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James Middleton from vnunet wrote in to let us know "Yesterday's posting by hacker IceKool concerning the activities of notorious defacement group World of Hell (WoH) has been revealed as a hoax." The truth seems to be that the . . .
Notorious website defacement group World of Hell (WoH) issued a warning to the internet community last week as one of its most prominent members went on a hacking spree. Current WoH front man 'RaFa' has notched up over 500 defacements since . . .
A Norwegian teen-ager who became a global hacker hero for bypassing the code on Hollywood's DVD films has been indicted on charges of committing a data break-in, police said Thursday. Jon Lech Johansen was 15 when he wrote and distributed a . . .
It has emerged in the last week that another of those rare Linux viruses may be on the loose. And this one has strong similarities to October's Remote Shell Trojan (RST) that was largely dismissed by the Linux community. In a . . .
An online credit card processing company grudgingly admitted Thursday that a cache of passwords apparently stolen from its own system has resulted in hacker break-ins at hundreds - maybe thousands - of other servers across the Net. And some Internet . . .
As reported by a subscriber to the incidents mailing list at . "It appears that perhaps tens of thousands of username/passwords for valid shell logins ALL ACROSS THE NET may have been compromised at CCBILL, a large internet credit card/check processor used for e-commerce and adult sites, read carefully!!". . .
Bored with initiating traffic-flooding attacks that take down Web servers, hackers are focusing on router vulnerabilities that could let them divert large amounts of traffic to Internet wastelands, security experts warn.. . .
A few days ago I watched a live hacking demo at the University of Sussex in which a company showed how easy it was to access a large number of credit card numbers on a supposedly secure ebusiness site. The demo took 15 minutes and involved an arsenal of tools easily available on the internet. As the independent security consultants I-Sec made Swiss cheese of the website's firewall, many of the delegates' jaws dropped - mine included.. . .
A 20-year-old computer hacker who last weekend alerted telecommunications giant WorldCom Inc. about security holes he uncovered inside the company's network (see story) said he enters corporate Web sites without permission to satisfy his curiosity. Adrian Lamo, who has a publicized . . .
Kevin Mitnick says he never intended to spend part of an evening chatting pleasantly with the federal prosecutor who put him behind bars. The 38-year-old convicted cracker (turned cause célèbre, turned conference pundit) showed up at the National Press Club on . . .
Internet backbone provider MCI WorldCom has acknowledged that network-intrusion specialist Adrian Lamo used a security hole in a company Web server to grant himself access to its administrative network. The quizzical hacker poked around WorldCom's system four times over the past . . .
The onslaught of the Windows Goner worm warns us to watch for Christmas Grinches, but next year the warning may extend to Linux users as the operating system (OS) becomes more of a target.. . .
Experts last week showed how to put together a wireless hacking kit for less than £1,200. Speaking at NetEvents, Jan Guldentops, director of Better Access Labs, demonstrated how a hacker could create the kit using "any old laptop, an antenna, GPS, . . .
The bad news is that denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are becoming more numerous on the Internet. Not only are DoS attacks more frequent, they are more potent with the potential to do much greater harm than they've done to date. The good news? Right now, according to experts, there isn't any.. . .
Banner ads promoting a notorious group of computer attackers known as Fluffi Bunni today appeared at SecurityFocus.com, after the hackers compromised a server operated by the leading security firm's advertising partner. The ad banner depicted the hacking group's mascot, a pink . . .
A vulnerability in the most widely used FTP server program for Linux has left numerous sites open to online attackers, a situation worsened when Red Hat mistakenly released information on the flaw early, leaving other Linux companies scrambling to get a fix out.. . .
Last month, without much fanfare, Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center released a white paper on current trends in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. While much of the report merely chronicles the alerts and warnings the organization has published over the last two . . .
Vendors have been warned that a flaw in Unix could allow hackers to take control of their systems Six vendors including IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems have been alerted about a flaw that could allow hackers to take control of Unix . . .
Can you remember your last hacking experience? Perhaps it was carving a pathway through the Amazonian rain forest during your gap-year trek? Or was it a Sunday morning spent wrestling with the shears in an effort to make your garden-privet resemble . . .
LOCUSTS.ORG, a group of young Filipino hackers, wants to set up a non-profit organization that will help Philippine authorities make the Internet more secure in this country. Composed of students and system administrators currently either doing freelance or full-time work, Locusts.org . . .
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