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How Browser Exploits Lead to Web 2.0 Hacking
White Paper These backdoors create a daunting list of new challenges: Active Content/Malicious Code, Botnets, Phishing Attacks, Liablous blog postings, Data leakage and more. Gone are the days when URL Filtering took care of all the... [01 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.02.09
Round-Up Forget hackers, forget botnets, it's you, in cubicle 64a, that is the biggest risk to your company's IT infrastructure. There are often calls for tougher sentencing and more police investigations to deal with virus... [06 Feb 2009]
Is this the largest security breach ever?
News B is for Botnets About 14 per cent of the breaches were due to hacking, the report said. In a statement Heartland said the breach occurred last year but that it found evidence of the intrusion last week... [21 Jan 2009]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News B is for Botnets Online identity theft dropped by eight per cent to affect just over 80,000 victims, while computer misuse offences - such as hacking and the spreading of viruses - affected 132,800... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News B is for Botnets Internet warfare expert Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisory Group, said Chinese hackers were "vacuuming up the internet for security and economic secrets" - citing examples such as... [29 Oct 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP addresses of the servers that command botnets, allowing it to spot attempts to connect to systems by botnet command servers. Symantec also has about two million... [21 Jul 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News B is for Botnets According to Simmonds, computer criminals are in a far more lucrative trade than security professionals, and are in a position to fund people's computer science courses at university in return for... [23 Jun 2008]
Hacking 'goodies' get industry body
News B is for Botnets An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested. The Council of Registered Ethical... [25 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment It will be botnets. The marketing of cyber crime in general and botnets in particular is a growing threat. We are concerned we do see that because botnets are by nature a force... [15 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News While not new, the development of botnets remains a big security concern because the "fast flux" approach used by attackers to protect their robotic networks is making the life of botnet investigators difficult. [09 Apr 2008]
Police unprepared for security 'arms race'
News B is for Botnets Hartman said that with online scams worth billions of dollars and growth of state-sponsored hacking of corporate and national infrastructure, the need for specialised units has never... [14 Feb 2008]
Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest
News B is for Botnets Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The hacking... [08 Feb 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News B is for Botnets Clayton added specific programs, such as penetration testing tools, were designed with the express purpose of hacking into systems and that the distribution of such tools would be... [04 Jan 2008]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News B is for Botnets During his presentation, 'Hacking Leopard: Tools and techniques for attacking the newest Mac OS X', at the recent Black Hat Briefings, Miller said that for some reason the Mac OS has... [14 Aug 2007]
Microsoft 'slapped' by foul-mouthed DNS listing
News B is for Botnets However, a spokeswoman for Whois denied any hacking of its own service has occurred and said its search is just pulling information from the crsnic.net database which is owned and... [15 Nov 2006]
