Hack attacks on banks increase
News Hack attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with over a third of banks and financial services companies reporting a security breach in the last year, according to a new survey. The financial viability of many security vendors and complex...
[May 12, 2003, 15:19]
Start-up banks on hack-proof Linux
News The Allendale, New Jersey-based start-up released its EnGarde Secure Professional product on Tuesday, a version of Linux that comes with management tools and server software designed to thwart attacks.
[September 25, 2002, 9:39]
Researchers: Cyberattacks outstripping defences
News Speaking to the media in Kuala Lumpur at this week's Hack in the Box Security Conference, Lance Spitzner, president of the Honeynet Project, said malicious software writers have been producing sophisticated codes, motivated mainly by the prospect...
[September 7, 2007, 9:51]
Researchers demo 'easy' Windows-based ATM hack
News Gyan Chawdhary, senior security consultant with IRM, told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, that the shift among ATMs to modern PC infrastructure means it now only requires minimal programming knowledge to hack ATM machines successfully once...
[March 5, 2008, 8:56]
2001: The year of the virus
News Virus writers are now deciding to hack into the main routers and the DNS servers of the Internet -- if they manage to get onto this, they will own the Internet," said Neil Cowey, senior virus researcher at McAfee AVERT.
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Google flaw provides phishing hook
News This particular vulnerability is clever because of the encoding hack," said Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer at WhiteHat Security, which specialises in web application flaws and protection.
[November 28, 2006, 8:10]
Samsung site hosts Trojan, warns security firm
News Why not hack into a site that people are visiting that is a trusted brand? People are being preached to by banks not to trust links (in unsolicited emails) — that is something people are starting to follow.
[September 11, 2006, 16:05]
Italian hackers: Business or leisure?
News We.consider (ourselves) as computer specialists who like to hack systems in order to increase (our) acknowledgement and skill," he said. The individual admitted that Reservoir Dogs routinely broke into the servers of banks and government bodies.
[August 5, 2002, 12:04]
