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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]
Hack Attacks Wash Out Confidence In Net
News In a similar fashion, new research suggests that waves of consumer fear triggered by last week's hack attacks will prove more damaging than the attacks themselves. The findings were released as President Clinton, meeting with computer executives at...
[February 21, 2000, 9:45]
Old Hack Haunts WebTV
News An HTML hack -- which had previously allowed attackers to command users' machines to send forged email -- caused renewed headaches for Internet-over-TV provider WebTV Networks this past weekend. The new spin on an old security hole allows cyber...
[March 21, 2000, 9:19]
Hack Attack On Capitalism... Not Likely
News You don't say to someone 'I'm going to hack your system. Threats of computer attacks on British financial institutions to coincide with Tuesday's WTO demonstrations in Seattle were played down by experts today.
[November 29, 1999, 16:25]
IM Users Hit By Widespread 'social Hack'
News Security experts have warned that a wave of hack attacks is striking tens of thousands of PCs via instant messenger (IM) or Internet Relay Chat (IRC) clients, using nothing more high-tech than old-fashioned social engineering.
[March 20, 2002, 12:04]
Debian Developers Locked Out After Server Hack
News The Debian GNU/Linux project has locked a number of its developers out of their system accounts following a security scare in which the hack of a key internal server was discovered this week. The lockout took place due to the fact a compromised...
[July 14, 2006, 15:25]
Police Investigate Charity Hack
News The charity now fears the hack attack will hit fund-raising for crucial aid projects in Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan. Police at Scotland Yard's computer crime squad are investigating the hacking of a UK charity Web site that has resulted in the theft...
[December 12, 2005, 14:00]
SDMI Hack Popular Despite Linux Boycott
News Still, Marti said he wouldn't encourage people to participate in the hack. A threatened Linux community boycott doesn't seem to be putting a chill on a hacking challenge sponsored by the music industry.
[September 19, 2000, 13:18]
Microsoft 'frightened' By Police XP Hack
News Microsoft has described the ease with which two officers from the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency managed to hack into Windows XP as both "enlightening and frightening". One of the officers, "Mick", remained behind a screen while connecting to...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Sony Reacts Quickly To Game Hack
News A duping bug is a hack that exploits a weakness in online games' code to dublicate existing items to effectively create counterfeit currency or other goods. Sony claims that a group of hackers illegally created a huge amount of Everquest II (EQ2...
[August 12, 2005, 18:00]
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 security breach on 17 August forced Ireland's largest ISP Eircom, to alter 30,000 customer Internet dial-up and email account passwords.
[August 29, 2000, 10:10]
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. SpreadFirefox.com, the community marketing Web site for the open source Firefox Web browser, was hacked earlier last weekend...
[July 15, 2005, 17:30]
Government Hack Attacks Dropping
News The Treasury said it had recorded one hack attack last year, and one in 2001-02 and 2002-03. The UK government's IT infrastructure continues to be targeted by hackers, new figures have revealed. In response to a series of parliamentary questions by...
[July 12, 2005, 9:15]
Anatomy Of A Hack Attack
Articles With the help of security experts, we recreate a typical hack attack on two large organisations and walk through the steps that the head of IT should follow in such a case. Monday, 9am Blackjack, a hacker working from an internet cafe in London, is...
[January 7, 2008, 15:39]
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]
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]
Researcher: 'Macs As Easy To Hack As To Use'
News "Macs are as easy to hack as they are to use", according to researcher Charles Miller. Miller and his colleagues at Independent Security Evaluators discovered the first known vulnerability within the Apple iPhone.
[August 14, 2007, 11:44]
Researchers Hack 'tamper-proof' PIN Terminals
News Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN terminals: the Ingenico i3300 and the Dione Xtreme. In a research paper seen by ZDNet.co.uk, the researchers outline the hack.
[February 26, 2008, 17:34]
FTSE Dismisses Web Site Hack
News This is why it wasn't particularly hard to hack. Leading financial index the FTSE has dismissed a recent attack on its Web site as no more than a juvenile prank and reassured customers that no vital data was at risk.
[December 11, 2000, 15:06]
Researchers Hack Microsoft Wireless Keyboards
News Researchers from the company have said they are also close to being able to use the hack to control affected computers remotely. The protocol for securing some of Microsoft's wireless keyboards has been cracked, opening up the possibility of...
[December 5, 2007, 11:43]
