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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 . . .
After further review, security experts last week said enterprises can glean some new lessons from the Microsoft Corp. hacking saga. First and foremost, if you get hacked, don't do what Microsoft did. According to at least a dozen security experts contacted . . .
Microsoft's internal network has been broken into for the second time in as many weeks by a hacker who exploited the fact that the software giant had not applied its own security patches.
Cybercrime accounted for half of all fraud committed in the UK in the first six months of this year, according to a legal expert. Steven Philippsohn, senior litigation partner at law firm Philippsohn, Crawfords, Berwald, said this figure would rise as . . .
With cybercrime on the rise, even more attention is being paid to using the law to fight the cybercrooks. Only days ago, it was reported that the blueprints to the latest versions of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows and Office software package were . . .
Computer hackers with political agendas have become a fast-growing threat to big companies worldwide, according to a corporate intelligence company. "The methods they are using are in their infancy," says Kent Anderson of Control Risks Group, an international business risk consultancy. . . .
Computer hackers with political agendas have become a fast-growing threat to big companies worldwide, a corporate intelligence company said on Thursday. "The methods they are using are in their infancy," said Kent Anderson of Control Risks Group, an international business risk . . .
High-tech thieves and industrial spies seem like the makings for the next John Grisham novel, but the folks over at the Cyber Group Network Corp. take cyber theft very seriously. The company's subsidiary, Cyber Crime Corp., today unveiled its revolutionary E-Snitch . . .
As a growing interest in online voting emerges and companies like Election.com have completed several mostly-successful medium-scale elections online, an Internet voting service is inviting hackers from around the world to test its particular system's defenses.. . .
Network security becomes increasingly difficult as point-and-drool cracking tools proliferate. So many painfully easy-to-use appz have been developed in recent years that persistence is now a far more reliable predictor of success than skill: even a newbie cracker can succeed by . . .
Kevin Mitnick used to make life miserable for corporate IT managers by breaking into computer systems. Now he's making it his business to help them secure their networks against hackers. Last month Mitnick, who was released from prison earlier this year . . .
The attack on Microsoft underscores that corporate networks are still widely vulnerable to hackers, security analysts say. Even as companies shore up security in some areas, new technologies--such as Web-based email and broadband DSL and cable Internet connections--create new vulnerabilities.. . .
Calling it an act of "industrial espionage," Microsoft said malicious hackers gained access to its internal networks, where they were able to see some of the company's upcoming software code.
ZDNet has a nice round-up of the reported MS security breach. Includes news from Ballmer, their "hackers" section, and more. I feel much better now that Ballmer has stated that the attacks were "not very damaging." They only reportedly got the source to Windows, after all. Especially interesting is a comment from a Trend Micro official, stating they have had detection for this reported trojan for months, and only regard it as a medium threat. "News that thieves have used a Trojan horse program to pilfer source code from Microsoft could have serious security implications. . . .
Microsoft Corp. and U.S. authorities are investigating an extraordinary computer break-in at Microsoft's headquarters by hackers believed to have stolen the blueprints to its most valuable software, including the latest versions of Windows and Office, people . . .
Hacking software poses special challenges because most of the tools have two equal uses, Granick said. For example, a popular hacking tool called nMap connects to a remote computer and tells the user if that computer has any . . .
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 . . .
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. . . .
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 . . .
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 . . .
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