Linux Hacks & Cracks - Page 135
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Charity group, Oxfam, was hit by a security attack yesterday in which the email details of 300 customers were downloaded. A spokeswoman for the group explained a friendly hack was suspected. The organisation is just the latest in a series of . . .
"Two Kazakhstan citizens were arrested in London and accused of breaking into Bloomberg LP's computer system in New York and trying to extort money from the financial data and news company." The new wave of "cyber-extortion" moves on. One . . .
Safeway's UK Web site is the latest major company site to suffer at the hands of the darker side of the Internet - the supermarket chain was reported this weekend to have had its 25,000-strong mailing list compromised.
A hacker-turned-activist arrested during the Republican National Convention last week has been released from jail. A Philadelphia judge reduced bail for "ShapeShifter" from $500,000 to $100,000 during a hearing Tuesday afternoon, clearing the way for the staff member of hacker-zine 2600 . . .
From all over the world, they make the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas. They have names such as Mudge, Null and Dark Tangent. Tattooed, pierced, tie-dyed and ready to brag, they wear motorcycle boots, leather and even kilts in the hot July desert sun.. . .
Say your day begins with a raid on your home or office by FBI agents. As they cart away your computer and everything connected to it, they tell you that you're a suspect in a computer hacking crime.. . .
As the long arm of the law reaches Napster and its lookalikes, programmers could be held responsible for what others do with their code. ... Shawn C. Reimerdes awoke on July 26, confident that his own fate had nothing to do . . .
Mafiaboy, the teenage Canadian hacker, was slapped with 64 new charges, when he walked into a Montreal court yesterday.
Some 250 Linux servers were found to have been infected with a hacking program used in denial of service (DOS) attacks, raising serious security concerns with the popular open source code servers. The Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) said yesterday . . .
Engineers were still trying on Thursday to restore control of the Myanmar (Burma) government Web site after hacktivists brought it down, the Associated Press reports.
The world of computer hackers is a constant cat-and-mouse game between "white hats" and "black hats." Some white hats use "honeypots" to learn about their enemy. Honeypots look like normal Web servers to a black hat, but they are really traps . . .
In a contentious keynote speech that created an uproar at the Black Hat Briefings security conference here yesterday, security researcher Marcus Ranum charged that the full disclosure of software vulnerabilities isn't improving computer security. Instead, Ranum said, it only encourages attacks . . .
Vandals have forced one of the premier open source salons to shut up shop. Kuro5hin is temporarily out of action while its volunteer management finds a way of coping with a variety of denial of service attacks sustained by the . . .
Last week, we were contacted by a reader who claimed to have taken bt.com, btinternet.com and gameplay.com offline through a denial of service attack. We checked it out and he wasn't lying. The anonymous person went to great length as to . . .
Enterprises hiring reformed crackers to expose their soft underbellies will only add to the more than $2.6 trillion lost worldwide annually because of security intrusions, warns professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. That's trillion -with a "T". The shift from business-to-consumer (B2C) to . . .
Controlled chaos broke out at Hope 2000, a gathering loosely defined as a "hacker convention." The meeting was a social stew consisting of thousands of geeks, social cast offs, media, law enforcement, digital underground celebrities, used-to-be's and wannabes, all tossed into . . .
In what has been described as a gross breach of consumer confidence, consumer watchdogs condemned lax security at Powergen Wednesday, for exposing the credit details of over 7,000 customers on its Web site. It is potentially one of the biggest online . . .
Most 16-year-olds spend their summers vacationing at camp or planning their next beer-tinged revelry. Not so Jon Johansen. The Norwegian teen hacker may testify Thursday in a landmark trial over the DVD-descrambling program he wrote, which Hollywood hopes to ban from . . .
Hacktivismo, a new international working group of hackers led by Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) member "Oxblood Ruffin," is developing a software application designed to circumvent censorship on the Internet. Speaking at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference . . .
The jewel of eWEEK Labs' Openhack e-commerce site -- the database -- has been cracked, and the hack has revealed a previously unreported hole in an operating system running some of the biggest Web sites in the world: Sun Microsystems Inc.'s . . .