Can MS juggle privacy and security?
News There's no evidence that Microsoft is involved in anything so nefarious, and the company has consistently denied any malicious intent. The hole allowed any Web site to grab a visitor's instant-messaging nickname and buddy list, meaning a malicious...
[February 13, 2002, 15:43]
The Cheese worm: A welcome helper?
News In a file that the Cheese worm leaves on infected servers and which was subsequently posted to the Incidents list, the author wrote: removes rootshells running from /etc/inetd.conf # after a l10n infection.to stop pesky haqz0rs # messing up your...
[May 17, 2001, 9:56]
Microsoft next target of MyDoom
News The first of those parasites, dubbed the Zindos.A worm, was released on Tuesday with the intent of crippling Microsoft's main Web site. Besides propagating itself, the worm's main purpose apparently was to open a "back door" so that infected PCs...
[July 28, 2004, 8:30]
New Communicator bug found
News Andrews said Chiang is cooperating with the engineers at Netscape and his Web site, albeit an active one, is not malicious in its intent. They all enable a malicious Webmaster to program a site so that it intercepts data a visitor enters on a Web...
[July 28, 1997, 9:00]
'Good' worm fights MSBlast
News Despite the apparent lack of malicious intent, the worm still sends a great deal of unwanted traffic, as it tries to spread to other computers. That doesn't mean that such worms are a good idea, said Joe Hartmann, North American director for...
[August 19, 2003, 8:50]
Security holes: The danger within
News Whether incidents are due to malicious intent or inadvertent employee error, the result is the same: loss of revenue, productivity, and potential liability," said author Jack McCullough in a statement about the white paper.
[June 12, 2002, 9:50]
Staff shop bosses for using pirate software
News The UK is generally more willing to observe piracy regulations, with companies often suffering from poor software management as opposed to deliberate malicious intent. In the worst-case scenario, a company director could face two years in prison...
[May 24, 2001, 15:58]
Arson attacks hit BT network
News A BT spokeswoman told silicon.com: "There was obviously malicious intent. Malcolm Greenaway, another BT customer and director of IT and Internet firm Aquae Vitae, said: "We've already had an earthquake and storms this week, which have caused minor...
[October 23, 2002, 14:38]
Angry unmetered customers accused of inciting abuse
News It was not my intent to encourage malicious calls and if people have misused the information then that is regrettable," he says. Mike Ashworth claims he was responding to a need when he published the home telephone number of a systems director at...
[January 12, 2001, 14:39]
iDefense launches format testing kit
News The tools, called FileFuzz for Windows and SpikeFile and NotSpikeFile for Linux, could be used with malicious intent, but iDefense hopes they will be used to help protect users. I really do think this is a low-hanging-fruit area for vulnerabilities...
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
Weathering the Cyber Storm
News The Cyber Storm exercise included players from government at the federal, state and international level and key private sector participants to work through what would happen if there were significant cyberattacks that disrupted or impacted the...
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
Microsoft security service set for US debut
News Microsoft plans to start selling Windows OneCare Live in the US on Thursday, three years after it announced its intent to move into the antivirus market. Microsoft announced its intent to offer antivirus products in June 2003 when it bought...
[May 31, 2006, 9:45]
Virus Alert: How the Anna virus was created
News Using the pop-up interface, anyone with malicious intent can type in a name, an author, and an attachment. VBS Worm Generator (VBSWG) 1.50b is a standalone application that allows script kiddies, (malicious users with very little programming skills...
[February 13, 2001, 8:10]
Pre-emptive security prompts alarms
News But now that "zero-day exploit" is the name of the game, security experts struggle to devise ways to defuse malware and other nefarious intent before catastrophe strikes. AT&T notifies its clients within minutes of detecting malicious activity and...
[June 14, 2004, 11:20]
