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The Net's new neighbourhood watch
News The difficulty in separating real attackers from things that go bump in the night could make even Netophiles hit their PC power switches in panic. One solution to that problem: Zone Labs is marketing a version of its ZoneAlarm firewall that can be...
[December 6, 2000, 12:09]
Windows Media Player flaw could expose sensitive files
News This flaw does not allow attackers to do more than tap into the files on the vulnerable systems, but that could be a devastating disclosure for some companies. Since this Media Player flaw doesn't allow attackers to execute code or take over other...
[July 8, 2003, 15:46]
Spread Firefox hacked again
News The Spread Firefox Team became aware this week that the server hosting Spread Firefox, our community marketing site, has been accessed by unknown remote attackers who attempted to exploit a security vulnerability in TWiki software installed on the...
[October 4, 2005, 17:25]
Report: US most prolific source of online attacks
News The company also found that 51 percent of all known servers used by attackers to buy or sell stolen personal information, such as credit card or bank account numbers, are located in the US. Phishing, an attempt by attackers to trick people into...
[March 20, 2007, 8:25]
Web outage blamed on zombies
News Using compromised home computers, the attackers sent a flood of data to the DNS servers, preventing them from providing that translation and effectively shutting surfers out of the four companies' pages, according to Akamai.
[June 17, 2004, 9:35]
IE and Firefox hit by bug
News Attackers could exploit the IE or Firefox flaw using cross-site scripting, said Monty Ijzerman, senior manager of McAfee's Global Threat Group. The attackers, as a result, could swipe sensitive information, such as online banking data, from one of...
[June 30, 2006, 10:10]
Dangerous CVS hole identified
News The security hole allows attackers to take control of a CVS server and alarmingly, it may also allow anonymous attackers to fiddle with open-source code at the development level. This allowed them to work around the vulnerability hence protecting...
[January 23, 2003, 8:54]
Training the cyberwar troops
News The attackers weren't foreign-sponsored spies or hackers creeping through the Pentagon's computer systems, but a Department of Defense "red team" attempting to poke holes in a mock military network run by students of the Naval Postgraduate School...
[April 29, 2002, 12:38]
Software heals systems while they work
News We can't prevent attackers from getting in, but with this technology, the database can heal itself on the fly. We simulated attackers' behaviours on a database and then monitored the response of the database," Dr.
[November 1, 2002, 8:17]
Honeynet Project sweetens hacker bait
News Right now, the attackers are not worried because there is only one honeynet," said Lance Spitzner, a senior engineer with Sun Microsystems and leader for The Honeynet Project. The more we deploy, however, the faster we will find (the attackers).
[July 18, 2001, 9:46]
Sasser attacks provide fodder for new worm
News Dabber is not the first worm to exploit back doors into compromised systems left behind by previous attackers. Finally, the worm will establish a back door into the software to allow knowledgeable attackers to take control of the system.
[May 14, 2004, 9:10]
Three men arrested in botnet probe
News It was surreptitiously installed on computers and let the attackers remotely control infected systems and steal confidential information by logging keyboard entries, prosecutors said. These attackers have been pulled out of the mix, but their...
[October 10, 2005, 10:10]
Firefox top for bugs in 2008, but quickest at fixes
News These 'zero day' vulnerability disclosures contain information that can be used by attackers to write exploits for the flaw. Mozilla developers said the update fixes six critical vulnerabilities found in Firefox 3.0.6, the most serious of which...
[March 6, 2009, 15:20]
Blogging sites harbouring cybercriminals
News The free services are an anonymous and affordable way for attackers to store and spread their malicious code. The attackers typically lure people to the malicious sites by sending enticing emails and instant messages.
[July 26, 2005, 9:10]
Linux flaw allows local attacks
News Such local vulnerabilities are considered less severe than remote ones that let attackers over a network take over a machine even if they don't have a basic user account on it. Earlier this week, programmers disclosed a vulnerability in the Samba...
[March 20, 2003, 11:03]
Flaw in O2 routers could lead to hijack
News On his blog, he wrote that the O2 Wireless Box II and Wireless Box III, customised versions of the Thomson TG585 and TG585n routers respectively, suffered from "a serious security vulnerability that allows remote attackers to access a home user's...
[September 3, 2009, 15:05]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback A Gentoo Linux project server has been compromised by attackers and subsequently pulled offline for a full forensic analysis. The attack and subsequent compromise comes a after several machines belonging to the Debian Linux project were breached by...
[January 28, 2004, 11:40]
Microsoft says security programme is speeding fixes
News Meanwhile, Microsoft has yet to plug a critical ActiveX hole in Office that it warned two weeks ago attackers were exploiting to take control of PCs by luring Internet Explorer users to malicious websites.
[July 28, 2009, 9:41]
Facebook worm exploits Google's reputation
News In order to achieve this, the attackers had to register their own Google Reader accounts either by themselves or through automated methods using phishing sites or so-called Captcha solvers. He said he suspects the reason is that the attackers might...
[October 30, 2008, 9:42]
Instant messaging and P2P attacks skyrocket
News Several vulnerabilities allow attackers to compromise client systems through Web pages containing embedded malicious code, while others can enable easy and almost undetectable installation of spyware, which could allow attackers to extract...
[October 1, 2003, 17:49]
