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News A computer hacker has been sent back to prison for five months for violating his probation, according to US reports. Peterson claims he helped police convict the notorious hacker, Kevin Mitnick. Justin... [13 Jan 1999]
Signing up the competition - have digital signatures met their match?
Comment There are around eighteen other hacker detection products on the market, and they are all based on signatures. Take hacker detection, which has become a crucial business issue as more money is made... [12 Nov 1998]
One in five corporate servers hijacked by spam-mailers
News The problem, said Hills, is that server software usually comes with a default setting that means it will route email traffic from one domain name to another -making it easy for a hacker to route traffic through the server. [10 Nov 1998]
Chinese human rights Web site comes under attack
News But the hacker group, calling itself the Bronc Buster, said the invasion had taken just two minutes. A Chinese government Web site set up to improve the authority's human rights image has been invaded by hackers who... [28 Oct 1998]
Son of Cache-Cow strikes back at Netscape
News The bug allowed a hacker to inject foreign JavaScript code into Web documents enabling them to steal the contents of a user's cache. He has also written other JavaScripts proving that the security flaw could allow a... [09 Oct 1998]
US experts warn of latest hacker ploy
News Security experts at the US Department of Defence (DoD) are warning that hackers have become more dangerous by coordinating their attacks from multiple locations around the world. The hackers send attacks in segments among normal data... [28 Sep 1998]
Net security hole leaves credit card numbers exposed
News The disturbing thing to remember is that it doesn't take a hacker to see all this - because God knows I'm not a hacker! Thousands of Internet users have been exposed to risk after their personal details... [25 Sep 1998]
Microsoft accused of ignoring Hotmail problems
News The attachment, written in Macromedia Shockwave, then offers users a bogus log-in page, which sends their confidential details back to the hacker. The gang of programmers who discovered a security glitch in Microsoft... [23 Sep 1998]
In brief: MoD denies security scare
News A UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesman today denied press reports that a hacker has broken into its internal systems. According to the report, the hacker gained access to files only two levels down... [21 Sep 1998]
In brief: Girlie hackers attack New York Times Web site
News The group claims to support imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick, who has been serving time on computer-related fraud charges. A group calling itself 'Hacking for Girlies' has caused the Web site of The New York Times to be... [14 Sep 1998]
US government invests in Internet security
News The US Department of Defense is to invest $1.4m into protecting the backbone of the Internet against hacker attacks. In the most famous case of this kind, hacker Eugene Kashpureff rerouted Web traffic... [28 Aug 1998]
ISPA calls on service providers to join forces against hackers
News He said: "As one ISP becomes aware of a hacker it can inform other ISPs which can then draw on that information to protect themselves. The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) plans to adjust its code of... [25 Aug 1998]
IBM technology blocks active attacks
News IBM Research has unveiled a cryptography system which it claims is the best yet at preventing the most dangerous hacker invasions, known as 'active attacks'. The technology was developed with the Swiss Federal Institute... [25 Aug 1998]
Hackers expose Compuweb security flaw
News The hacker group, based in US and the UK, managed to redirect users of these sites to 'hacking causes' covering anti-pornography and intellectual property rights interests. The hacker group says it... [24 Aug 1998]
Youthful hacker proves a point
News An 18 year old hacker has been thwarted in his efforts to blackmail Sweden's leading Internet service provider (ISP), Telia Internet. But he did concede that time-based pricing is expensive for people who use the... [21 Aug 1998]
