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Grey Hats, Black Hats, and Script Kiddies
News According to Mark Loveless, Senior Security Analyst for Bindview, the bulk of the hacking community is comprised of "grey hats" who, for the most part, respect the law. Grey hats experiment with the grey areas as a means of learning more," says...
[April 5, 2000, 13:59]
The Security Ecology
News This is a controversial practice; while most hackers at least give software companies a chance to release a patch before announcing their finds, many argue that bug reports provide the black hats with tools they wouldn't otherwise have.
[April 5, 2000, 14:47]
Breaking Windows for better security
News In a world where "white hats" are the security do-gooders and "black hats" are the hard-core villains, the hackers at Blue Hat were hardly representative of the dark side; if they had any pigment at all, it was no more than a tinge of grey.
[June 21, 2005, 12:55]
Boosting morale pays off for everyone
News One was the battalion's black hats, from which they took their name, the Wisconsin Black-hats. Low morale among technology staff is likely epidemic today, thanks to years of layoffs, extended work schedules, declining profits, cancelled projects...
[February 4, 2002, 11:38]
Defend your network against idle scanning
News Black hats employ several stealth scanning techniques, and one of those threats is the idle scan. If you don't use ingress and egress filtering, you're an easier target for black hats and wannabes on your own network to attack the rest of the...
[September 30, 2005, 16:55]
What can you learn from a hacker site?
News Black hats aren't stupid, so remember your mother's advice and don't talk to strangers. The black hats have a great assortment of tools -- unfortunately for those of us who've been on the wrong end of them.
[January 20, 2004, 10:50]
Data Security Summary January to June 2005
White Papers One particular trend in malware-writing from the black hats is the rapid increase in new trojans and bots. Unlike the more indiscriminate assaults by viruses and worms, trojans can be delivered with precision to target organisations via email...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
Hackers: Firefox has JavaScript flaw
Talkback I'm getting sick and tired of "black hats" expressing their "freedom" to screw up the rest of the world to teach everyone a lesson about how fragile things really are and how we're all ignorant dolts who don't deserve the keyboards in front of us.
[October 2, 2006, 13:52]
Breaking Windows for better security
Talkback How would the world fare if the black hats decided they hated Unix based systems as much as Microsoft? People have a choice in Life to do the right thing, cyber crime is no different to normal crime, people choose to commit not because they see a...
[September 9, 2005, 12:46]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For those who like their heroes in white hats and their villains in black, Microsoft's anti-spyware efforts are kicking up a disturbing amount of grey dust. Wednesday 25/5/05 Take today's story, that MS is trying to make it hard for spyware...
[May 27, 2005, 19:10]
SSH glitch gives 'skeleton key' to networks
Talkback I'm on perhaps a dozen highly technical security lists (working in the field) and I have seen no suggestion that this vulnerability is even in the wild (has a working exploit) let alone that black hats have been using it for months.
[September 18, 2003, 15:47]
Paraben's Photo Wizard
Downloads You can even change a color photo to black & white and enhance objects (like roses and hats). Take your black & white photos and color them to make them look like real. Features include: Magically color any photo, whether it's black & white...
[August 17, 2004, 1:20]
Mozilla fixes 10 security flaws
Talkback Their public bug bounty, in particular, is an excellent way of getting the white hats to find any bugs before the black hats get to them. Compare the Mozilla security fix process to the Microsoft security fix process.
[September 16, 2004, 14:05]
Be aware of wireless threats
News To remain protected against such black hats, you need to stay on top of the latest wireless security threats - and make sure your users do the same. For example, most security professionals are aware of the man-in-the-middle attack, which occurs...
[October 21, 2005, 16:15]
Tool enables covert communications
News If you have something to hide, you would use this -- so it could help black hats (criminal hackers). A program called NCovert uses spoofing techniques to hide the source of communications and the data that travels over the network -- a potential...
[August 1, 2003, 13:10]
Wireless safety needs good sense, not sensationalism
Leader The best lesson from the Black Hats is that the most important component for planning security is one gram of crystalline sodium chloride. The lesson's not been lost at the Black Hat computer security event in Los Angeles, where a vulnerability in...
[August 3, 2006, 15:20]
TippingPoint to offer bug bounty
News We don't want to work with black hats or illegal groups. The company plans to announce the programme on Monday and celebrate the launch with a party in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the first day of the annual Black Hat Briefings an event for security...
[July 25, 2005, 15:05]
iDefense launches format testing kit
News This is definitely for the white hats. Flaws in how applications handle those file formats are drawing interest among security researchers, according to speakers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
Viruses, worms, and Trojans return with a vengeance
News Apparently, black hats were taking a rest and thinking up new attack modes -- I've seen a lot of online talk about new infections emerging in the past week or two. It's Sobering news as viruses, worms, and Trojans emerge from an apparent holiday...
[June 9, 2005, 11:25]
Anti-Sniff software inadequate - BugTraq
News He says "If Anti-Sniff becomes popular, I'd estimate only a few months grace before Black Hats [hackers/crackers] have made a reduced-functionality sniffer which slips under Anti-Sniff's radar. Anti-probing software released by hacking group L0pht...
[July 27, 1999, 11:28]
