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The New Threat: Attackers That Target Healthcare Organizations (and What You Can Do About It)
White Papers They're being targeted by financially motivated attackers that steal and sell valuable data - including identities - and computing resources. Armed with sophisticated tools, attackers exploit countless software vulnerabilities that exist in the...
[September 7, 2006, 3:18]
Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot
White Papers Massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) and phishing attacks get the headlines, but invisible attackers pose a far more common threat to your network. This 60-minute TechWiseTV video on demand from Cisco will show you how botnets work, how...
[January 30, 2008, 18:21]
Attackers take down SCO site again
News For the third time this year, unknown attackers have deluged the SCO Group's Web site with enough data to make it inaccessible. The company, known for its claim of ownership of critical pieces of code in the Linux operating system, said the attack...
[December 11, 2003, 8:00]
Mystery attackers strike Linux supercomputers
News Unknown attackers have compromised a large number of Linux and Solaris machines in high-speed computing networks at Stanford University and other academic research facilities, according to a university advisory.
[April 14, 2004, 9:05]
Web attackers knock out Microsoft sites
News Network attackers overwhelmed Microsoft's connection to the Internet on Thursday, causing traffic to the company's major Web sites to slow to a crawl. Siegel noted that a flaw in Microsoft's network design -- which was highlighted by Tuesday's and...
[January 26, 2001, 8:18]
'Unreal' critical flaw lets in attackers
News A security researcher warned on Tuesday of a "critical" flaw in a widely used piece of game software that could let attackers take over vulnerable PCs. Security company Secunia issued a bulletin warning of the flaw in some versions of the "Unreal...
[June 23, 2004, 9:15]
Attackers exploit 'extremely critical flaw' in Word
News An "extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000 is currently being exploited by malicious attackers, which could lead to remote execution of code on a user's system, security researcher Secunia advised on Tuesday.
[September 5, 2006, 17:00]
Gmail exploit may let attackers forward email
News A security vulnerability in Gmail may allow attackers to set up filters on users' email accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof-of-concept exploit posted on the Geek Condition website on Sunday.
[November 24, 2008, 11:51]
Linux holds out against attackers
News The results are probably due to two trends, said Lance Spitzner, president of Honeynet, which develops software for deploying computer systems as bait for online attackers. Secondly, attackers seem to be much more concentrated on Windows systems...
[December 23, 2004, 8:20]
Attackers seek weaknesses inside the firewall - Symantec
News Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec Security Response, said cyber-attackers are shifting their efforts from outside the intranet boundary to inside. The attackers are taking an increasing interest in intranet-facing private network services...
[October 14, 2003, 10:50]
FTP holes give attackers an easy way in
News When attackers put in a specially crafted search term, they can cause the computer to execute malicious code, said PGP Security. A bug in popular software used to transfer files between computers over the Internet could leave a door open to online...
[April 10, 2001, 12:34]
IE and MSN Messenger open door for attackers
News Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and MSN Messenger programs contain a security vulnerability that could be used by attackers to crash and possibly execute arbitrary code on a victim's system when they view a specially crafted image file.
[July 18, 2005, 9:55]
Attackers take down SCO site again
Talkback You people should really try to do a little research on these stories before you randomly cough them up on your website. Please see; http://www.groklaw.net/article.php? story=20031210163721614 Perhaps after reading you will realize your mistake and...
[December 11, 2003, 14:09]
Attackers exploit 'extremely critical flaw' in Word
Talkback The artical is a bit bias against Microsoft. Many are using newer MS offices and this exploit can only gain traction in a specific environment. Sounds like bush bashing.
[September 7, 2006, 2:28]
IE and MSN Messenger open door for attackers
Talkback I have a terrible thing on my pc, because of msn messenger, my host is in the black list. I really don't understand how and why - i havent done anything stupid. I understand computers, but this problem is difficult - even any spyware software can...
[July 18, 2005, 17:31]
Attackers take down SCO site again
Talkback SCO contradicts themselves. They claimed the attack was both a syn flood and a page request flood at the same time. This technically can't happen because if it's a syb flood then page requests would not be getting through enough to be a flood.
[December 11, 2003, 15:13]
IE and MSN Messenger open door for attackers
Talkback What can one do if you discover when clicking on some links, nothing happens? Then looking into the files, seeing things like dos.sys, bootlog.prv etc almost invisible
[July 19, 2005, 13:12]
Attackers target unpatched flaw in Excel
News Attackers are attempting to exploit an unpatched security hole in Excel that could allow someone to take control of a compromised computer, Microsoft said in a security advisory on Tuesday. The attack exploiting the Excel Unspecified Remote Code...
[February 25, 2009, 7:37]
Images open door to attackers
News Six vulnerabilities in an open-source image format could allow intruders to compromise computers running Linux and may allow attacks against Windows PCs as well as Macs running OS X. The security issues appear in a library supporting the portable...
[August 6, 2004, 8:50]
Attackers take down SCO site again
Talkback Why did you take SCO's word on this? There is overwhelming evidence no attack occurred. See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php? story=20031210163721614
[December 11, 2003, 13:54]
