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Wireless spam: How can it be stopped?

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In our wireless world, can solicitors find you anywhere within cell range if you have a data-ready wireless phone turned on? Internet users have for years been complaining about unwanted email, or spam, with messages that promise everything from quick cash . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 14, 2001

'Pimpshiz' speaks--with pride

The law appears to have caught up with "Pimpshiz," the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with pro-Napster graffiti. On Friday, police investigating the Web site break-ins confirmed they had searched the Pleasant Hill, Calif., home . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 13, 2001

Los Alamos lab employee arrested for alleged hacking

A current employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's top nuclear weapons research facility, has been arrested on charges of computer hacking and tampering with a witness while a student, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 12, 2001

IRC: Attack From Killer 'HaX0rZ'

Probably the best account on what's been happening with Undernet. "But IRC channels are increasingly being hit with denial of service attacks that are severe enough to cause their service contracts with ISPs to be terminated and IRC servers to shut . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2001

Security guard hacks nuke plant

A security patrolman is believed to have hacked his way into computer networks at the Bradwell nuclear reactor in Essex near London and to have altered and deleted information, the Guardian Unlimited reported Tuesday. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 10, 2001

Top Level Domains: Winners and Losers, 2000

Over year 2000, Attrition.org recorded over 5800 defacements, over 2000 more defacements over 1999. Where did all of these defacements come from? Did any Top Level Domains manage to reduce their share of defacements over the last year in what can . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 08, 2001

Infamous Internet hackers become security consultants

Some of the Internet's most adept computer hackers are forming a multimillion-dollar security company to advise the world's largest banks and hospitals how to keep their data safe. Members of the Boston-based L0pht Heavy Industries, who once boasted to the Senate . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 05, 2001

Daily Cybercrime and Security Report

If you do business on the Internet, you cannot afford to be uninformed about the dangers and pitfalls that cybercrime poses. The following is a daily survey of the latest cybercrime news from around the world.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 05, 2001

Hacking: It's a mad, mad, mad new world

Several recent news items show that the new era is fast upon us-for example, the hostage-taking of some 55,000 credit card numbers at Creditcard.com. Not long before, a cracker was discovered to have been siphoning money into his bank account from . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2001

Are we ready for a cyber-UL?

Bruce Schneier's comments on a security Underwriters Laboratory. As always, a well-thought-out commentary well worth reading. " Second, network security is much too hard to test. Again, safes are easy. Breaking into them requires skill but is reasonably straightforward. Modern software . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 03, 2001

Hacker meltdown fails to materalise

The widespread fear of a concerted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the holiday season thankfully failed to materialise, but security experts are still at odds over how serious the threat was. Fears about an attack similar to that which . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 03, 2001

Cracker offers defacement service

Web site defacement has come within the reach of everyday Internet users after a computer cracker known for defacing UK Web sites launched a scheme allowing anyone to take part in Web graffiti. The cracker -- known as Evil Angelica -- . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2001

Clinton Announces U.S. Is Signing International Criminal Court Treaty

Bill Clinton announced December 31 that the United States is signing the 1998 Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court, but said he will recommend that President-elect George W. Bush not submit the treaty to the Senate until "fundamental concerns are . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 01, 2001

Think tank warns that Microsoft hack couldpose national security risk

Although Microsoft Corp. has denied that the hacker who penetrated its network in October gained access to any of the company's source code, a recent report by a Washington-based think tank is warning that the compromise may hold grave national security . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 27, 2000

HNS Newsletter #43

This is a newsletter delivered to you by Help Net Security. It covers weekly roundups of security events that were in the news the past week. Visit Help Net Security for the latest security news. Issues covered include general . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 26, 2000

2000 Roundup: Cybercrime goes global

In February, computer hackers demonstrated that even the biggest Internet companies remain vulnerable to basic forms of attack, combining an age-old denial of service technique with new tools to cripple CNN, Amazon, eBay and Yahoo!. In the space . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 26, 2000

Hackers crack Egghead.com

Online electronics and computer retailer Egghead.com acknowledged Friday that the company's servers were hacked by network intruders and an undetermined number of credit cards numbers were potentially stolen. "Egghead.com has discovered that a hacker has accessed our computer systems, potentially including . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 22, 2000

King of the hackers

I met the mysterious Doctor Mudge on the doorstep of Bob Metcalfe's townhouse on Beacon Street in the fashionable Back Bay area of Boston. You've probably heard about Metcalfe -- he invented Ethernet, among other things -- but you might not . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 22, 2000

Hackers caught in security 'honeypot'

Security pros use HoneyNet Project to learn tricks of the hacking trade --and raise corporate awareness. When a group of suspected Pakistani hackers broke into a U.S.-based computer system in June, they thought they had found a vulnerable network to use . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 19, 2000

Learn to think like your attacker

Paring down your network services isn't the only way to protect your systems against attacks: port scanning can also be an effective tool. In this month's Building Blocks of Security, Sandra Henry-Stocker shows you how to stay one step ahead of . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 19, 2000

Hacks/Cracks - Page 127.5

Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

Threat Actors Are Actively Using Pupy RAT Malware to Attack Linux Systems

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Raises Serious Security Concerns