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Hackers deface SCO website
News In a hack that began sometime before 0530 (PST) on Monday, someone placed a graphic atop SCO's home page that read "we own all your code" and "pay us all your money". Monday's hack is the latest in a string of attacks launched against SCO. [30 Nov 2004]
5 years ago... Hackers offered cash prize
News Microsoft certainly didn't think so when a $200,000 prize was put up for the first person to hack the Xbox and get Linux running on an unmodified console. Unfortunately for Argus the winners actually managed to complete the hack before the show's... [13 May 2004]
UK gets first 'hacking' training course
News Apart from having a spare few thousand quid to get on the course, students must also have at least two years of IT security experience, a working knowledge of TCP/IP and familiarity with both the Windows and Linux environment. [04 Mar 2004]
Anatomy of a Hack: the PC Week Linux Web Server Attack
White Paper The Linux PPC (Linux on the PowerPC architecture) group put up a system which you could have if you cracked the Web server. While hacking has never gone out of favor, the notion of putting a system up on the Internet and inviting hackers to have a... [24 Feb 2004]
An Experiment in Forensics Reveals Attackers' Techniques
White Paper To this end, an ID (Intrusion Detection) system was set up to collect network traces of scans and attacks, and monthly challenges, along the lines of "identify the scanning tool" or "name that hack". Around midnight of November 7, 2000, a Linux... [24 Feb 2004]
Apple puts out Mac OS security fix
News An Apple representative said the probability of a hack occurring was low, because the hacker would have to be an insider. And Linux and Apple weren't being left out. The number of flaws found in Linux will likely increase as well, according to... [23 Dec 2003]
Linux flaws aid hack attack
News The Debian Project has warned that a flaw in the Linux kernel helped attackers compromise four of the open software project's development servers. Members of the development team found the flaw in September and fixed the latest version of the core... [02 Dec 2003]
Linux kernel suffers Trojan horse hack
News An unknown intruder attempted to insert a Trojan horse program into the code of the next version of the Linux kernel, stored at a publicly accessible database. The public database was used only to provide the latest beta, or test version, of the... [07 Nov 2003]
Quarter of NT apps won't run on Server 2003
News We had them hack the system," he said. And Microsoft has kept a beady eye on Unix and Linux, and isn't afraid to say where the Windows approach falls short. Less than three-quarters of Windows NT4 applications are likely to run on Windows Server... [29 Apr 2003]
Lindows chief admits dangling Xbox hack 'carrot'
News Michael Robertson, chief executive of open source software firm Lindows, has admitted he was the anonymous donor of $200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox game console [03 Jan 2003]
'Flash!' Aaargghh... here to hack every one of us
News The flaw affects the Flash plug-in for browsers on Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac. A new threat is being posed to computer security, with a warning that Macromedia Flash files can be adjusted to compromise a PC or Mac as long as its user views the... [18 Dec 2002]
Hack-proof Linux: That's the promise
News Start-up Guardian Digital has launched an effort to sell a version of Linux that's less vulnerable to attack, a niche the company hopes will gain it a foothold in the market for the Unix-like operating system. [25 Sep 2002]
Linux hacker tracked to Surbiton...
News Scotland Yard and the FBI last week traced a 21-year-old British man to the sleepy tree-lined streets of Surbiton and arrested him for allegedly writing and distributing the T0rn rootkit tool which enables users to hack Linux servers. [23 Sep 2002]
Inside Oracle: A vendor dossier
Comment While Ellison may think Oracle is including the little man, one Eastern European hack was quick to point out at a recent Q&A session that Oracle's definition of a SME - companies with a market valuation of $500m-$1bn - is about proportionate... [09 Aug 2002]
Hack attacks on Linux sites rocket
News Matai said: "Hackers always go for the low hanging fruit - if it is easier to hack into open source systems, they will do it. Attacks on Linux-based websites have risen dramatically over the past year. [18 Jul 2002]
