Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 123 - Results from #2440

Discover Hacks/Cracks News

Exploring Evil Angelica's Satirical Web Defacements and Commentary

data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20100%20100%22%3E%3C/svg%3E

Beginning around November 2000, a defacer known as "Evil Angelica" (EA) has consistantly defaced web pages with humorous material. While Attrition has never condoned defacing web pages for any reason, we often did get a laugh out of some of EA's defacements. Perhaps the most amusing and ironic was the "Bob the Ethical Burglar" defacement. An ongoing theme of EA has been taunting other defacer groups, often ridiculing their work or their (lack of) skills.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 05, 2001

Exploring Webjacking Risks and Email Scams Targeting Registrars

A webjacking is often accomplished by the webjacker sending a counterfeit email message to the registrar controlling a domain name registration. The counterfeit message appears to have been sent from someone with authority over the domain name, and the message instructs . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 04, 2001

Malware Exploitation: Unexpected Spammers and Their Impact

Several small Internet service providers have been shocked to see some of their most unlikely users turn into spammers. But it turns out the users are unwitting tools of a new virus that experts say is the first case they've seen of hackers finding a way to commercially exploit their skills.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 03, 2001

Impact of Denial-of-Service Attacks on European Cyber Threat Awareness

The high profile of such relatively inconsequential online political warfare as denial-of-service attacks and playful site defacement has the general public distracted from much graver risks. That's especially true in Europe, according to experts, where many Internet users are newer to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 03, 2001

Overlooked Insider Threats: A Call for Enhanced Security Training

Traditional security education is not working because most employees forget the most important rules at the most critical time." However, some companies may be focusing too much attention on external threats such as hackers, and ignoring the serious insider threats from . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2001

Businesses Turn To IT Experts For Security Amid Growing Breaches

Seemingly endless reports of new security breaches confirm that the mortar holding together the business world's walls of security is well and truly crumbling. But with e-business continuing to gain momentum, the inescapable burden of information security is . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2001

Exploring Ethical Hacking Lessons From Foundstone Training

If you want to stop hackers from invading your network, first you've got to invade their minds. That's the lesson the "white hat" hackers at Foundstone want network administrators to learn. A security consulting firm based in Irvine, California, Foundstone teaches . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 29, 2001

Cheese Worm: Security Debate Surrounds Self-Spreading Threat to Linux

System administrators worldwide recently reported signs that another self-spreading program, or worm, had started to infect Linux systems. The worm's existence has given rise to two schools of thought. One, which feels that the worm will help in securing the system . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 29, 2001

GRC.com DDoS Attack: Steve Gibson Shares His Experience

An interview with Steve Gibson and his recent experiences with a distributed denial of service attack. " As the Internet has become easier to use, it's also become easier to hack. It used to require serious computer expertise to shut down a Web site or launch a virus. Now it's easy. All a hacker needs is the right tools to cause online mayhem.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 28, 2001

Alldas.de: Defaced By ThePike - Online Security Risks Uncovered

A hacker going by the name of ThePike yesterday defaced Alldas.de - a site that tracks Web site defacements... A well-known Web site that tracks defacements on other sites by hackers such as PoizonB0x was itself defaced yesterday by . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2001

Alldas.de June 2001 Defacement: Insights and Impact of ThePike's Actions

On Tuesday June 26, 2001, a hacker named 'ThePike' managed to deface the European defacement mirror Alldas.de. Visitors to the site saw a modified news banner on the left side saying "ALLDAS GOT CRACKED! READ IT HERE". . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2001

IIS: Secret Exploit Tool Creates High Risk For Administrators

Security professionals are concerned that a program used by hackers to exploit a flaw in Microsoft IIS webserver has not been made public. They fear that the hackers are keeping the tool secret in a bid to launch further damaging IIS . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2001

Windows XP: Raw Socket Threat Assessment and DoS Concerns

My recent column ridiculing security specialist Steve Gibson's claim that raw-socket functionality slated for Windows XP is a major threat attracted more flames than I can hope to post on this page. Briefly, Gibson predicts that the ability of XP's raw . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 25, 2001

CIA Admits Challenges In Rapidly Evolving Cyber Threats

The CIA has admitted it is not quick enough to respond a hack attack. The CIA's top technology adviser says hackers are developing techniques quicker than the agency can keep up. Lawrence K Gershwin warned that a terrorist organisation could mount . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 22, 2001

Russia And China Develop Cyber Tools To Threaten U.S. Security

Russia and China appear to be developing computer-based tools with the potential to do long-lasting harm to the U.S. economy, a top intelligence official told Congress on Thursday. Such arms will give future foes new leverage over the United States, including . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 22, 2001

Lessons from Hackers on Evolving Threats and Government Security Risks

Malicious users worldwide have graduated beyond interrupting the bidding at eBay with distributed denial-of-service attacks--that's just low-hanging fruit. These days, hackers are more sophisticated and much more ambitious. They're gunning for the very infrastructure of our society by targeting government agencies, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2001

Combatting Cyber Threats With Innovative Defense Strategies

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

KGB-Backed Invicta Networks Claims Ultimate Security Solutions Amid Debate

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

Web Defacement Attacks on Security Firms in U.S.-China Cyber Conflict

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

California Power Grid Under Attack: 17 Days Exposing Security Flaws

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

Community Poll

More Polls

Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 123

SocksEscort Linux Router Malware Botnet Takedown Operation Lightning

Linux Users Targeted as Crypto-stealing Malware Hits Snap Packages

UNC2891: Banking Heists with Linux Malware Exploiting Physical Access