hackers
RSS hackers5 years ago... Hackers offered cash prize
News Hackers from across the world are being invited to break into three Web servers - based in Singapore - and perform tasks including changing the text of a web page and transferring a file. The company challenged... [13 May 2004]
Hackers snatch users' info from online store
News A maker of popular role-playing games was forced to shut down its online store for four days after hackers pilfered email addresses, user names and encrypted passwords. White Wolf Publishing, creator of video and... [20 Dec 2005]
Hackers wreak havoc on Microsoft's 'flawed' network
News Hackers bombarded Microsoft servers, bringing the Microsoft.com and MSN.com to their knees for two hours on Thursday morning US time. The hackers' attack was similar to the one that brought down Amazon,... [26 Jan 2001]
Hackers expose flaw in aging IBM ecommerce software
News A programme created by the two hackers, enables outsiders to gain administrative rights to online shops. The security flaw affects code that was written using the IBM script language, Net.Data. Although IBM identified... [12 Mar 2001]
Hackers screw-up Formula One performance
News Hackers have severely hampered the Benetton Formula One team's results for this season, according to the outfit's technical director. He claimed hackers cracked the company's systems a year ago and... [17 Jul 2001]
Hackers hit high-profile web sites
News Hackers use distributed servers to bombard a target Web site with requests. I think the FBI has little chance of catching these hackers. Alastair Breward, partner in the IT and telecoms group at the... [09 Feb 2000]
Hackers deface Microsoft.fr
News Hackers on Sunday broke into a part of Microsoft's French website, replacing the front page with online graffiti. The attack was claimed by Turkish hackers using the handle 'TiTHacK', according to... [20 Jun 2006]
Hackers foil Windows security check
News Microsoft's efforts to curtail counterfeiting hit a snag when hackers discovered a new way to bypass its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), only days after the anti-piracy software's official debut. The representative... [01 Aug 2005]
Hackers aren't quite ready to wage war on censors
News A group of hackers has decided to pull the launch of its ambitious file-sharing project designed to trounce censorship. Originally the group promised to unveil the P2P software at the Def Con conference for... [28 Jun 2001]
Hackers resorting to password theft
News Hackers are increasingly resorting to social engineering techniques to obtain confidential passwords as businesses become better at locking down and patching their computer networks. He said that social engineering... [22 Oct 2003]
Hackers multiply Melissa virus threat
News Corporations over the world are under renewed threat from viruses, after hackers successfully mutated the Melissa code. Hackers managed to create the Melissa variants using source code from the original... [31 Mar 1999]
Hackers nab €800,000 in online banking attack
News Russian hackers have stolen €800,000 from Sweden's largest bank Nordea after a sophisticated phishing attack tricked some of its internet customers into downloading a Trojan horse that recorded their account login details. [19 Jan 2007]
Hackers: Unemployable or undervalued?
Comment Once again the debate has been opened up this week about encouraging hackers and virus writers to switch sides and start working in security. Many believe 'once a hacker always a hacker', suggesting that the... [30 Apr 2003]
Hackers cause blackout on FT.com web page
News A web page on FT.com has been shut down by hackers. Angel explained that the page is hosted by a third party - Mortgage 2,000, therefore it was unlikely that the hackers could have gone further into the... [27 Jul 2001]
Hackers turn to dictionary to invade Cisco WLANs
News But the problem with LEAP let hackers greatly reduce the number of possible password matches, thus making the dictionary attacks faster and easier, said Joshua Wright, a security expert who alerted Cisco to the... [15 Apr 2004]
