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Hack attack on capitalism... not likely
News You don't say to someone 'I'm going to hack your system. Sometimes the most primitive methods of attack such as filling someone's voice mail quota or sending a 40,000 document to a fax-machine have the most damaging potential.
[November 29, 1999, 16:25]
Italian Senate hit by hack attack
News The Italian Senate has been the subject of a hack attack by cybercriminals who uploaded images of gay porn onto screens all around the senate building. The hack was made possible due to an infection by a variant of the Rbot worm, a backdoor Trojan...
[November 24, 2004, 16:00]
Irish hack attack lands teenager in trouble
News Police investigators in Ireland are questioning a teenager following the country's first major hack attack. The attack could have granted access to customer account user names and passwords. The security breach on 17 August forced Ireland's largest...
[August 29, 2000, 10:10]
Blog site back up after hack attack
News But Pyra believes the hack was a fairly low-level attack that didn't compromise outside accounts or credit card information, Shellen said. The hack compromised individual accounts, locking out site users from their blogs.
[October 28, 2002, 9:11]
Mozilla issues warnings after hack attack
News The hack is an embarrassment to Mozilla, which uses security as the main selling point for the Firefox Web browser. The attack actually occurred on Sunday but was not discovered until Tuesday, according to the email alert.
[July 15, 2005, 17:30]
News Burst: Irish hack attack lands teenager in trouble
News Police investigators in Ireland have questioned a teenager following a computer attack on the country's largest Internet service provider Eircom, earlier this month. The assault was carried out on 17 August and forced Eircom to alter 30,000 of its...
[August 29, 2000, 9:27]
WinAmp hack attack warning released
Talkback I still use Winamp as it is better than Windows media player or Realplayer which is loaded with spyware (The spyware plugins which winamp had gone now since nullsoft removed all entrys by Wildtangent) but i noticed all the times i search for skins...
[November 30, 2004, 15:16]
WinAmp hack attack warning released
Talkback All versions above 2.X were clunky anyhow. Once again, it pays to be a retrogrouch.
[November 27, 2004, 0:18]
WinAmp hack attack warning released
Talkback I stopped using Winamp a while ago and I'm glad I bailed when I did. The program has been nothing but trouble since Nullsoft were put into slave labour by AOL.
[November 26, 2004, 12:33]
Internet Explorer is the number one hack attack
News According to security company ScanSafe, the number one hack in the second quarter was Exploit.HTML.Mht, which was used to target almost twice as many organisations as other exploits. Microsoft Internet Explorer exploits represented the highest...
[November 2, 2004, 16:39]
FBI warns of 'Pearl Harbour' hack attack on Net
News Vatis, speaking before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, ran down a laundry list of recent hacking incidents, from breaches in Department of Defence systems to a hack that disabled telecommunications systems at a regional Massachusetts airport.
[March 26, 1998, 12:35]
USA Today investigating hack attack
News The hack puts Gannett-owned USA Today in with a high-profile crowd of victims of media hacks, including The New York Times' site. Lamo was also behind a hack that altered a news story on Yahoo! Newspaper USA Today said on Friday that one or more...
[July 15, 2002, 8:59]
Hack attack bad news is good news for Net security stocks
News In the past two days, a number of prominent Internet sites have experienced service outages for several hours. Yahoo! eBay, Amazon.com, CNN.com and Buy.com have all been victimised this week. The FBI, which is investigating, announced a news...
[February 9, 2000, 18:31]
Hack attack leaves ISP's future in doubt
News Cloud Nine was forced to shut down its operations this week after becoming the victim of a Denial Of Service attack. In a Denial of Service attack, hackers attempt to disable a network or Web-connected computer.
[January 23, 2002, 11:13]
WinAmp hack attack warning released
News Playlist files for the WinAmp player could contain a new flaw, security firm Secunia said this week. The company advised people to remove the associations in the program for the ".cda" and ".m3u" extensions in order to avoid being bitten by the bug...
[November 25, 2004, 11:40]
OpenOffice confirms hack attack risk
News OpenOffice.org has confirmed a buffer overflow issue that could allow remote attacks. The problem in its freely distributed productivity applications has been fixed, the organization said late on Tuesday.
[April 14, 2005, 12:40]
SAN misconfiguration opens door to hack attack
News IP-based storage area networks provide exciting opportunities but also present a security risk according to Brice Clark, vice president of storage technology, Hewlett-Packard. During a panel session at Veritas Vision 2002, Clark warned that if an...
[May 2, 2002, 10:14]
News schmooze: May Day hack attack falls flat
News A police spokesman famously remarked on Tuesday that anarchists don't get up very early in the morning, and that must be doubly true for hackers. While anti-capitalist protesters at least made a scene in the streets of London this May Day, the...
[May 4, 2001, 12:51]
Hack attacks: Develop your attack response strategy
News High-stress situations -- like a hacker attack -- will either bring out the best or the worst in a net admin. But if you've armed yourself with a plan, you'll be much more likely to make the right decisions and take the appropriate steps if an...
[July 14, 2003, 10:31]
The Day Ahead: Hack attacks become branding for Net firms
News The great hack-a-thon (see Denial of Service round-up) continues as the largest sites on the Web get hit by the dreaded Denial of Service attack. The hack attack probably distracted investors from focusing on the land mines disclosed in regulatory...
[February 10, 2000, 11:53]
