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There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, a book published last year by The RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research group formed during World War II.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

Web War: When Point and Shoot Becomes Point and Click

The online world has entered a new phase. At first it was a combination playground, library and meeting house for scientists and soldiers, an inviolate virtual world. Companies later tried to turn it into a mall. Now, it's becoming a borderless . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 14, 2000

Nanoteq's hacking course - 'for the good guys'

After the huge success of presenting the course in Malaysia and recently in South Africa, the Nanoteq Training Academy is again offering its Applied Hacking Techniques course to the industry. The course has been designed to give insight into the minds . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2000

Users show some sympathy to Microsoft over security

Bashing Microsoft Corp. may be popular sport on some issues, but the internal security breach that the company disclosed late last month has some corporate information technology users waxing sympathetic. Several users last week said the incident -- in which a . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2000

Online Music Safeguards Withstand Hackers

A coalition of companies in the software and recording industries declared yesterday that three of five technologies aimed at stopping the online piracy of music had so far survived attack by hackers seeking to win $10,000 for cracking the security measures. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2000

The new age of hacktivism

Politicians may not pander to them and experts may discount their opinions, but online vandals are getting the message out about what they think is important: Increasingly, that's politics. On the eve of the U.S. elections, vandals defaced the home pages . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2000

After hack, Microsoft mistakes linger

After further review, security experts last week said enterprises can glean some new lessons from the Microsoft Corp. hacking saga. First and foremost, if you get hacked, don't do what Microsoft did. According to at least a dozen security experts contacted . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 08, 2000

Microsoft plays down second hack attack

Microsoft's internal network has been broken into for the second time in as many weeks by a hacker who exploited the fact that the software giant had not applied its own security patches.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 07, 2000

Cybercrime soars in the UK

Cybercrime accounted for half of all fraud committed in the UK in the first six months of this year, according to a legal expert. Steven Philippsohn, senior litigation partner at law firm Philippsohn, Crawfords, Berwald, said this figure would rise as . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 07, 2000

Combating Internet crimes and threats

With cybercrime on the rise, even more attention is being paid to using the law to fight the cybercrooks. Only days ago, it was reported that the blueprints to the latest versions of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows and Office software package were . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 07, 2000

Consultants claim businesses need to be concerned about hacktivism

Computer hackers with political agendas have become a fast-growing threat to big companies worldwide, according to a corporate intelligence company. "The methods they are using are in their infancy," says Kent Anderson of Control Risks Group, an international business risk consultancy. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2000

'Hactivist' threats on the rise

Computer hackers with political agendas have become a fast-growing threat to big companies worldwide, a corporate intelligence company said on Thursday. "The methods they are using are in their infancy," said Kent Anderson of Control Risks Group, an international business risk . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2000

Cyber Crime Corp. Unveils E-Snitch

High-tech thieves and industrial spies seem like the makings for the next John Grisham novel, but the folks over at the Cyber Group Network Corp. take cyber theft very seriously. The company's subsidiary, Cyber Crime Corp., today unveiled its revolutionary E-Snitch . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2000

SafeVote Invites Hackers To Give It A Crack

As a growing interest in online voting emerges and companies like Election.com have completed several mostly-successful medium-scale elections online, an Internet voting service is inviting hackers from around the world to test its particular system's defenses.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2000

How you hack into Microsoft: a step by step guide

Network security becomes increasingly difficult as point-and-drool cracking tools proliferate. So many painfully easy-to-use appz have been developed in recent years that persistence is now a far more reliable predictor of success than skill: even a newbie cracker can succeed by . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 31, 2000

Know Thine Enemy

Kevin Mitnick used to make life miserable for corporate IT managers by breaking into computer systems. Now he's making it his business to help them secure their networks against hackers. Last month Mitnick, who was released from prison earlier this year . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2000

New technologies create fresh inroads for hackers

The attack on Microsoft underscores that corporate networks are still widely vulnerable to hackers, security analysts say. Even as companies shore up security in some areas, new technologies--such as Web-based email and broadband DSL and cable Internet connections--create new vulnerabilities.. . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 30, 2000

The week in review: Hacking Microsoft

Calling it an act of "industrial espionage," Microsoft said malicious hackers gained access to its internal networks, where they were able to see some of the company's upcoming software code.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 28, 2000

News Roundup: Microsoft source code stolen

ZDNet has a nice round-up of the reported MS security breach. Includes news from Ballmer, their "hackers" section, and more. I feel much better now that Ballmer has stated that the attacks were "not very damaging." They only reportedly got the source to Windows, after all. Especially interesting is a comment from a Trend Micro official, stating they have had detection for this reported trojan for months, and only regard it as a medium threat. "News that thieves have used a Trojan horse program to pilfer source code from Microsoft could have serious security implications. . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2000

Microsoft's network is hacked

Microsoft Corp. and U.S. authorities are investigating an extraordinary computer break-in at Microsoft's headquarters by hackers believed to have stolen the blueprints to its most valuable software, including the latest versions of Windows and Office, people . . .

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2000

Linux Hacks & Cracks

400k Linux Servers Hacked in Massive Cryptocurrency-Mining Botnet

Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

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