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Government IT system is a sitting duck

Government-appointed security firm highlights possible cracks in security, including an email system that could be seriously exploited Read more

24 July, 2000 by Will Knight

Another Microsoft Web site hacked

...software giant's US Web site may have become the victim of computer crackers Just days after a number of international Microsoft Web sites were... Read more

8 May, 2001 by Will Knight

PoizonBOx hackers leave e-envoy red-faced

...e-envoy were hacked and defaced on Tuesday by a group of computer crackers. The sites, including the e-envoy's site for intergovernmental policy... Read more

21 March, 2001 by Will Knight

Special: Denial of Service round-up

...been brought to their knees by a bunch of not particularly skilled computer crackers Read more

9 February, 2000 by Will Knight

Welcome to the world of RFID

...claimed bulletproof security for this information, it would be a target of computer crackers, and that simply isn't worth the risk. Other areas I... Read more

15 January, 2004 by John Carroll

Network defenders get stuck in to Honeynet challenge

...unknown executable given in the contest is typical of tools used by computer crackers, Mendel said the challenge provided a very disturbing insight into their... Read more

19 July, 2002 by Rachel Lebihan

News Schmooze: Welcome to Ghost Comdex

...really be putting bad ideas into the heads of angst-ridden teen computer crackers? "The Internet is very fragile," he said. "It would be very... Read more

16 November, 2001 by ZDNet UK

Dmitri case ushers in age of hacker crackdown

...and I already know the FBI is stepping up its actions against computer crackers." Caspar Bowden, a director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research... Read more

29 August, 2001 by Chris Holbrook

Experts question US vs China 'cyberwar'

...he adds. This is not the first international incident that has caused computer crackers to adopt a political attitude. Conflict in the Middle East last... Read more

4 May, 2001 by Will Knight

Celebrity sites defaced by Brazilian hackers

Computer crackers Prime Suspectz have defaced the official Web sites of actors Mel... Read more

19 April, 2001 by ZDNet Australia

Hackers target BT over ADSL delays

...Nato military base in Northwood in the UK was also compromised by computer crackers who claimed in a message posted to http://www.eastlant.nato... Read more

2 April, 2001 by Will Knight

Hackers attack Government Web site

Computer crackers broke into the British government's Web site for the European... Read more

12 March, 2001 by Will Knight

Crackers question moon landings

...Web site belonging to NASA -- the US space authority -- was attacked by computer crackers on Wednesday, who replaced the home page with the enigmatic question... Read more

7 March, 2001 by Will Knight

Crackers deface Burger King Web site

...to McDonalds instead. McDonalds has had its fair share of trouble with computer crackers, however. Last month its own site was hacked and defaced. The... Read more

2 March, 2001 by Will Knight

A Year Ago: Denial of Service round-up

...been brought to there knees by a bunch of not particularly skilled computer crackers The technique employed to topple these corporate monsters is an old... Read more

9 February, 2001 by Will Knight

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