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Princeton SDMI Digital Watermarking Challenge Highlights Security Flaws

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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

Mueller-Maguhn's Mission to Reframe Hacker Perspectives at ICANN

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

NIPC Insights: Cybercrime Threats to E-Commerce and Society

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

Exploring the Journey of a Hactivist and Social Engineer Yetzer

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

Exiled Dave Compromises OC Register: Media Intrusion Incident

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

Training Hackers: Why Media Relations Are Essential For Success

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

Understanding Cyber Threats and Effective Strategies for Protection

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

Ernst and Young: Cracker Tactics for Unix Security Training

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

Linux: GLIBC Threat Advisory Critical: Remote Root Access Risk

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

Kevin Mitnick Highlights Employee Training in Cybersecurity Threats

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 Compromise Incident Overview and Analysis

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

Red Hat Linux: A Newbie's Experience With Hacking and Threats

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

Security Incident: Online Banking Account Breach Exposed

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

Miami Teen Hacked Military And NASA: Six Month Sentencing

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

Fiserv Provides Official Statement on Observer Data Breach Allegations

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 Recovery: 15,700 Customers Affected by 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

Protecting Your Network From Script Kiddies: Essential Defense Techniques

Knock, knock. Who's there? Script kiddie. Script kiddie ... who? Unfortunately, script kiddies are no joke. The term "script kiddie" is what network people call hackers who run scripts to challenge your network security. They believe that most of these hackers . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2000

Denial of Service Threat: CERT Coordination Center Advisory

Batten down the hatches and hide the women and children. Internet Armageddon is on its way ... again. A recent advisory from the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie-Mellon University has raised the specter of an impending and massive denial of service . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2000

HSBC UK: Cyber Attack Breaches International Sites Related To Protests

Jo Ticehurst writes "HSBC's UK internet site and three other international sites have been broken into as part of an ongoing hacking campaign in support of the fuel protest." YACoHTMaP (Yet Another Case of Hacking To Make a Point). . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2000

CERT Advisory: Significant DDoS Threat Posed by Automated Toolkits

CERT warned that over the past two months it has received reports that computer vandals are scouring the Internet for computers containing a type of vulnerability that allows for the installation of automated "toolkits" that permit the intruder to control the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 20, 2000

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