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Kevin Mitnick: Auctioned ID Card Sparks Controversy and Removals

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A celebrity computer hacker gained more notoriety after three online auction sites posted then removed from sale his prison ID card. The ID card of Kevin Mitnick is being offered on start-up auction site DutchBid.com after being rejected by Amazon.com, Yahoo! . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 01, 2000

Sound Innovation Society Awards Programmers $10,000 for IP Dilemma

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

Understanding SYN Attacks: Protection Strategies Against Port Scanning

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

Exploring Linux Hacker Tools for Network Security Insights

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

Protecting Yourself from eBay Auction Scams: Essential Guide

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

Understanding How Ethical Hacking Drives Positive Social Transformation

... 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

Maximizing Network Defense Through Port Scanning Techniques

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

Understanding Cyber Defense Requirements Against Modern Threats

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

Carnivore E-mail Surveillance: FBI's Unfiltered Traffic Concerns

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

DDoS Attack Warning for Christmas: ISS Alerts Major Web Threats

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

Critique of Major Firms Ignoring Security Alerts and User Risks

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 Unveils Comprehensive Anti-Hacker Solution for DoS Defense

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

Policy.com Cyber Attack Highlights Vulnerabilities and Security Threats

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

DoS Attacks Target Web Retailers: Christmas Security Alert

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

Understanding Hackers' Deceptive Strategies 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

Exploring Netwar Strategies and Corporate Responses to Cyber Threats

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

Exploring Digital Warfare: Cyber Attacks and Online Conflicts

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

Explore Nanoteq's Applied Hacking Techniques Course for Cyber Defense

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

Microsoft Internal Breach: Corporate Users Sympathize After Attack

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

Secure Digital Music Initiative: Technology for Music Protection

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

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