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Cyberspace can be an exciting place these days. But, unfortunately, it can also be a dangerous place, especially if you're unaware of the dangers and how to protect yourself. So we at "CyberCrime" thought we'd offer some tips and ideas for staying safe online.. . .
Handheld computers are increasingly vulnerable to hacker attacks and should not be trusted to store "any critical or confidential information," security experts warned Thursday. Peiter Zatko, chief scientist and a vice president of @Stake, a Cambridge, Mass.-based security-engineering firm, and Joe . . .
Hackers will be challenged to penetrate a variety of computer networks early next month with no threat of punishment if they are successful, a network security firm said yesterday. Parinya Homanek, managing director of Net En Tel Co Ltd, said the . . .
In a final effort to sway Microsoft, a security researcher has released a new tool that he says proves Windows XP is unsafe. Steve Gibson, president of Gibson Research Corporation, today posted on his Web site a free utility called SocketToMe. . . .
Hackers trying to beat government security on the public information Web site of the Los Alamos National Laboratory instead succeeded primarily in denying chemistry students access to a free posting of the periodic table. A hacking group that calls itself Poisonbox . . .
A group of high-powered Internet security experts took their laptops to dinner on Saturday and between courses began analyzing the virulent new worm that now threatens the Web, the researcher who hosted the gathering said Monday. Analysts from Microsoft, Symantec, Computer . . .
Attrition.org, a Web site that leaped into world fame for its mirror defacement section, went through a couple of eventful moments this year. The first occasion was one of its own making, with the decision to discontinue the presentation of mirrors, . . .
On Tuesday, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) issued an advisory that servers running the Berkeley Software Design (BSD) operating system were vulnerable to the flaw. But less attention has been paid to a possible legal battle brewing behind the scenes between TESO and a prominent security mailing list owned by security firm SecurityFocus.com. . . .
The defacer known as 'Fluffy Bunny' defaced Attrition.org this morning around 7am MDT. S/he replaced the main page with a single image. S/he is recently known for defacing the SANS Institute (www.sans.org), Exodus Communications Security Page (), Apache, SourceForge, Stileproject and no doubt others.. . .
DEF CON, which began as a relatively small get-together for members of the IS underground, has grown in recent years to become the world's largest and most publicized annual gathering of the diverse groups that comprise Information Systems Security. But despite . . .
A delegate hacked the conference network and was given an award. This is typical of the Defcon conference which attracts enthusiasts and saboteurs alike, says Simon Edwards. The crowds that descended on Las Vegas's casinos, strip clubs and all-you-can-eat restaurants last weekend were a little different from the norm. They were a little more troublesome, too.. . .
A newly discovered vulnerability affecting many UNIX-based computers is providing fertile ground for Web site attackers. Since a buffer overflow bug in the Telnet program shipped with most operating systems built on code from Berkeley Software Design Inc. was publicized last week, hundreds of Web sites running the operating system have been defaced.. . .
Millions of people accessing the internet through broadband cable connections risk having their computers taken over by malicious hackers, vnunet.com can exclusively reveal. Israeli Security Company Checkpoint revealed today that the devastating security vulnerability is caused by the shared architecture of . . .
Jesus Oquendo, aka Sil, who maintains the quirky site AntiOffline, has been convicted of computer trespass and eavesdropping, sentenced to 27 months in a minimum security federal jail and ordered to pay $96,385 in restitution. He reports on Monday to serve . . .
Jesus Oquendo, aka Sil, who maintains the quirky site AntiOffline, has been convicted of computer trespass and eavesdropping and sentenced to 27 months in a minimum security federal jail and ordered to pay $96,385 in restitution. He reports on Monday to . . .
When the FBI arrested a Russian programmer this week on charges of criminal copyright violations, the government unwittingly ignited a powder keg of outrage. Web pages immediately sprouted to demand the release of Dmitry Sklyarov, who was visiting the United States . . .
Argentinian security firm Core-SDI created a storm of controversy when it unveiled an 'intelligent' hacking tool which automates system penetration. The as yet unnamed tool, showcased at the Def Con and Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, is capable of scanning . . .
The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody Monday at his hotel in Las Vegas for publishing software that cracks a variety of methods used to secure e-books and thus, according to the bureau, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. . . .
Procedural mistakes, and not some new security bug, were likely the cause of the defacement last week of the Web site of the SANS Institute, according to sources close to the organization. The computer security research and education group restored its Web site Sunday evening, after its home page was replaced Friday by an attacker using the name "Fluffi Bunni.". . .
Cybercops say computer crime incidents more than doubled last year, creating a virtual crime wave across computer systems all over the world. More than 21,000 incidents, up from nearly 10,000 in 1999, were reported in 2000 to Carnegie Mellon University's Software . . .
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