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Source: ComputerWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: The Register - Posted by Chris Parker
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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 . . . |
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Source: The Register - Posted by Chris Parker
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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 . . . |
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Source: Fairfax IT - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: MSNBC - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: ZDNet - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: ZDNet - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: ZDNet eWeek - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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Source: ZDNet - Posted by Dave Wreski
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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 . . . |
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