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Kevin Mitnick: Exploring Autism Traits and Their Impact on Hacking

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Casual viewers may have noticed Mitnick's mannerisms -- a twitchy lack of poise, inability to look people in the eye, stunted formality in diction and obsessive interest in technology -- but Grandin saw something else: possible signs of Asperger syndrome, or . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 30, 2001

SuSE Kernel Update: Clarifying Misconceptions On Backdoors And Security

Roman Drahtmüller send this message to the suse-security-announce mailing list in regards to an April Fools joke that some people are taking a little bit too seriously. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 29, 2001

Comprehensive Overview of Noteworthy Security Breaches and Hacks

Internet security returned to the forefront of Web issues this week, with a couple of high-profile hackings, security breaches, and an identity theft that involved the world's biggest software maker. Among the most prominent and potentially destructive were two digital certificates . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 24, 2001

German Company Organizes $5,000 Hacking Competition at CeBIT 2023

A German computer security firm is inviting hackers to break into its products live at this year's CeBIT computer fair. Wibu will place its reputation on the line by asking a group of "ethical" hackers to crack a file scambled with its encryption technology.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 22, 2001

Qrpff Tool's Impact on DVD Security and Legal Challenges

The consonant-friendly program Qrpff was developed by a student at MIT to be used as an argument at a seminar on the legal intricacies of DeCSS, but now the tool is cropping up all over the internet. Qrpff is a seven-line . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2001

Jeff Baker's Insights on Ethical Hacking and Network Security

Jeff Baker hacks into corporate computer networks for fun - period. Baker, a 24-year-old systems programmer, is part of a group of computer experts who spend their free time trying to figure out potential Internet security threats to large networks. Over . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2001

FBI Warns Of Anti-Hacking Tool 'Stick' Disabling Detection Systems

The Internet crime division of the FBI issued a vaguely-worded warning last week about an alarming new tool soon to be available to computer criminals. But the tool's author has promised not to publish it for months, and is already working . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 19, 2001

Exploring Back Doors and Cyber Exploits in Software Security

A "back door" is a secret method of gaining access to a computer by taking advantage of some undocumented feature or bug. When hackers discover flaws in closed-source software, they often exploit them to gain access to confidential information, or to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 15, 2001

Exigent Software: Hackers Breach Military Systems Impacting Satellites

US government contractor Exigent Software Technology has admitted that unidentified hackers broke into a restricted military computer system and stole the source codes controlling satellite and missile guidance systems. Hackers got away with two thirds of the code when the target . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 15, 2001

Smallest CSS DVD Decoder By Charles M Hannum Achieves High Performance

Coder Charles M Hannum has created the smallest program capable of decoding a Content Scrambling System (CSS) DVD file, beating last week's seven-line Perl shell script 442 bytes to 472 (excluding newline bytes). Hannum's C program, called efdtt, is no slouch, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 14, 2001

InTether: Innovative Self-Destructing Software for Digital Media Protection

A small Austin start-up run by intelligence community alums is parachuting into the burgeoning, post-Napster, copy-protection market with a remarkably thin, invisible software product that claims to offer nearly invincible armor for music, video, film and e-books alike. But the most . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 13, 2001

DoS Tactics Debate: Electrohippies Challenge Cult of the Dead Cow

The Electrohippies take on Cult of the Dead Cow in hacking legitimacy dispute A row has broken out between UK Internet activists, the Electrohippies, and US ethical hacking group, Cult of the Dead Cow, over whether Denial of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 13, 2001

Bibliofind E-Commerce Data Breach: 98,000 Credit Cards Compromised

Watch out for those 'hackers'. "Are the hackers getting better, or is it just that the people in charge of security at big Web companies are nodding off on the job? Online shoppers have reason to wonder after another in a series of intrusions into e-commerce sites that were supposed to have the best security money could buy.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2001

Windows NT E-Banking Advisory: Major Data Theft By Hackers

Okay, NT content, but this SANS information can't go unnoticed. In the largest criminal Internet attack to date, a group of Eastern European hackers has spent a year systematically exploiting known Windows NT vulnerabilities to steal customer data. More than a million credit cards have been taken and more than 40 sites have been victimized.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2001

Hacktivism: The Ascendancy of Digital Political Protest

Hacktivists have officially moved from nerdish extremists to become the political protest visionaries of the digital age, a meeting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London will be told on Thursday. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 08, 2001

Enhancing Personal Video Recorders: Hacking For Better Functionality

"Breaking Seal Voids Warranty" - to most people, this little sticker affixed to consumer-electronics hardware might as well be a law of nature. They plug in their gadget and turn it on but would never dream of opening it up. To . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 07, 2001

2600 Australia Calls For Secure Systems To Honor Charity Pledge

Hacker advocacy group 2600 Australia has called on a Perth company to honor its promise to donate $US1 million to charity after its network security device remained uncracked after a 30-day public trial. Secure Systems, which has developed a hardware-based network . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 07, 2001

Survey Findings: Increased Security Postures Following Major Breaches

A major security breach within a company is the single greatest catalyst for effecting increased security measures across that organization, according to the results of a recently released survey from IDC in Framingham, Mass. Other big drivers of increased security measures . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2001

Understanding Identity Theft Risks And Cyber Safety Strategies

dentity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes in the country, and there's no doubt that the Internet makes it easier. But while some argue that sequestering personal information from the Web is the only solution, I have seen the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2001

One-Third of E-Commerce Shopping Carts Susceptible to Price Manipulation

An estimated one-third of all shopping cart applications at Internet retailing sites have software holes that make them vulnerable to the price switching scam, said Peggy Weigle, chief executive of Sanctum Clara, Calif. For example, a major PC manufacturer sells a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2001

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