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Tech Giants Unite Efforts to Tackle Cybersecurity Challenges Ahead

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Some of the biggest names in technology, including bitter rivals Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp., are forming a private alliance to share sensitive information about cyber-attacks and vulnerabilities in their software and hardware products, which are used by much of the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2001

Growing Demand For Security Solutions Due To Rising Cyber Threats

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

OpenHack III Competition: Argus PitBull Faces Off Against Elite Hackers

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

Digital Watermarking Challenge Uncovers Security Issues in Music Rights

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

OpenHack III Hacking Contest: Test Argus PitBull Security Product

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

FBI Investigates Teen Hackers' Plot to Disrupt Internet on New Year's Eve

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

Effective Strategies To Combat Wireless Spam And Privacy Risks

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: Legal Action for 200 Web Defacements and Digital Activism

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 National Laboratory: Employee Arrested For 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

Undernet: DoS Attack Threatens IRC Service Continuation

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

Bradwell Nuclear Facility Incident: Security Audit Post Network Breach

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

Defacement Insights: Top Level Domains Change Over Time in 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

L0pht Heavy Industries: New Security Firm Enhances Data Protection

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 Threats Report: Insights For Online Businesses

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

Exploring Cyber Threats: Hacking, Data Breaches, And Wireless Risks

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

Bruce Schneier Explores Network Security Testing Complexity

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

DDoS Threat Analysis: Holiday Season Alerts and Mitigation Strategies

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

Evil Angelica's Service Allows Users to Deface Websites Easily

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

Bill Clinton: U.S. Signs 1998 ICC Treaty for Global Justice

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

Microsoft Cybersecurity Breach Raises National Security Concerns

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

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