admin @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apparently the admins or moderators crawled up someone’s back recently…not hard to do there with the excessively strict rules and some quick draw moderators…anyways the site seems to have been down for most or all of yesterday and part of today.
During those times it has been up pages take several minutes to load and replies […]
admin @ October 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A 15-year-old high school student in New York State has been charged with three felonies after he allegedly accessed personnel records on his school’s poorly configured computer network and then notified his principal of the security weakness.
The unnamed student of Shenendehowa Central School was charged Thursday with computer trespass, unlawful possession of a personal identification […]
admin @ October 10, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“The World Bank Group’s computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned. It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers […]
admin @ October 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Bitmaps stored inside encrypted backup files could be vulnerable to a sophisticated ‘comparison’ attack, a German security researcher has discovered.
In a new paper, Bernd Roellgen of Munich-based encryption outfit PMC Ciphers, explains how it is possible to compare an encrypted backup image file made with almost any commercial encryption program or algorithm to an original […]
admin @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A security firm is now reporting that the CAPTCHA used for Windows Live Mail can now be cracked in as little as 60 seconds.
To make matters worse, Websense Security Labs is now reporting that the method for getting around Windows Live Mail’s CAPTCHA has been improved to the point that a bot can decipher the text and […]
admin @ April 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Malicious hackers beware: Computer security expert Joel Eriksson might already own your box.Eriksson, a researcher at the Swedish security firm Bitsec, uses reverse-engineering tools to find remotely exploitable security holes in hacking software. In particular, he targets the client-side applications intruders use to control Trojan horses from afar, finding vulnerabilities that would let him upload […]
admin @ February 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Quebec provincial police say they’ve dismantled a computer hacking network that targeted unprotected personal computers around the world.
Police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and arrested 16 people in their investigation, which they say uncovered the largest hacking scam in Canadian history.
The hackers collaborated online to attack and take control of as many as […]
admin @ January 21, 2008 # One Comment
Someone has used SQL injection to wipe their entire database. There is no content left on that site at all.SQL injection works when a sloppy programmer passes a URL variable straight into a query without validating it. So if you have something like this:
SELECT article_title FROM table WHERE year = [URL variable]
And you pass “2007″ […]
admin @ January 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong.
Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was […]
admin @ January 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The vulnerability is in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, along with Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002, Microsoft Office Excel 2000 and Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, Microsoft said. If successfully exploited on a vulnerable computer, it could enable remote code execution, the company added.
Microsoft is now investigating public reports […]
admin @ January 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A 14 year-old schoolboy hacked into a Polish tram system and used a remote control to change the direction of a number of vehicles.
Transport employees in Lodz immediately suspected outside interference when a driver who was trying to turn right found his tram veering to the left.
The tram’s back wagon was derailed and hit a […]
admin @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With the help of security experts, we reconstruct a typical hack attack on two large organisations and walk through the steps that the head of IT should follow in such a case.
Monday, 9am
Blackjack, a hacker working from an internet cafe in London, is about to launch an attack on a major government agency. His aim […]
admin @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Tens of thousands of Web sites have been compromised by an automated SQL injection attack, and although some have been cleaned, others continue to serve visitors a malicious script that tries to hijack their PCs using multiple exploits, security experts said this weekend.
Hacked sites included both .edu and .gov domains, the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm […]
admin @ December 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
There is a bug in WordPress right now that is rather critical for anyone who uploads posts without immediately publishing. Simply by manipulating the URL any visitor can view all future, draft, or pending posts. Our site was vulnerable to this issue, but we patched it quickly because it could be used to retrieve the […]
