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Security and HackingNews items brought to you by ZDNet
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Hacks, Cracks & Cyber Crime
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The real online battleground
There's another world war brewing, and most of us don't even know it. Yet. Militant groups now use tools of the hacking trade to attack governments and businesses.

Hackers poised to land at wireless AirPort
Researchers have found ways to crack the Wi-Fi wireless technology, know to Apple users as AirPort. More than 10 million users are expected by the end of 2001.

Beat the experts: Hackers infiltrate Bugtraq security list
A Trojan horse posing as a security tool slips past SecurityFocus.com, moderator of the Bugtraq list, and the mildly malicious code is sent to 37,000 users.

Network Associates hit with DoS attack
Two days after it issued an advisory warning of holes in a key piece of Internet software, Network Associates was the target of a denial of service attack.

  CERT issues advisory on Net server software

 January 2001
Microsoft repels more attacks
The denial-of-service attacks came on the heels of 22.5 hours of inaccessibility to the sites by users due to a Microsoft technician's mistake last Wednesday.

DDoS attack causes latest Microsoft site troubles

Microsoft Web sites still limping

Web attackers knock out access to Microsoft sites

Microsoft: Human error caused DNS failure

Microsoft Web sites knocked offline

Web apps pose security threat
IT managers beware: The next wave of hacking schemes focuses on a difficult area to defend: Web applications.

Defenses still weak against DDoS attacks
One year after Mafiaboy allegedly launched a series of distributed denial of service attacks against leading Web sites, serious vulnerabilities remain.

Close calls, but no cracks
Reporting the latest developments in its security challenge, eWEEK Labs says Openhack III is still unscathed, but some hackers are changing their tactics.

Openhack III bowed but not broken

Openhack III: Come and get it

Hacker 'MagicFX' on 16-count charge
Feds allege Los Alamos National Laboratory employee is the hacker who defaced eBay.com and hacked Exodus, Juniper and Lycos.

NASA not amused by Web vandalism
The agency's cybercrime unit arrests a suspected vandal for defacing the space agency's site for human resources--and pointing out a security hole in the process.

 December 2000
Egghead: Hackers didn't get credit cards
The online retailer said that an intruder failed to make off with any of its database of 3.7 million cards.

Egghead customers: Dumb's the word

Egghead cracked by credit-card hack

Hospital hacked -- records stolen?
Kevin Poulsen claims that private medical records were stolen from a major Seattle hospital. Hospital admits a break-in but disputes the theft.

Hackers caught in security 'honeypot'
Security pros use HoneyNet Project to learn tricks of the hacking trade and raise corporate awareness: '95 percent of a security practitioner's job is convincing people to take (these threats) seriously.'

2001: Year of the killer hack attacks?
2000 is ending as it began, with a DDoS attack threatening a big part of the Net and failing security efforts fueling IT fears. More is expected in 2001.

Experts ponder the Microsoft attack
The trail of the Microsoft attack leads to St. Petersberg, Russia, and will probably end there.

Extortionist targets Creditcards.com
A hacker called 'chad' leaves the online credit card clearing house hanging after exposing more than 55,000 credit card numbers. The FBI is investigating.

 November 2000
Secure your work
Avoid the Microsoft nightmare scenario.

MS confirms new security breach

After hack, Microsoft mistakes linger

Cracker jacked!

Republican Web site hacked on eve of election
The Republican National Committee's Web site was hacked early Tuesday morning, with a page containing a lengthy diatribe against the GOP put in its place.

'Hacktivism': Mideast cyberwar heats up
Pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian sites continue to be hit as hacktivists go beyond mere Web defacements and denial-of-service.

 October 2000
Industry reaction to Microsoft hack: It will only get worse
Security experts and industry observers were uniformly glum about the consequences of the major hack of Microsoft's network. In short, there's no silver lining.

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Microsoft can't spin this worm

The Microsoft hack: Welcome to the paper house

Microsoft break in

U.S. authorities probe Microsoft hack

Microsoft hack: Was source code compromised?

Ballmer says break-in 'not damaging'

MS claims hacker was watched

MS intruder may elude authorities

Scourge of the Internet Age: ID theft
But a new Web-based system will notify users by e-mail if their data is being misappropriated; the FTC is attacking the problem, too.

Flat-footed Feds can't catch a thief
A federal council established more than a year ago to coordinate governmental law enforcement efforts against intellectual property theft has been hobbled by turf battles.

 September 2000
Mitnick to IT managers: 'Everybody is suspect'
In his first speech since being released from prison, infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick told IT managers that security means educating every single employee.

'Dark Knight' busted for NASA hacks
A man who allegedly hacked into ''hundreds, maybe thousands'' of U.S. government, NASA and university computers is arrested.

This port is closed
Better check these ports before the hackers dock into your network.

Hackers forming zombie army
CERT Coordination Center says vandals are exploiting vulnerabilities in Unix systems -- preparing denial of service attacks.

OPEC Web site defaced
The cracker responsible for the OPEC attack -- Fluxnyne -- defaced the site in order to draw attention to the worsening fuel situation.

Western Union data heist: 'Human error'
No sheriff to stop this robbery. Days after it adds new e-commerce services, Western Union discovers 15,700 credit card numbers stolen by online thieves.

News Brief: Western Union's Web site hacked
Western Union discovered on Friday that its site's security had been compromised by hackers.

HK companies need to take security seriously
Computer hacking is on the rise in Hong Kong but companies have prevented such incidents becoming public.

DDoS attack targets chat, Linux boxes
A distributed denial-of-service tool has been discovered in the wild and is spreading. Up to 400 hosts running the 'Trinity v3' agent have been reported.

 August 2000
Openhack gets cracked!
An Austrian exploits two previously unknown security holes in e-store program to score a victory in eWEEK's hack this contest.

Openhack: JFS is back on the attack
Last year's winner of eWEEK's Openhack challenge is back on the hunt, seeking vulnerabilities in Akopia's MiniVend e-commerce storefront.

Openhack challenge: Lessons learned
When it comes to security, build for success, but plan for failure. That's one of many lessons IT can learn from eWEEK Labs' Openhack challenge.

Openhack: Tough but not invincible
Details offer insight into system vulnerability

Performance check
A breakdown of the Openhack components' performance under attack.

Hackers won't give Pentagon a break
U.S. Defense Department pleas to computer hackers to quit mischief-making appear to be falling largely on deaf ears.

 

 

        
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