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These days, it doesn't take a computer expert to become a hacker. There are over 30,000 hacking-oriented sites on the Internet, offering easy to use click-and-hack programs and scripts for anyone to download. These easily accessible hacking tools have opened the door for a multitude of new exploits.. . .
Attacks on Linux and open source Web applications appear to have risen sharply this year, while attacks on Windows systems are markedly down. That's the conclusions of a study by security consultancy mi2g after it compiled a database on attacks . . .
A problem with Internet network security and integrity, especially in the European (RIPE) and Asia-Pacific (APNIC) regions, lies with the authentication methods that are used by these registries. Currently, when ISPs and other maintenance users wish to make changes to . . .
USAToday.com's home page was altered by a computer intruder late Thursday night, according to the company. Normal news headlines were replaced with prankish items, such as "Another shocking ruling from the 9th Circuit Court - Pentagon Unconstitutional?" The intruders struck at . . .
Sharp's Linux-based, business-oriented Zaurus handheld suffers from security holes that could let hackers grab private data off a corporate network, according to researchers at Syracuse University. In an advisory posted Wednesday to a Syracuse University computer-science Web site, researchers said they had found vulnerabilities in Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 and Zaurus SL-5000D handhelds.. . .
Simon Edwards sent in an article on what to do when your box gets hacked. "You've installed the latest firewall, patched every workstation with the new security updates and located every unauthorised wireless LAN in the building - but you've still been hacked. Do you call the police, fire your systems administrator, reinstall and pretend nothing happened?. . .
Internet managed security firm Riptech, Inc., has released volume II of its Internet Security Threat Report, showing that Internet attacks grew at an annualized rate of 64 percent in the period in the first six months of this year and provides what the Alexandria, Va.-based company calls the "first insight into U.S. designated terrorist states' cyber-attack volume and patterns.". . .
This is a follow-up to an article we posted a few days ago about inflamatory and libelous comments made by India Times about the well-regarded Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group. "According to this story at The Economic Times in India, the Cult of the Dead Cow (aka cDc) are nothing but a bunch of nogoodnick extortionists and terrorists, hacking their way willy-nilly through the networks of Indian companies in a massive scheme to wrangle loads of cash from them. . .
In the mid-1990s, New York's Citibank lost $10 million to Russian cyberbandits. The red-faced bank recovered all but $400,000, but lost millions more in high-profile business as a result of the negative publicity. While banks and other businesses don't publicize . . .
K Yatish Rajawat writes, "They're not terrorists of the shell and mortar sort. But in the wired space, names like Cult of the Dead Cow and LegionofDoom strike terror among network administrators. The Cult of the Dead Cow, for instance, is . . .
Barred by the terms of his probation from messing with computers, ex-convict hacker Kevin Mitnick has turned to writing about them, baring the tricks of his former trade in a forthcoming book. "It's not the Kevin Mitnick story," said Mitnick, 38, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., who served five years in federal prison. . .
Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that exploits a 2-week-old flaw to infect computers running vulnerable versions of the popular open-source Apache Web server application.. . .
Sex, Drugs, Money...How many of these words are common passwords on your network? The answer is probably too many. For beginners and even seasoned Linux security veterans, this should be something that needs to be consistantly checked. . .
California congressman is preparing a bill that would let copyright owners, such as record labels or movie studios, launch high-tech attacks against file-swapping networks where their wares are traded. Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., whose district includes Hollywood territory, said Tuesday that copyright owners needed new legal protections to combat online piracy.. . .
The latest case occurred Wednesday when America Online's AOL Search and its technology partner Inktomi began displaying thousands of search results that linked to a Web site based in Russia. Web spamming, a term used to describe how sites trump . . .
Contrary to popular misconception -- perpetuated through mass-market consensus and countless media sources -- hackers do not, by definition, break into systems. Setting aside the argument that categorical conflation works just fine for casual conversations -- in which you might . . .
Rouland [ISS, Inc.] said he didn't notify the developers of Apache because they aren't a formal company. Apache is open-source, meaning that the software and its blueprints are free and managed by programmers who coordinate its evolution. Complicating the matter, Rouland said he didn't trust Cox [Red Hat], who along with his Apache duties is the senior director of engineering at Red Hat Software, which distributes the Linux operating system. Rouland accused Red Hat of taking credit for earlier ISS research.. . .
Start with face recognition. The testers found that, depending on the particular system, they could fool it by holding up a photo of an authorized person. Further, these systems have to store pictures of authorized people to compare with whoever is . . .
Antivirus companies warned on Thursday of a new virus that communicates through digital images, but security experts aren't sure how much of a threat this latest evolutionary branch of malicious code poses.. . .
X-windows, with or without the font server (XFS) running can be crashed remotely via Mozilla when fonts are set to an unnaturally large size with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Tom Vogt of lemuria.org has reported.. . .
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