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