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Music technology forum awards hackers in contest

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A music and technology forum that ran a $10,000 contest back in September challenging people to hack into copyright protection technologies said on Tuesday it was paying prize money to two hackers. The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) said it was . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 01, 2000

Any port is a hacker storm

Central to [the SYN] attack is the ability of the miscreant to find an "open" port - that is, a port on the destination machine that responds to connection requests. If a hacker is trying to find your weaknesses, he will . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 28, 2000

Security Manager Dons Hacker Hat for a Change

I've been trying to install Linux because more and more hacker tools seem to be available for it. The combination of power, flexibility and the open-source community seems to be very attractive to hackers. Web sites such as the Nomad Mobile . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2000

Sleaze Bay: Scams Online

An educated consumer is a safe consumer. In that spirit, here is Forbes ASAP's complete guide to the dark side of online auction trading. "The average person who uses eBay is just completely ignorant," says one frequent seller (who, like . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2000

Hacking With a Conscience Is a New Trend

... more and more hackers are using their tricks to spread socially conscious messages, security experts say. The trend -- dubbed "hacktivism" -- has shown up in a number of recent incidents: -- On Election Day, a Democrat hacked the Republican . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 22, 2000

Tapping on the walls

Paring down your network services isn't the only way to protect your systems against attacks: port scanning can also be an effective tool. In this month's Building Blocks of Security, Sandra Henry-Stocker shows you how to stay one step ahead of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2000

Holding back hackers

Businesses are starting to realize that while the new economy requires the Internet, it also requires protection from those who take pleasure or profit sneaking into a company's electronic recesses. "I think a lot of people don't understand that with . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2000

EPIC: Carnivore not as selective as FBI said

Carnivore, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's e-mail surveillance software, is capable of capturing "all unfiltered traffic," despite assurances from the FBI this summer that the program only captures e-mails going to people on whom the FBI has a warrant.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 20, 2000

Denial of Service Attacks Planned For Christmas - ISS

X-Force, the research and development (R&D) team of Internet Security Systems (ISS), has warned that hackers are planning an online attack-fest this coming Christmas. The attacks, if they occur, will take the form of distributed denial of service (DDOS) invasions, a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 19, 2000

Bug-hunters say security holes go unheeded

Experts say companies are failing to respond to security alerts, describing the laissez-faire -- or just plain lazy -- attitude as 'irresponsible.' Major software firms may be neglecting security vulnerabilities and putting their users at serious risk, according to bug-hunters at . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2000

EDS devises package to pre-empt hackers

Big-mouthed hackers to come a cropper Services giant EDS last week said it knew about recent denial-of-service attacks two months before they happened, and had even identified the tools the crackers were planning to use. Speaking in Las Vegas . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2000

Hackers Deface Policy.com As 'Public Service

Politics Web site Policy.com late this morning was cracked by unknown assailants who replaced the home page with one of their own, and told the site's operators that they did it to alert Policy.com to its own security vulnerabilities, and not . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 16, 2000

Mass Xmas hack plan exposed

Internet security researchers have warned that hackers are planning to launch internet-based denial of service (DoS) attacks on web retailers over the Christmas period.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 16, 2000

Hackers' Tricks to Avoid Detection

Hackers are not only clever in how they invade servers; they are also devious in how they disguise their attacks. Malicious attackers use a variety of evasive techniques, which we will examine in this column so that we, as . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

Should You Strike Back?

There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, a book published last year by The RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research group formed during World War II.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

Web War: When Point and Shoot Becomes Point and Click

The online world has entered a new phase. At first it was a combination playground, library and meeting house for scientists and soldiers, an inviolate virtual world. Companies later tried to turn it into a mall. Now, it's becoming a borderless . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

Nanoteq's hacking course - 'for the good guys'

After the huge success of presenting the course in Malaysia and recently in South Africa, the Nanoteq Training Academy is again offering its Applied Hacking Techniques course to the industry. The course has been designed to give insight into the minds . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2000

Users show some sympathy to Microsoft over security

Bashing Microsoft Corp. may be popular sport on some issues, but the internal security breach that the company disclosed late last month has some corporate information technology users waxing sympathetic. Several users last week said the incident -- in which a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2000

Online Music Safeguards Withstand Hackers

A coalition of companies in the software and recording industries declared yesterday that three of five technologies aimed at stopping the online piracy of music had so far survived attack by hackers seeking to win $10,000 for cracking the security measures. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2000

The new age of hacktivism

Politicians may not pander to them and experts may discount their opinions, but online vandals are getting the message out about what they think is important: Increasingly, that's politics. On the eve of the U.S. elections, vandals defaced the home pages . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2000

Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

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

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Raises Serious Security Concerns