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Hackers posing as employees of the Ford Motor Credit Company have in recent months harvested a trove of 13,000 credit reports -- a virtual one-stop shop for fraud and identity theft -- with data on consumers in affluent neighborhoods across the country. . . .
Companies using fingerprint readers to increase security now have to worry about a new threat: the gummy finger. A Japanese researcher presented a study on Tuesday at the International Telecommunications Union's Workshop on Security in Seoul, Korea, showing that fingerprint readers can be fooled 80 percent of the time by a fake finger created with gelatin sporting prints lifted from a glass, for example.. . .
The FBI executed search warrants against two former online vandals it believes to be the members of "patriot" hacking group the Deceptive Duo, CNET News.com has learned. Agents confiscated computer equipment from Robert Lyttle, previously convicted of defacing dozens of . . .
With proper setup and administration, viruses in Linux are the least of your worries, but you still need to worry about Windows clients that connect to your Linux servers. I have been looking at anti-virus programs, designed to run on Linux servers, that can keep viruses from infecting Windows clients on the networks I administer. . . .
The hacker underground appears to be moving away from targeting Microsoft, as May turns out to be a hot month for attacks on open source security. Security watchers warned this week that May has seen a dramatic increase in defacements on Linux boxes, most noticeably on those from German speaking domains. . . .
Hacker group Deceptive Duo targets government and corporate sites all in the name of patriotism. The pair recently granted TechTV an email interview. Given the limitations of an email interview, the only way TechTV can confirm the Deceptive Duo's credibility is . . .
Even for the FBI, it was an audacious sting, reports CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews. With the help of some new computer spying software, FBI agents were able to out-hack a pair of Russian hackers who had stolen thousands of . . .
The nightmare for Ecount, an online gift certificate service, began last year when a hacker broke in to the company's system and stole personal information belonging to its customers. Nine months later, the criminal is still at large. The thief . . .
Hardcore geek publishing house O'Reilly & Associates recently exposed their database of approximately 100,000 online users to outsiders, courtesy of a Web coding slip-up that their techie customer base might scoff at.. . .
A crew of hackers who claim an interest in protecting national security remained at large last week after a round of high-profile defacements that included government and bank Web sites as well as a site belonging to Gartner Inc. The Deceptive Duo early this month hit the Stamford, Conn., IT research company's site. . .
Two weeks ago, the hacker known as the Deceptive Duo broke into the Web server of one of the U.S. Navy's databases, publishing materials never meant to see the light of day. Last Friday, a Navy server database housing e-mail addresses and phone numbers of top Navy and White house brass was breached using the same vulnerability and posted on a Web site. . . .
Argentina's Supreme Court wants legislation to outlaw computer hacking after rights activists allegedly vandalized its own Web site but escaped punishment because no law covers digital attacks. A federal court threw out a case in April against a group of hackers, known as the "X-Team," who were charged with defacing the site in 1998 with accusations the South American nation's top judges covered up the murder of a journalist. . . .
A "CYBER jihad" could be launched against the West as terrorists moved from the real world to an internet-based virtual world, a US expert warns. Michele Zanini, a consultant with the think-tank McKinsey and Company, said terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda were already making huge use of the web for communications, propaganda, recruitment and target data. . . .
A woman calls a company help desk and says she's forgotten password. In a panic, she adds that if she misses the deadline on a big advertising project her boss might even fire her. The help desk worker feels sorry for her and quickly resets the password -- unwittingly giving a hacker clear entrance into the corporate network. . . .
From a pitiable 56kbps AOL dial-up somewhere in suburban Colorado, 19-year-old Myko Hein would like to tap out this sad, regretful message to the powers-that-be at his former cable Internet provider, AT&T Broadband: I was wrong. It'll never happen again. Please take me back. . . .
It's no secret. In addition to the U.S., at least six countries are known to be actively developing information warfare programs designed to cripple the IT, economic and military infrastructure of their potential adversaries. However, a classified CIA warning, which detailed China's plans to launch cyberattacks against U.S. business and military networks and was made public late last month, grossly misrepresents the threat to those responsible for protecting government and private IT networks in the U.S., experts said last week. . . .
Two weeks ago, I challenged you to figure out how a machine was compromised. Let me quickly recap the situation. I suspected that someone was using an SSH man-in-the-middle package on the local network. Both sshmitm (part of Dug Song's dsniff[1] . . .
Mocking the efforts of a defacement team known as the "Deceptive Duo," an online vandal who refers to herself as "Evil Angelica" has stuck at least two Web sites since Monday. The tongue-in-cheek attacker, calling herself "The Mystical Mono," replaced the . . .
A pair of hackers who have been penetrating U.S. government computer systems across the country say they're trying to call attention to vulnerabilities in national security. But analysts say they're probably nothing more than publicity seekers. . . .
Government and private computer networks are facing new threats of terrorist attacks, ranging from an attempt to bring havoc to a major city to nationwide disruptions of finances, transportation and utilities. But people with knowledge of national intelligence briefings say little has been done to protect against a cyberattack. . . .
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