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Recognize And React To The Signs A Hacker Is Preparing To Attack Your Network
White Papers The list provides valuable information that will help you recognize, detect, and react to five common signs that a hacker is preparing to attack your network. Before an individual executes a serious attack against your network, he or she will...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
MSDN Webcast: A Hacker's View Of Your Web Applications Part 2: Web Hacking - Attack Scenarios And Examples - Level 300
White Papers By taking advantage of the public access to a company and using it to subvert the applications, hackers can gain easy access into the company's sensitive backend data. Firewalls and IDS will not stop such attacks because hackers using the Web...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Pro-China Site Hit By Hackers
News Has the mass hacker attack which began last Sunday claimed a high-profile victim in China? It also hinted that there was a political edge to the hacker attack, as Fang's past diatribes have also been aimed at "leading Chinese search engines...
[July 9, 2003, 9:39]
Amazon Subsidiary Admits Security Breach
News Amazon.com-owned book service Bibliofind.com restarted its Web site yesterday in the wake of a hacker attack that compromised some 98,000 customer records and forced the company offline. Bibliofind, which links buyers and sellers of hard-to-find...
[March 6, 2001, 9:49]
Blog Site Back Up After Hack Attack
News Pyra sparked up its popular Blogger.com site again Friday after shutting it down earlier in the day in response to a hacker attack. Pyra has not yet determined when the hacker first got access to Blogger accounts, but the attack appeared to have...
[October 28, 2002, 9:11]
Chapter 17: Hacker-Proofing Your Database
White Papers As you contemplate how a hacker might attack, you must "think outside the box. This paper details how the hacker thinks and operates - analyzing the anatomy of an attack. To understand your attacker, you must learn to think like your attacker.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Mixter: I'm Going To Talk With The FBI
News I will be talking to the FBI via phone, briefly, about the technical aspects of catching (those responsible for last week's) attack," the hacker -- who claims to be German -- wrote in an interview using Internet relay chat (IRC).
[February 15, 2000, 8:58]
Preventing Hack Attacks: The Must-reads
News Maybe the best lesson on what to do in a hacker attack comes from a professional (ethical) hacker. Armed with practical advice from folks who have been there and done that, you should be better prepared to prevent and deal with future hacker attacks.
[January 22, 2004, 9:55]
Microsoft Blames Adminstrators For Hacking Attacks
News Sheffield City Council, whose Web site was defaced by Herbless, refused to comment on the hacker attack. The software giant believes that the hacker -- called Herbless -- was able to gain control of the SQL servers because network administrators...
[August 21, 2000, 16:38]
No Clues On AOL Security Breach
News Essentially a cyber con job, the attack -- which came to light on Friday -- highlights once again the vulnerability of even the world's largest Internet services provider to the threat of hacker attacks.
[June 19, 2000, 9:17]
Smart Cards Arm Against Decryption Attacks
News With differential power analysis, or DPA, a hacker monitors variations in the electrical consumption of a card that performs encryption functions -- then performs reverse analyses to determine passwords.
[April 19, 2004, 9:35]
Vandals Deface Ex-hacker Mitnick's Site
News Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is learning firsthand that online scofflaws are a fickle lot. graffiti during Mitnick's time in prison -- broke into the Web server of the former hacker's security start-up, Defensive Thinking.
[February 11, 2003, 8:10]
Hacking Contest 'just Hype'
News The purported hacker contest awards points to vandal groups for defacing Web sites, with higher points awarded for sites that are run on less common servers. The so-called hacker challenge was issued by a single anonymous source, according to a...
[July 4, 2003, 10:04]
Special: Denial Of Service Round-up
News Hackers attack Microsoft site ISP confirms that Microsoft's new Israeli site, www.msn.co.il, was paralysed for an hour during the weekend as a result of a hacker attack. Mixter: A hunted hacker As FBI tracks the author of a program linked to last...
[February 9, 2000, 14:45]
Cyberattack Strikes Online Forum
News Web bulletin boards hosted by Ezboard are slowly coming back online after being hit by a hacker, the company's chief said. The hacker did not access any personal information, such as credit card numbers, of Ezboard users.
[June 10, 2005, 10:15]
Yahoo! News Hacked, Content Altered
News s acknowledgment that a hacker substantially altered a news story that appeared on its site. News, the hacker, Adrian Lamo, said he was acting to demonstrate Yahoo! For example, Lamo's altered story reported that the Russian hacker faced the death...
[September 21, 2001, 9:10]
A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Round-up
News Hackers attack Microsoft site ISP confirms that Microsoft's new Israeli site, www.msn.co.il, was paralysed for an hour during the weekend as a result of a hacker attack. Mixter: A hunted hacker As FBI tracks the author of a program linked to last...
[February 9, 2001, 6:06]
Web At Risk From New MS Flaw
News And an insurance firm that protects companies against hacker damage recently decided to boost premiums for customers who use Microsoft's Windows NT software. Any hacker can basically get system-level access, which is the highest level of access on...
[June 19, 2001, 8:30]
Hacker Gets What He Wants At Burger King Web Site
News The UK Web site of the fast food chain Burger King was defaced on Tuesday for the third time this year, this time by a hacker operating under the nickname of MrAgent. In place of Burger King's Flash-animated page, the hacker placed the message...
[June 27, 2001, 16:55]
Hospital Hacked - Records Stolen?
News The allegation we're hearing about is not consistent with any known hacker attack we're aware of," he said. Poulsen said the hacker, known as "Kane", tried to break into a string of hospitals this summer and also managed to crack a university...
[December 7, 2000, 16:05]
