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I'm sitting at my desk, having a cup of coffee and a toasted bagel when I notice this young, blond, pimply-faced kid standing outside my cube with this smirk on his red, puffy-cheeked face. I ask him what I can do . . .
In the basement of an old farmhouse deep in the Norwegian countryside, a 15-year-old computer geek named Jon Lech Johansen pecked out the finishing touches on a piece of programming that had been keeping him busy after school. Jon says . . .
Hackers defaced Nintendo's European website and nine of its German sites on Sunday as part of an attack that gained access to 300 websites with either German or top level domain extensions.
A top Microsoft executive revealed yesterday how a hacker was able to view some of the company's top-secret source code last October, shedding light on a notorious attack that raised concern worldwide about network security. A hacker gained broad access because . . .
Web surfers are in a tug-of-war for control of their home page settings, fighting off increasingly aggressive tactics by Net businesses and online marketers aimed at commandeering first rights to consumers' browsers. Unsuspecting consumers who install software, open attachments or merely . . .
I had meant to do an update to my previous high profile summary of sorts. After drinking a Corona I began working on this post and it hit home yet again. Half way through writing this, another server on Hewlett Packard's network was defaced. I don't know what I find more ironic, that four HP servers were defaced this month, or that in each case they were running Windows NT or Linux instead of HP-UX (their own unix operating system). Toward the end of this list are two sites that also strike a bit of irony.. . .
In the recent defacement of the NY Times business site, the defacer from "Sm0ked Crew" included an apology to Attrition that has resulted in a flood of mail to Attrition staff asking for clarification. Attrition staff frequently endures abuse from script-kiddy groups who are under the misguided belief that we work for them. We have been harassed and chastised if we are slow in posting a defacement or if we happen to miss one.. . .
A Web-defacing duo calling themselves Sm0ked Crew Thursday night added a page within The New York Times site to their growing list. "Well...I'm sorry to say but you just got sm0ked by Splurge," read part of the page that replaced the . . .
There's no agreement on who ultimately should be--or can be--held liable when networked systems go down and damage is done. Should the government step in and regulate? Is it up to individual computer users and companies to stay on top . . .
This is exactly the type of thing that could happen to Linux. "The Anna Kournikova e-mail worm that whacked networks this week was not the work of a skilled cracker. It was created using one of the many virus-generating kits that . . .
Some are pranksters. Like the group known as "scriptx," which cracked into a Web site two weeks ago only to post a picture of a jolly fat man wearing nothing but a Santa hat and a smile. Some are Romeos. A . . .
"Why were universities so involved in these attacks? Because they're naked," said Stephen Northcutt, head of the SANS Institute's Global Incident Analysis Center in Bethesda, Md. "They're sitting out there on the Internet with no firewalls or anything." So naked are . . .
The recent spate of security breaches and e-mail invasions including Monday's news trilogy -- the World Economic Forum hack, the JavaScript email wiretapping scare, and the hole discovered in the protocol that is supposed to secure data transmitted wirelessly -- recalls . . .
Jennifer Granick is a well-known figure within the hacker community. She helped Kevin Poulsen navigate his return to using computers after the convicted hacker came out of jail. Granick is now defending Jerome Heckenkamp, the 21-year-old Los Alamos National Laboratory employee . . .
Web protection software maker eEye Digital Security said today it has released Retina 3.0, a network guard for the Microsoft Windows NT platform. The company said in a statement that the Retina network security scanner is the first such software application . . .
A popular Web discussion board in which the subject is computer security became the unwitting host of an attack program directed at security consultant firm Network Associates Wednesday night. A cracker posted to the Bugtraq board what he said was a . . .
It seems that even the experts get fooled sometimes. A Trojan horse posing as a security tool did just that Wednesday night, when experts at SecurityFocus.com-which moderates the popular Bugtraq security list-sent the mildly malicious code to the list's 37,000 users. . . .
A former network administrator for the US District Court in Alaska has been sentenced for launching a series of denial-of-service attacks against a New York District Court Web site. According to information released today by the FBI, Anchorage resident Scott . . .
The 27-year-old Mr Schmitz has emerged as the improbable white knight for the wobbly internet retailer LetsBuyIt.com, promising to invest up to pounds 30m in the loss-making venture. And on even the most cursory of glances, Mr Schmitz has a background . . .
Legendary hacking figure Captain Crunch is returning from years of relative obscurity to set himself up as a security consultant. Perhaps the most well known figure in the digital underground besides Kevin Mitnick, John Draper made his name in 1971 when . . .
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