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RSS hackerSMS flaw leaves iPhone vulnerable to attack
News An attacker could exploit a weakness in the way iPhones handle SMS messages to do things like use GPS to track the phone's location, turn on the microphone for eavesdropping, or take control of the device and add it to a botnet, Charlie... [03 Jul 2009]
Network Access Control: Simple Enforcement Now
White Paper The motive of the hacker has shifted from disrupting enterprise operations to stealing assets that can be used for illicit financial gain, including customer credit card numbers, intellectual property and bank account... [01 Jul 2009]
Guarding Against Software Piracy, Source Code Theft and Tampering
White Paper This greatly reduces the skill level required of a hacker or competitor to tamper and steal the code. In addition, applications developed using managed frameworks like Microsoft .NET significantly raise the risk of... [30 Jun 2009]
Client-Side Security - One Year Later
White Paper The content of the paper is based on the research that has been conducted over the past year by the GNUCITIZEN Ethical Hacker Outfit. Client-side software generally refers to a class of computer programs that are... [30 Jun 2009]
Rootkits: The New Wave of Invisible Malware Is Here
White Paper In the 1980s], hackers were known to infiltrate UNIX machines and install a program that provided a backdoor, enabling the hacker to return any time with full "Root" privileges. Lately there has been a lot of discussion... [25 Jun 2009]
Demystifying Wireless Network Access and 802.1X Security
White Paper Similarly, a network user wants assurance that when he connects his wireless notebook PC to his network, he is really connecting to his network - and not to a counterfeit network thrown together by a hacker to intercept... [25 Jun 2009]
Secure Authentication - Enabling the Business, Not Tying It Down
White Paper For many years, the search for 'Absolute security' has been fought over by vendors promising to eliminate the external threat of the hacker, the virus, the Trojan and so on. There have been those who have fought the... [25 Jun 2009]
An Analysis of Virtual Private Networks
White Paper The network addresses of the destination and source are also hidden by tunneling protocols so that a hacker would only be able to see the destination and source router addresses. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a way... [25 Jun 2009]
Distributed Intrusion Detection for Computer Systems Using Communicating Agents
White Paper The availability of many "Hacker toolkits" provides even the novice computer enthusiast with the ability to penetrate an Internet site. Intrusion detection for computer systems is a key problem of today's Internet... [25 Jun 2009]
Why 1970s hackers had 'whiz kid' status
Comment You probably want to hear about when I was a hacker. Here silicon.com's sister site CNET News talks to Mitnick about what got him interested in computers in the first place, the differences between hacking today and... [23 Jun 2009]
iPhone 3.0 patches 46 security holes
News Several of the bugs could allow a hacker to execute malicious code on the handset. A number of the vulnerabilities, mainly found in WebKit, open the door to cross-site scripting attacks, where the hacker... [19 Jun 2009]
Opera Unites browser and server
News Asked whether the platform could be used by someone to access data on the host's PC that the host had not chosen to share, the spokeswoman said: "Definitely not - unless they're a hacker. Opera has released an early... [17 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Johnson can also expect to face fresh pleas from lawyers for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon, who made unsuccessful appeals to Smith to block his extradition to the US to face prosecution. Following a week of political turmoil... [10 Jun 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). Moss's background as a computer... [08 Jun 2009]
What Is a Vulnerability?
White Paper Culture: Finding vulnerabilities is a big part of the hacker/infosec culture. Security holes/bugs are faults, defects or programming errors. These may be exploited by unauthorised users to access computer networks or web... [01 May 2009]
