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Worried about hackers, companies flock to computer security firms to lock out dangers. If it's not a group of tech-savvy malcontents cracking into Internet powerhouses like Amazon and eBay, it's a smart-aleck Filipino kid scripting an e-mail virus, just because he . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2001

Computer security company to hackers: Bring it on

OpenHack III, a computer-hacking contest sponsored by eWeek magazine, will feature some stiff competition when it opens Monday. In one corner is Savoy, Illinois-based Argus Systems Group, maker of a computer security product called PitBull that the company claims is virtually . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2001

Group Says It Beat Music Security but Can't Reveal How

As part of an industry competition to test the security of a digital music copyright protection system developed by a group of entertainment and technology companies, Professor Felten was part of a group that says it successfully disabled the system. But . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2001

U.S.-based computer security company to host computer-hacking contest

Ladies and gentlemen, start your modems. OpenHack III, a computer-hacking contest sponsored by eWeek magazine, will feature some stiff competition when it opens Monday. In one corner is Savoy, Ill.-based Argus Systems Group, maker of a computer security product called PitBull . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 15, 2001

Teen plot to overthow the Internet?

A group of teen and young adult computer hackers allegedly planned an international conspiracy in which they hoped to ``take down the Internet'' on New Year's Eve, federal agents in Los Angeles said on Friday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2001

Wireless spam: How can it be stopped?

In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? Internet users have for years been complaining about unwanted email, or spam, with messages that promise everything from quick cash . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2001

'Pimpshiz' speaks--with pride

The law appears to have caught up with "Pimpshiz," the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with pro-Napster graffiti. On Friday, police investigating the Web site break-ins confirmed they had searched the Pleasant Hill, Calif., home . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 13, 2001

Los Alamos lab employee arrested for alleged hacking

A current employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's top nuclear weapons research facility, has been arrested on charges of computer hacking and tampering with a witness while a student, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 12, 2001

IRC: Attack From Killer 'HaX0rZ'

Probably the best account on what's been happening with Undernet. "But IRC channels are increasingly being hit with denial of service attacks that are severe enough to cause their service contracts with ISPs to be terminated and IRC servers to shut . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2001

Security guard hacks nuke plant

A security patrolman is believed to have hacked his way into computer networks at the Bradwell nuclear reactor in Essex near London and to have altered and deleted information, the Guardian Unlimited reported Tuesday. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2001

Top Level Domains: Winners and Losers, 2000

Over year 2000, Attrition.org recorded over 5800 defacements, over 2000 more defacements over 1999. Where did all of these defacements come from? Did any Top Level Domains manage to reduce their share of defacements over the last year in what can . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 08, 2001

Infamous Internet hackers become security consultants

Some of the Internet's most adept computer hackers are forming a multimillion-dollar security company to advise the world's largest banks and hospitals how to keep their data safe. Members of the Boston-based L0pht Heavy Industries, who once boasted to the Senate . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 05, 2001

Daily Cybercrime and Security Report

If you do business on the Internet, you cannot afford to be uninformed about the dangers and pitfalls that cybercrime poses. The following is a daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 05, 2001

Hacking: It's a mad, mad, mad new world

Several recent news items show that the new era is fast upon us-for example, the hostage-taking of some 55,000 credit card numbers at Creditcard.com. Not long before, a cracker was discovered to have been siphoning money into his bank account from . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2001

Are we ready for a cyber-UL?

Bruce Schneier's comments on a security Underwriters Laboratory. As always, a well-thought-out commentary well worth reading. " Second, network security is much too hard to test. Again, safes are easy. Breaking into them requires skill but is reasonably straightforward. Modern software . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 03, 2001

Hacker meltdown fails to materalise

The widespread fear of a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the holiday season thankfully failed to materialise, but security experts are still at odds over how serious the threat was. Fears about an attack similar to that which . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 03, 2001

Cracker offers defacement service

Web site defacement has come within the reach of everyday Internet users after a computer cracker known for defacing UK Web sites launched a scheme allowing anyone to take part in Web graffiti. The cracker -- known as Evil Angelica -- . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2001

Clinton Announces U.S. Is Signing International Criminal Court Treaty

Bill Clinton announced December 31 that the United States is signing the 1998 Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court, but said he will recommend that President-elect George W. Bush not submit the treaty to the Senate until "fundamental concerns are . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 01, 2001

Think tank warns that Microsoft hack couldpose national security risk

Although Microsoft Corp. has denied that the hacker who penetrated its network in October gained access to any of the company's source code, a recent report by a Washington-based think tank is warning that the compromise may hold grave national security . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 27, 2000

HNS Newsletter #43

This is a newsletter delivered to you by Help Net Security. It covers weekly roundups of security events that were in the news the past week. Visit Help Net Security for the latest security news. Issues covered include general . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 26, 2000

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Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

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

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