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EU pact criminalising security research?

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At Def Con in Amsterdam, computer security experts say the draft of Europe's Cybercrime Treaty could spark a 21st century witch hunt Meet the world's newest class of persecuted artists: computer hackers. European Union nations, and perhaps even . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2000

The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities

Once upon a time, only the black hats (often called hackers) and a few self-described white hats (often called security experts) had easy access to security vulnerability information. The black hats could use their knowledge to break into computers at will. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2000

Shining light on cybercrime

After more than six years of chronicling the insecurities of cyberspace for a computer security newsletter, Richard Power finally decided this past spring to put it all together in a book. The result is Tangled Web: Tales of Digital Crime From . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2000

Cyber-exploitation: Making money on kids

Is the teenage hacker really someone to fear? In this week's Unix Security, Carole Fennelly investigates who's benefiting from the hacker hype. Just this week, I was spammed with a press release from ComputerCop, entitled "Famed NYPD Detective Urges Parents . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

Princeton Team Cracks SDMI

SDMI is the music industry forum trying to build a system for protecting digital music against being illegal copying. The outfit launched the Hack SDMI challenge last month to invite the public to attack its digital watermark technology and possibly win . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 23, 2000

Proud to Represent Hackers

As a European intellectual distrustful of U.S. influence, Mueller-Maguhn can be counted on to make a splash when the ICANN board meets in California next month. Among his first priorities will be explaining to an American audience just what the term . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 19, 2000

Cybercrime threat 'real and growing'

Michael Vatis, director of the USA's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), said the threat of crime using the internet was real and growing. Speaking at the World E-Commerce Forum in London, he described an "array of threats" to e-commerce and society . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 19, 2000

Inside the world of a 'hactivist'

Yetzer's a hacker and an acknowledged "social engineer" with curious nocturnal habits. There are thousands of people like him, who by day are system and network administrators, security analysts and start-up co-founders. When night comes, they transform into vampire wanna-bes, hedonists, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2000

Hacktivist edits on-line newspaper

A hacktivist going by the alias 'Exiled Dave' broke into on-line newspaper the Orange County Register last week and edited several stories, one of which said that Microsoft founder Bill Gates had been arrested for hacking into "hundreds, maybe thousands" of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 11, 2000

Issues: The medias guide to talking to hackers

Two years ago, the then just started HNN, published an article in their Buffer Overflow section called "A hackers guide to talking to the media". It was received with different opinions around the scene (I remember it referred to as "a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2000

Computer security expert gives advice on protection from hackers

The driving force for hackers usually isn't malice, but rather curiosity. Most hackers are young males, and some are harmless. It's the so-called "crackers" who are more malicious. However, a distinction between the two usually isn't made except in hacker culture.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2000

Teaching South Africa to Crack

While many IT professionals spend their time figuring out how to keep crackers from breaking in and wreaking havoc in their computer systems and on their websites, Ernst and Young are planning to teach 60 people how to do just that . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2000

Another Linux vulnerability appears

Linux firms have plugged flaws from last week, but new 'GLIBC' hole has manifested itself. The flaws in some Linux programs that have let crackers infiltrate hundreds of servers in past weeks have been plugged in updated . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2000

Mitnick to IT managers: 'Everybody is suspect'

Infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick warned IT managers Wednesday that unless they educate every employee -- from the CEO to the receptionist -- about how hackers work and how to bolster security, corporate networks and Web sites will never be safe from . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2000

Slashdot Database Compromised by 'White Hat' Hackers

Visitors to Slashdot this evening were greeted by a story announcing that the popular site's database had been compromised by 'hackers from the Netherlands,' who had secured the exploit and e-mailed Slashdot administrators informing them of the compromise.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2000

Spooked in a game of cat and mouse between a hacker and the Feds

Last March, I wrote about the experience of being hacked. Your correspondent, still a Linux newbie after months of effort, discovered that his home-built Red Hat Linux machine had been commandeered and turned into an IRC chatbot by someone named "bonez".. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2000

Man hacks US online banks, then goes on holiday

The security of online banking came under fire again today after a software analyst claimed he had been able to access people's accounts without breaking into a sweat. Ralph Dressel, a software analyst at Royal Skandia Investment Bank said that he . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2000

Teen does time for NASA, military hacks

A 16-year-old Miami resident who hacked into military and NASA computer systems will serve six months in a detention facility for his offenses. It's the first instance of a convicted juvenile hacker having to serve time for acts of juvenile delinquency, . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2000

Bank software firm disputes hacking claims

Banking software firm Fiserv has denied claims by the Observer newspaper that data accessed through one of its Web sites gave a UK security expert access to thousands of genuine bank accounts. Fiserv says security engineer Ralph Dressel . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2000

Western Union Site Back Up After Breach

WESTERN Union Holdings Inc.'s Web site was out of commission for five days last week after a malicious hacker broke into the site and apparently copied the credit-card or debit-card numbers of about 15,700 Western Union customers. Peter Ziverts, a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 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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