Source: Computer Currents - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
A 28-year-old man has been charged with cracking government Web sites last year. If convicted, the cracker could face fines of up to $250,000 and as much as 10 years in jail, reports say. . . .
Source: Cnn.com - - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
Here is yet another article posted about Internet privacy..." More than 70 percent of Internet users said going online has improved their lives, according to a national survey released Wednesday. But a wave of recent attacks against well-known Web sites . . .
Source: Written by: Steven Vonder Haar - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
It seems more and more people are getting paranoid over privacy. But, that's a good thing. Steven Vonder Haar writes..."DoubleClick last week took the wraps off a marketing plan aimed at quelling increasing concern among privacy advocates over the . . .
Source: TechServer.com - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
"Federal computer systems are just as vulnerable to disruption as the leading business and news Web sites attacked last week, senators pushing for improved Internet security said Wednesday. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee plans a March 2 hearing to get . . .
Source: AAP Fairfax - - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
"The successor to the KGB is now also spying on the Internet, raising fears that the information it collects could be used for blackmail and business espionage. "The whole Federal Security Service will be crying tomorrow over your love . . .
Source: InternetNews.com - - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
"It may be impossible for even the most fortified Internet companies to ensure their Web sites will not be hacked, but they can always insure themselves against losses from unwanted intrusions. That's right: hacker insurance. Such policies have been . . .
Source: SecurityFocus - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mixter, the author of Tribe Flood Network and Tribe Flood Network 2000, has agreed to do an interview on info.sec.radio. TFN and TFN2k are two of the DDoS tools that may have been used in the recent widespread attacks. . . .
Source: Channel4000 (Found on SecurityFocus) - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
Fifteen felony charges have been filed against a Twin Cities-area man and woman who used computers to steal confidential, proprietary information from two companies, apparently by obtaining passwords using L0phtCrack. . . .
Source: NY Daily News - - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team
Here is an amusing article ... "In her interview with the Sunday News, the First Lady confessed she does not yet have her own computer, has never surfed the Web and has not yet made an online purchase. The . . .
Jeff Moad from PC Week writes, "It's probably not surprising that, even while last week's denial-of-service attacks were raging across the Web, the conspiracy theories already were beginning. While some investigators in search of culprits pointed fingers at hackers . . .
