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Legal Guidance for Hackers Facing FBI Raids and Potential Charges

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Say your day begins with a raid on your home or office by FBI agents. As they cart away your computer and everything connected to it, they tell you that you're a suspect in a computer hacking crime.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 08, 2000

Legal Issues in File Sharing and Developer Accountability

As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code. ... Shawn C. Reimerdes awoke on July 26, confident that his own fate had nothing to do . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 07, 2000

Mafiaboy Faces Court: 64 Fresh Cybercrime Charges Unveiled Today

Mafiaboy, the teenage Canadian hacker, was slapped with 64 new charges, when he walked into a Montreal court yesterday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 04, 2000

Investigation Reveals 250 Linux Servers Targeted By DOS Attacks

Some 250 Linux servers were found to have been infected with a hacking program used in denial of service (DOS) attacks, raising serious security concerns with the popular open source code servers. The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) said yesterday . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 04, 2000

Hacktivists Compromise Myanmar Government Website: Engineers Address Issues

Engineers were still trying on Thursday to restore control of the Myanmar (Burma) government Web site after hacktivists brought it down, the Associated Press reports.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 03, 2000

Exploring Hacking Tactics: The Dynamic Between White Hats and Black Hats

The world of computer hackers is a constant cat-and-mouse game between "white hats" and "black hats." Some white hats use "honeypots" to learn about their enemy. Honeypots look like normal Web servers to a black hat, but they are really traps . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 28, 2000

Debate Over Software Flaw Disclosure at Black Hat by Marcus Ranum

In a contentious keynote speech that created an uproar at the Black Hat Briefings security conference here yesterday, security researcher Marcus Ranum charged that the full disclosure of software vulnerabilities isn't improving computer security. Instead, Ranum said, it only encourages attacks . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 28, 2000

Kuro5hin Site Attack: Denial of Service and Community Response

Vandals have forced one of the premier open source salons to shut up shop. Kuro5hin is temporarily out of action while its volunteer management finds a way of coping with a variety of denial of service attacks sustained by the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 27, 2000

BT.com Denial of Service Attack: Analyzing the Incident and Impact

Last week, we were contacted by a reader who claimed to have taken bt.com, btinternet.com and gameplay.com offline through a denial of service attack. We checked it out and he wasn't lying. The anonymous person went to great length as to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2000

Exploring Grey-Hat Hacking's Role In Enterprise Security Risks

Enterprises hiring reformed crackers to expose their soft underbellies will only add to the more than $2.6 trillion lost worldwide annually because of security intrusions, warns professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. That's trillion -with a "T". The shift from business-to-consumer (B2C) to . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2000

Hope 2000: A Convergence of Hackers, Ethics, and Innovation Discussion

Controlled chaos broke out at Hope 2000, a gathering loosely defined as a "hacker convention." The meeting was a social stew consisting of thousands of geeks, social cast offs, media, law enforcement, digital underground celebrities, used-to-be's and wannabes, all tossed into . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 21, 2000

Powergen Breach Exposes 7,000 Customers: Major Security Lapse

In what has been described as a gross breach of consumer confidence, consumer watchdogs condemned lax security at Powergen Wednesday, for exposing the credit details of over 7,000 customers on its Web site. It is potentially one of the biggest online . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 20, 2000

Jon Johansen's DVD Hacking Trial: A Teen's Fight for Digital Rights

Most 16-year-olds spend their summers vacationing at camp or planning their next beer-tinged revelry. Not so Jon Johansen. The Norwegian teen hacker may testify Thursday in a landmark trial over the DVD-descrambling program he wrote, which Hollywood hopes to ban from . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 20, 2000

Hacktivismo: Software Solutions For Online Censorship Issues

Hacktivismo, a new international working group of hackers led by Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member "Oxblood Ruffin," is developing a software application designed to circumvent censorship on the Internet. Speaking at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2000

Solaris 8 Revelations From Openhack Database Breach Incident

The jewel of eWEEK Labs' Openhack e-commerce site -- the database -- has been cracked, and the hack has revealed a previously unreported hole in an operating system running some of the biggest Web sites in the world: Sun Microsystems Inc.'s . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2000

Kevin Mitnick Discusses Social Engineering at H2K2 Conference

In the early '90s, Mitnick had the run of many phone systems. On Sunday, the celebrity hacker told hackers, wannabes and activists who packed two rooms at Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 how he did it. "Through social engineering, I gained . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 18, 2000

Jello Biafra at H2K: Connecting Punk Politics to Hacktivism

Former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, the punk icon who made an unsuccessful run for the Green Party's 2000 presidential nomination, was the keynote speaker at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference here Saturday afternoon. And, despite the fact . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 17, 2000

H2K Gathering: Discussion on Music Exchange and Artists' Rights Issues

ZDNet's got quite a bit on the H2K conference. "Musicians and academics debated the right and wrong of sharing digital music on the Internet at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference Saturday. While both the panelists and the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2000

Cult of the Dead Cow Performance: A Unique Showcase At H2K 2000

Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) put on their usual extravaganza here Saturday at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference. Last year at DEF CON 7.O, I reported on the hacking group releasing the . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2000

Exploring Diverse Definitions of Hackers and Their Impact

If you want an exercise in semantics, randomly ask five wired people to define the term hacker. Their answers will vary wildly, I guarantee. An old school techie may insist a hacker is a black-belt computer programmer or engineer. A belabored . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2000

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