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RSS crackersHackers and Crackers: Who Can We Trust?
White Paper Both hackers and crackers have a vast amount of information at their fingertips. A hacker is a person intensely interested in the arcane and recondite workings of any computer operating system. A cracker is a person who breaks into or otherwise... [22 Feb 2005]
Introduction to Autorooters: Crackers Working Smarter, Not Harder
White Paper Crackers of all skill levels, especially those in pursuit of quantity and not quality, are sure to use them in the future. Autorooters are a new and very serious threat to network security. These tools will, unfortunately, become more refined... [03 Jul 2008]
Crackers Exploit Cisco LAN Switch Flaw
White Paper Cisco has warned users of a potential denial of service risk involving its popular Catalyst LAN switches. A buffer overflow vulnerability in Telnet option handling can be used to crash the process and force a Catalyst switch to reload. [25 Feb 2004]
Cracking Passwords to Enhance Security
White Paper Password crackers do follow a certain logic as they'll try the most common passwords first for example, they'll try the user's name forwards,backwards, and with a number, they'll try information in the user's GECOS field, and they'll try a list of... [25 Feb 2004]
Introduction to Intrusion Detection With Snort
White Paper As soon as someone discovers a new computer security vulnerability, hordes of crackers start knocking at the doors of computers worldwide to see if they can penetrate their defenses. The best way to catch the crackers in the act is to use an... [01 Nov 2006]
Indra: A Distributed Approach to Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention
White Paper These attacks, usually called cracker attacks or intrusions, start with crackers in-filtrating a network through a vulnerable host and then going on to launch further attacks. Crackers depend on increasingly sophisticated techniques like using... [10 Jul 2008]
Piracy crackdown an "empty gesture"
News Police from six countries swooped on suspects and raided several premises this week in a bid to catch crackers linked to the DrinkorDie group. DrinkorDie is only one of a number of groups - other talented crackers will come forward to fill the gap... [13 Dec 2001]
Git Along, Little Virii - How to Protect Your Computer from Dastardly Attacks
White Paper Virii are created by hackers or crackers who have the desire to prove something. Crackers are programmers who try to get into someone else’s system for their own gain. A computer virus is nothing more than a program of any length which modifies... [25 Feb 2004]
Fill your stockings online this Christmas
News The worst sites visited were Christmas crackers site Crackers.com, which was adjudged to have a poor choice of products and limited customer services, and The country Victualler, which failed to give any delivery details and even failed to put... [28 Nov 2001]
Hacker vandalism contest controversy
News It doesn't mean the crackers are at the beach. Hackers who break into computers and do other criminal activity are frequently referred to as 'crackers'. A call for online vandals to take part in a website defacement contest has some companies... [03 Jul 2003]
Activists cheer the acquittal of 'DVD Jon'
Comment Though the Johansen saga and the ElcomSoft case have no legal bearing on each other, activists are pointing to the two rulings as a sign that more judges and juries may consider the intent of code crackers rather than just the possible illegal... [09 Jan 2003]
Make Your Software Behave: CGI Programming Made Secure
White Paper Writing secure CGI scripts is a particularly important topic because crackers love to hack sites through Web servers (and other common services), and the best way to nail a Web server is through CGI Sound advice to keep your Web site from being... [25 Feb 2004]
An Introduction to Phishing
White Paper The term phishing was coined by 'crackers' to refer to the act of tricking people into revealing sensitive or private information. It relies on the fact that asking a large number of people for this information, will always fool at least a small... [26 May 2006]
Paranoia Vs. Transparency and Their Effects On Internet Security
White Paper Network scanning and corresponding tools evolved out of a necessity to counter new intrusion methods after they were commonly employed by system crackers. A scanner is simply security software that automates the process of making connections to a... [03 Jul 2008]
Nessus Vulnerability Scanner
White Paper Attackers such as script kiddies, hackers, and crackers are of course a major part of the problem. Internet "Insecurity" is a major problem in today's web of interconnected computers and networks. However, they are just that, a part of the problem. [11 Apr 2008]
