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Hacker vigilantes strike back

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With the rapid increase in security breaches leaving law enforcement struggling to keep up, some organizations are taking the law into their own hands and punishing hackers themselves. Striking back at hackers with, for example, denial of service attacks is a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 19, 2001

Ultimate in Internet security or anti-hacker hype?

A security firm headed by a former KGB agent has come under fire for claims its forthcoming products provide the ultimate solution to computer security problems. Invicta Networks, is developing security products that attempt to foil cracking attacks by using constantly . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 19, 2001

Hackers Aim at Computer Security Sites

One expert said computer security companies are likely hacker targets simply because they claim they can provide security. A Web defacement group active in the U.S.-China hacker conflict earlier this year has turned its sights on computer security firms, hitting . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2001

Hackers Hit Computers Running Calif.'s Power Grid

A computer system that controls much of the flow of electricity across California was under siege from hackers for at least 17 days during the height of the state's ongoing power crisis, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The cyber attack . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 10, 2001

SourceForge, Apache hacker: Nothing personal

With the sniffer, Fluffy Bunny captured logon IDs and passwords for other sites, then installed Trojan horses at each new site. Exodus declined to comment on Fluffy Bunny's claims. Fluffy said that he did not write his own exploits, he merely took advantage of known bugs with existing exploit code.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2001

Scientists Sue to Publish Piracy Paper

A team of academics asked a federal court Wednesday for permission to publicly reveal how they cracked an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry. Princeton University researchers headed by professor Edward Felten filed the challenge in order to present their . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2001

A Matter of Trust: How Apache.org Was Compromised

As you've probably heard by now, Apache.org was broken into last week, and the system was compromised. How this happened is much more interesting then your usual "known hole in an old piece of software" scenario (although this was the final . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2001

Desirable Undesirables

They're a brash, fun-loving lot who revel in their notoriety as two-time champions of Capture the Flag, the Daytona 500 of the computer underground. They also enjoy a measure of renown as hosts of a celebrated bacchanal-a combination trivia contest and . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 05, 2001

Cowboy cracker nails Apache

The cracker who broke into the Web servers of open source development site SourceForge has broken cover to boast of his exploits, and brag he also compromised the systems of the Apache project. Fluffy Bunny defaced a Web site (themes.org) to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2001

Hacking threat rises with high-tech layoffs

When someone cracked Slip.net's computer system, altered customer accounts and deleted important databases, the Internet service provider didn't need to look far to find the attacker. It wasn't a criminal outfit seeking credit card numbers, and it wasn't a scrawny whiz . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2001

SourceForge.net shell server compromise

This notice contains official details provided by the SourceForge.net team. On Tuesday, 22 May, 2001, the security was compromised on one of the SourceForge.net project shell servers. Security and data integrity has since been restored and SourceForge.net services are currently online . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2001

Crackers target open source software websites

Open source software portal Sourceforge has published details of the server compromise that forced the group to reset all its users' passwords. The postmortem follows news today that another open source portal, themes.org, had also been struck down . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2001

Apache Software Foundation Server compromised, resecured

Earlier this month, a public server of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) was illegally accessed by unknown crackers. The intrusion into this server, which handles the public mail lists, web services, and the source code repositories of all ASF projects was quickly discovered, and the server immediately taken offline. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2001

Forced Attrition

One of my favorite bookmarks is attrition.org. Offering computer security candor often wrapped around a raised middle finger, Attrition is best known for hosting the Web's largest collection of defacement mirrors. But no longer. The site recently announced it . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2001

Proxy exposes Excite@Home data

A single misconfigured server exposed broadband provider Excite@Home's internal corporate network to hackers for at least three months, making its customer list of 2.95 million cable modem subscribers accessible to anyone with a web browser and a modicum of cyber smarts . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 30, 2001

Linux hackers fall victim to crackers

The servers of open source development site SourceForge have been compromised. Active subscribers to the site, which is owned by VA Linux, received the following terse message from its administrators. "This week, one of our systems was compromised. We have promptly . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2001

Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk

Wurzler found that system administrators working on open source systems tend to be better trained and stay with their employers longer than those at firms using Windows software, where turnover can exceed 33 percent per year. That turnover contributes to another . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 29, 2001

A 'White Hat' Goes to Jail: Updated

Max Butler lived three lives for five years. As "Max Vision," he was an incredibly skilled hacker and security expert who boasted that he'd never met a computer system he couldn't crack. As "The Equalizer," he was an FBI informant, reporting . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 25, 2001

Small Office Scene: Are Hackers Spying on You?

Even if you run your business from a spare bedroom, hackers and computer pranksters from around the world are probably trying to break into your computer systems. Sound implausible? Well, it's not. Some may simply send a virus on the Internet . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 25, 2001

18th Century warfare to fight Internet crackers

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) calls for a fresh approach to protect credit card details from Internet crackers. According to the SIIA, many businesses today implement an 'eggshell' security model: hard on the outside and soft in the centre. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2001

Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

Threat Actors Are Actively Using Pupy RAT Malware to Attack Linux Systems

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Raises Serious Security Concerns