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RSS hackRealNames hit by credit card hack
News RealNames has become the latest victim in a series of Internet hack attacks which have left credit card details exposed. The Internet keyword company noticed last week that someone was redirecting its keywords to a Web... [14 Feb 2000]
Hacking wave ends as FBI prepare to investigate
News The hack attacks which brought down Amazon, CNN, eBay, eTrade and ZDNet seem to have come to a halt, but none of the perpetrators have been identified. Janet Reno, US attorney general, this week pledged a full FBI... [10 Feb 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: The prince of hackers goes free
Comment If you've missed it, Mitnick is a hacker who became notorious after he managed to hack several high-profile companies, including Motorola, Netcom and Novell. All of this would seem to show that Mitnick was some sort of... [08 Feb 2000]
WinWhatWhere revises monitoring software
News Security experts warn of massive hack attack' http://www.silicon.com/a32993 US software developer WinWhatWhere has responded to pressure over its controversial monitoring product by releasing a version which includes a... [24 Jan 2000]
Encryption keys aren't safe on servers, report warns
News Previously it was thought to be impossible to hack into a network and find the keys, because they were small pieces of code hidden in mountains of information. Encryption keys are no longer safe on servers according to... [06 Jan 2000]
Y2K viruses: running wild - or wildly exaggerated?
Comment Prophets of doom disappointed by the millennium bug's non-appearance will be taking heart this week as some software vendors put clients back on red alert for a barrage of viruses especially created for the season. [05 Jan 2000]
The IT girl: Rubbing egos in the premier league
Comment Likewise, when the hack from the Guardian Women's Page thoughtfully rubbed her chin over our lunchtime briefing, I knew it wasn't because she thought my man from Cybercop was evading the question. Many an IT... [07 Dec 1999]
Security experts warn of massive hack attack
News Covert monitoring software on sale commercially in the US could give hackers an easy route to stealing user information and passwords, according to European security specialist, Peapod. Investigator 2.0, developed by software firm... [28 Sep 1999]
Australian intelligence service given licence to hack
News The Australian intelligence agency, ASIO, has been given unlimited powers to hack into computers and monitor user movements with tracking devices, according to a report in the Sydney Herald. The move comes on the... [29 Mar 1999]
MobilCom suffers break-in and lock out
News MobileCom denies the hack, but admitted that the reporters could have retrieved the data from a router. German telco, MobilCom is reeling after a double blow yesterday - an online break-in and a capacity shortage that... [13 Jan 1999]
Signing up the competition - have digital signatures met their match?
Comment It certainly takes longer to detect a hack than a virus, because viruses are spread between machines and they usually crash them. Until now, the only way to spot when a hacker had attacked your system was to build up a... [12 Nov 1998]
