Apple's Leopard Lasts '30 Seconds' In Hack Contest
News But hacking Leopard was not meant as an attack on Apple, according to Miller: "I use a MacBook all the time and that's what I used in the contest to attack the MacBook Air. Competitors in the hacking race were allowed to choose either a Sony laptop...
[March 28, 2008, 8:22]
Amazon Greece Fight Heats Up
News It doesn't mean I am hacking his site. Greg Lloyd Smith, the Greece-based businessman sued by Amazon.com for an allegedly "thinly veiled shakedown" over his Amazon.gr and Amazon.com.gr sites, says he is planning a countersuit against the e...
[August 20, 1999, 8:37]
Roundup: Networks Telecom, Without The Wires
News Government beefs up virus and hacking security Wed, 28th Jun The European Commission said on Wednesday it had blocked the planned $120bn merger of US telecoms giants WorldCom and Sprint because of competition concerns
[June 28, 2000, 15:32]
Flash, HTML, Ajax Vie For Victory In Web-app War
News But these technologies were designed for something else, and people are really hacking them to do more. People in the computer industry like to talk about competition, which, indeed, often does keep companies from growing complacent.
[August 12, 2008, 12:43]
Net Users Lose Anonymity Tool
News After announcing the service in 1998 at the Def Con hacking convention, it took the company almost 18 months to release the first version of the product. The package includes a personal firewall, a password manager, an ad manager and a cookie...
[October 5, 2001, 10:15]
Network Defenders Get Stuck In To Honeynet Challenge
News In a further attempt to enable defenders to learn from the hacking experience itself, The Honeynet Project, which was established by a group of computer security researchers, set up the Reverse Challenge.
[July 19, 2002, 9:53]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
News Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings", according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability.
[March 7, 2006, 9:00]
Fresh Mac Hacking Competition Launched
News Earlier on Tuesday, Schroeder said that most of the hacking attempts were from scripts and tools attempting to use common Web exploits, dictionary attacks against SSH, port scans and scans by security tools such as Nessus.
[March 8, 2006, 8:50]
Avecho Tempts Fate With £10,000 Hacking Challenge
News Korean Digital Works also suffered embarrassment in 2002, when suspicion arose over the running of its hacking competition. In the past, many firms have crashed and burned with hacker challenges - in 2001, Argus Systems failed to pay a Polish...
[September 27, 2004, 13:10]
Trade Groups Steal Antitrust Show
News Instead, it was a document quietly submitted to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson by two computer industry trade groups late Friday, a brief that proposes hacking the company into three distinct parts : an operating system company, an applications...
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback All in all I think that if there was more than one Apple for every 20 windows machines Apple would be screwed. Maybe one day I will do the same thing with my computer. I have just my account but I could enable the guest account for hackers to try...
[May 16, 2006, 17:19]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback I have used Windows all my life, and as much as i have a distaste for Microsoft, and there shotty work in the past, they have done a good job with xp, compared to linux and every other OS. I believe XP has provided a good amount of credability.
[March 8, 2006, 22:45]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback Probably not but I thought I would tell you about it anway. How long would it take a hacker to gain access of any operating system if they were given client access? This "test" was pointless. Participants were given local client access.
[March 7, 2006, 15:33]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback I would suggest that this so-called hacker take a look at this site instead: http://test.doit.wisc.edu/ You can make up any excuses you like, but if you hack this truly proper test, then I would consider you pretty l33t .anyone can hack a machine...
[March 7, 2006, 13:49]
Hacking-competition Site Downed During Contest
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. In fake defacements of six Web sites, titled "I panicked over the Defacement Challenge scare and all...
[July 7, 2003, 7:34]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback The kid has a point, I would seriously like to see any of you gaining root access with or without a user account on a HP-UX server.
[March 7, 2006, 16:06]
Glaser: Harmony Is The Way Forward
News I would say preliminary talks. RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser has survived longer than most in the Internet business, largely by pulling rabbits out of his hat when the competition least expects it.
[August 18, 2004, 11:30]
