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Photos: When hackers get together to do the world a favour
Photo The Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, is a community of hackers who have come together to work on projects, collaborate, and share expertise in technology and entrepreneurship. Microsoft and... [27 Nov 2009]
Why you must rein in your power users
Comment Furthermore, if a hacker can impersonate a privilege user, he will have far wider access to the target systems. It's not just the privileged users themselves that are the problem, privileged accounts are often targeted... [25 Nov 2009]
When Corporate Network Safety Starts at Employees' Homes: Protecting Your Network From Home Wireless Hackers
White Paper While there is no guarantee for 100% hacker-free security, the "SAFE WIFI" practices package some of the best security that is commonly available with today's commercial products, to make home wireless network a less... [12 Nov 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News But it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide with the annual Defcon hacker convention. A denial-of-service attack occurs when hackers overload a web service's infrastructure with data,... [06 Aug 2009]
MI5 plugs website flaw that left site open to hack attack
News Last week, a hacker with the handle '[-TE-]-Neo' wrote that the MI5 website was vulnerable to cross-site scripting and Iframe injection. The hacker put the post on the Team Elite hacker... [30 Jul 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]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News Moss's background as a computer hacker (known as 'Dark Tangent') and role as a luminary among young hackers who flock to Defcon in Las Vegas every summer might seem to make him an unusual choice to swear... [08 Jun 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment Perhaps as a dark warning that we'll never win the battle against hackers and virus writers? The RSA Conference in San Francisco, the big annual get together for the great and the good of corporate IT security, is just... [21 Apr 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News Rowland said he plans to help guide Mooney away from pranks and toward a promising career as a white hat hacker. The teen not only wasted the time of thousands of Twitter users and company engineers, Cluley said, but put... [20 Apr 2009]
Penetration Testing: Assessing Your Overall Security Before Attackers Do
White Paper The only way to really determine if your company's data is secure is to be a hacker yourself and test your company's security. Perform penetration tests against your network and find security holes before... [18 Mar 2009]
Rootkit: Attacker Undercover Tools
White Paper Today, hacker, attacker and intruder are common problem in security threat. The vulnerability that was purposely publishing for education was misused as a tool to do destruction and other malicious activity and lots of... [16 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.09
Round-Up So while you might hope that anonymous electronic Valentine's card you've just received has come from that gorgeous creature on the fifth floor, there's a big risk it might have come from some nerdy hacker who doesn't... [13 Feb 2009]
MSDN Webcast: BenkoTIPS Live and On Demand: Security Sidebars and Hacker Tricks! (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast takes a look at the top five Web exploits that hackers are using to break into sites. From cross-site scripting to one-click attacks, from SQL injection to insecure direct object reference,... [23 Dec 2008]
MSDN Webcast: BenkoTIPS Live and On-Demand: Security Sidebars and Hacker Tricks! (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast takes a look at the top five Web exploits that hackers are using to break into sites. From cross-site scripting to one-click attacks, from SQL injection to insecure direct object reference,... [11 Dec 2008]
Search Engines Used to Attack Databases
White Paper The hacker then targets the vulnerable sites with attacks designed to exploit the specific holes discovered by the search engine. Over the last year or so, Hackers have begun to use search engines to... [03 Dec 2008]
