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UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News It comes in the wake of US authorities charging 11 people in connection with the country's largest-ever identity theft case, alleged to have been carried out by hacking into wireless networks - so-called 'wardriving'. [06 Aug 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News The Pure Hacking consultant demonstrated how a point-and-click attack can be used to gain access to a victim's Gmail account over a hotspot, using a tool to "sniff out" unencrypted information stored in cookies, and then using a separate tool to... [12 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: Police not taking it seriously
News Cyber crimes such as hacking, denial of service attacks and online fraud are not taken seriously enough by the police. Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below or emailing us in confidence at editorial@silicon.com.silicon.com is... [07 Apr 2008]
CPS hack attack guidelines: 'Confused'
News 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 limited by UK law. The CMA amendments criminalise the production... [04 Jan 2008]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News 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 more than 50-plus 'Suid' root programs. [14 Aug 2007]
Gary McKinnon: Hacker 'damages' are exaggerated
News McKinnon is currently awaiting extradition to the US for allegedly hacking into 97 US government computers, including military and Nasa systems. Although McKinnon has a clear interest in claiming those damages have been exaggerated, Peter Wood, an... [27 Apr 2007]
Nasa hacker loses extradition fight
News Gary McKinnon, the man accused of hacking into the computer systems of Nasa and other US governmental organisations, has lost his appeal against extradition to the US. The Extradition Act 2003 is a revised version of the original act, which was... [03 Apr 2007]
Windows at risk from fancy cursors
News Spyware and remote control tools that turn PCs into drones for the attacker are silently loaded onto vulnerable computers by tricking people to visit a rigged website or hacking a trusted site. The sample site is already offline; this could be a... [30 Mar 2007]
PM 'heart attack' email dupes bank customers
News Websense, which has been tracking the scam, has identified one of the servers used in the hacking attempts and is recording compromised IP addresses, as well as other data stored by the server, according to Camissar. [20 Feb 2007]
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in jail
News The long-overdue updating of the 1990 Computer Misuse Act also increases the sentence for hacking a computer from a maximum of six months to two years' imprisonment. The new law also makes it an offence to supply or make available any software or... [10 Nov 2006]
US man charged over Akamai DDoS attack
News The charges of hacking, or "intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorisation", carry potential penalties of up to two years' imprisonment and a $200,000 fine. A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial of... [25 Oct 2006]
How serious is HSBC's online banking flaw?
News Cardiff University claims that any account can be broken into within nine attempts of hacking the website, though first the hackers would need to plant a keystroke logger on the victim's PC. It is an extremely sophisticated attack that would... [10 Aug 2006]
Macs 'inherently more secure', say Mac users
News Following the analogy to graffiti artists although Apple is a smaller target wouldn't hacking it make a bigger splash? Judd said: "No OS is beyond a determined attack and, paradoxically, there is now a sizable segment of the IT industry with a... [07 Jul 2006]
'Ransomware' hackers to go unpunished?
News It's unrealistic for police to investigate every single incidence of hacking but their response in this case is disappointing. Robertson said: "This is the kind of attack that presumably would have been within the NHTCU's remit. [05 Jun 2006]
Are rogue wireless hotspots stealing business secrets?
News Yet even in banking environments basic security precautions are still being forgotten, potentially opening up companies to hacking attacks. And a separate survey by antivirus company Kaspersky Labs tested wi-fi networks in and across London and... [30 May 2006]
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