admin @ November 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
IT security and control firm Sophos has welcomed news that a teenager from New Zealand, believed to be the brains behind an international cyber gang, has been arrested.
The gang was allegedly responsible for infecting more then one million computers, stealing bank and credit card information, and embezzling more than USD 20 million. It is suspected […]
admin @ November 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Fasthosts has announced that “a number” of its customers’* FTP spaces were raided as a result of the major hack that triggered a police investigation last month. It has applied a system-wide reset of thousands of passwords as a result.
The Gloucester-based webhosting firm yesterday performed the emergency reset of control panel, PCP, FTP and SQL […]
admin @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A 48-year-old man caught up in an internet love triangle was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing his rival after being dumped by the woman they both competed for.
Thomas Montgomery of Cheektowaga, New York, pleaded guilty in August to the shooting death of 22-year-old Brian Barrett while he sat in a pickup truck […]
admin @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Increasingly worried over Internet providers’ behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering.
The San Francisco-based digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation hopes the program, released Wednesday, will help uncover “data discrimination” _ efforts by Internet providers to disrupt some uses of their […]
admin @ November 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tragic story of Tony Harris by now…the son/son-in-law of a loving wife, a soon to be born child, a devoted step-father and his wife… Tony Harris goes to Brazil to play basketball and life takes a tragic turn… But…is United Air Lines hospitable? Sympathetic? NO! instead of giving the […]
admin @ November 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tragic story of Tony Harris by now…the son/son-in-law of a loving wife, a soon to be born child, a devoted step-father and his wife… Tony Harris goes to Brazil to play basketball and life takes a tragic turn… But…is United Air Lines hospitable? Sympathetic? NO! instead of giving the […]
admin @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A TEENAGE hacker who managed to get around the Aussie government’s $84 million internet filter scheme has been recruited by the opposition Labor party to design its cyber safety policy.
Tom Wood has now become the subject of a slanging match between the Labor and Liberal parties.
Liberal Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, denies that Wood “hacked” the […]
admin @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorized access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the FBI of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code.
The man, who was no older than 16 when the crimes were committed, was found […]
admin @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A new day, a new Trojan to infect our computers. This time it’s Troj_Small.Jiu, a Trojan horse which was discovered by security vendor Trend Micro that informed the infection can be installed by other malware or as a standalone file by any user. “This Trojan arrives as a file dropped by other malware. It can […]
admin @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break the random-number generator, and most of the time you break the entire security system. Which is why you should worry about a new random-number standard that includes an algorithm that is […]
admin @ November 10, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Google ain’t no thang, according to the confrontational stylings of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The leading search-turned-services giant poses no real threat to Microsoft, Ballmer said, which is doing fabulously. Ballmer is clearly tired of the big G’s shadow, so he turned up the “what, me worry?” attitude in Tokyo this week during the launch […]
admin @ November 10, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Most network-intrusion systems today are comparing traffic against a database, collected by hand, of previously recognized attack signatures. The innovation with Nemean is a method to automatically generate intrusion signatures, making the detection process faster and more precise.
In a test comparing Nemean against a current technology on the market, both had a high detection […]
admin @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In the early 1980s, George C. was IT support on a team overseeing a large installation of workstations. At the time, this was a pretty novel concept. Several Unix site managers applied to help out but wanted “too much money,” according to management. Instead, the IT manager rounded up a bunch of recent college graduates […]
admin @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Social network Facebook unveiled a new advertising system on Tuesday that will let companies introduce ads into the user pages of its 50 million members, and launch dedicated pages on the site for their brands.
Microsoft Corp took a minority investment in Facebook last month that valued the privately held company at $15 billion, largely on […]
admin @ November 3, 2007 # No Comment Yet
PasswordsWhen you type in a password, the computer converts whatever you type into a hash. A hash is a unique algorithmic value that is then stored on your computer (or Web server). “Computers have been designed this way for the last 20 years,” said Graham, “so that when hackers break into your computers they can […]
