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The escapades of larger-than-life German Netrepreneur Kim Schmitz made him a cult figure. Now they've landed him in jail. Eight months before the indictment, Kim Schmitz saw it coming. As German authorities closed in on the one-time hacker and Internet . . .
Despite the near-ubiquity of firewalls and antivirus software, hacker attacks and viruses are causing more damage to computer networks every year, according to a survey by San Francisco's Computer Security Institute and the FBI. . . .
Computer security expert Chad Harrington regularly surfs Internet Relay Chat (IRC), one of the oldest chat technologies on the Web. The IRC networks have names like Dalnet and EFnet, but he agrees that another name works just as well: eBay for hackers. . . .
An FBI survey reveals that computer hackers have attacked most large corporations and government agencies; more often and more frequently they do not inform authorities of the breaches The survey released Sunday discovered about 90 percent of respondents detected computer security breaches in the past year but only 34 percent reported those attacks to authorities. . . .
"This is a big one, and relates to how SOAP::Lite dispatches method calls at runtime, and how Perl executes dynamic method calls. The very best thing you can do is take down your SOAP servers until an update is available.. . .
A 25-year-old anarchist who goes by the moniker "Dr. Chaos" is not only accused of being a potential cyanide-terrorist. The FBI also believes that Joseph Konopka, charged with illegally possessing sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide, is a nefarious computer hacker with ties to 2600 magazine. . . .
The study , a joint project of the Computer Security Institute and the FBI's San Francisco computer crime squad, painted a dire picture. Ninety percent of the 540 respondents surveyed detected computer security breaches in the past year, and the 44 percent who were willing or able to name a dollar figure claimed a total loss of $455.8 million dollars to hack attacks. . . .
Internet-based threats rose significantly in 2001 and continued to climb through the early months of 2002, according to a new report. Traditional incidents such as virus and Denial of Service attacks remained at or above previous levels, but automated scripts against common vulnerabilities are now the most significant online risk, said Internet Security Systems (ISS).. . .
Network managers have slammed BT for taking too long to respond to the security gaffe caused by its publication of a database of private network dial-up numbers. "It was a ready-made resource for hackers for almost a year," he said. "You . . .
A group of Chicago Web site operators say they will break into school, government and corporate computers and alter records, for fees starting at $850. But at least one security expert thinks the operation probably is a scam. . . .
Bottom line: No product you can buy will protect you completely from the most serious threat to your network and your business. That's not what you want to hear after laying out six figures to arm yourself with firewalls, antivirus software, and intrusion-detection applications, is it? Nevertheless, forewarned is forearmed, and there is something you can do to fight this threat. . . .
The courts may someday treat recreational hackers with a gentler justice than malicious intruders and cyber thieves, depending on the results of a study being spearheaded by a member of the government commission responsible for setting federal sentences. . . .
Big insurers are now offering policies against hacks, viruses, and stolen data. They may also set security standards. This broad rubric covers policies that address threats new to the Digital Age, including virus attacks, denial-of-service assaults, cracking into company systems, and Web-site defacements.. . .
Businesses beefing up network-security measures these days still worry more about viruses and the antics of renegade hackers than international terrorists, according to a new report from In-Stat/MDR. A survey by the technology market research firm suggests that attacks on . . .
For a few years now, a security vulnerability called "cross-site scripting" has been receiving widespread attention. This problem is particularly insidious because it arises from a simple and very common oversight. Tens of thousands of server-side programs have this problem, and no programming language or development tool is exempt.. . .
The number of flaws reported in firewalls have rocketed by nearly 50 per cent over the past four years because IT pros don't know how to configure them. A report by security testing specialist NTA Monitor found that flaws in firewalls . . .
There's one way to prove that security is a necessary IT expense: hire hackers to successfully break into your own network. CFOs are treating security as a cost item to be controlled--and in some cases, even eliminated. That's the buzz at . . .
Leading this Security Alerts is a java runtime vulnerability. "In this column, we look at a local root vulnerability in Webmin; a bug in BSD-based TCP/IP stacks; a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment; buffer overflows in listar, Imlib, and Open . . .
CFOs are treating security as a cost item to be controlled--and in some cases, even eliminated. That's the buzz at the recent CeBit trade show. Despite IT managers wanting to spend more on security, CFOs are putting the brakes on . . .
A security breach Tuesday involving Verisign's Network Solutions unit disrupted potentially thousands of domain customers, company officials confirmed today. Attackers compromised a system that hosted thousands of "parked" domains that had been registered through Network Solutions and were still under construction, . . .
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