegedly hacked into Yale's Web site to gain unauthorised access to its admission decisions. According to Yale Daily News, Princeton staff gained unauthorised access. . .
I've been hanging on to several excellent flames relating to an article called Security industry's hacker-pimping slammed and another called 'Hacker' security biz built on FBI snitches , in hopes that Sir Dystic, slammed in a speech at H2K2 by Gweeds (and covered in both), would contact me. He's done so and he denies flatly any suggestion that he's ever worked for Microsoft, as Gweeds claimed. His is the first letter posted below.. . .
Barry "The Key" Wels picks locks for the sport of it, but also to make a broader point. He fiddles with tumblers and cracks safes for fun, and to alert the security industry to the weaknesses of many locks, which serve as a bulwark of society's physical safety. Locks, whether keyed or combination, melt like butter in his hands. . . .
A flaw found in newer versions of the PHP Web server scripting language could allow attackers to crash, and in some cases control, computers over the Internet, an open-source developer group announced Monday. The vulnerability affects versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 of PHP, according to the PHP Group.. . .
In a further attempt to enable defenders to learn from the hacking experience itself, The Honeynet Project, which was established by a group of computer security researchers, set up the Reverse Challenge. The test was to make a full analysis of. . .
Indian sympathizers have wormed their way into the official Pakistani web site, launching a subtle denial-of-service attack. Sophos reports that this is the most recent in a series of politically motivated virus attacks, this time using the Yaha-E worm, which. . .
The frightful genius of steganography, though, is that, by design, you don't know when it's being used. Independent researchers have devised numerous methods to search for signs of its proliferation on the Web, and some have reported that they've found nothing, and there's consequently no reason to be afraid. But when you think about these studies, the results become about as comforting as homeland security advisor Tom Ridge's color-coded alert system.. . .
On Monday I reported a speech by Gweeds at H2K2, in which the grand hypocrisy of hackers weaseling their way from the scene to the mainstream by forming security outfits was denounced very nicely. A torrent of e-mail denouncing him soon followed, some of which I've posted here.. . .
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