Hook, Line And Sinker: Phishing Attacks Going “Professional”
White Papers This paper from Trend Micro details the evolution of phishing scams, from John “Cap’n Crunch” Draper’s phone phreaking of the 1970s to the sophisticated spoofed e-mails and cloned Web sites favoured by phishers today.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Report: Low-tech Hacking A Big Problem
News Winkler's relatively easy break-in to the unnamed bank, which relied more on bluffing, or "phreaking," than technology, underscored one of the themes at this week's Black Hat Briefings '98 conference in Las Vegas: Technology is only a part-perhaps...
[August 3, 1998, 10:15]
Digital Security White Paper
White Papers Several issues are discussed, including security policies, encryption, virus, Trojan horse, worm, zombie's agents, hacking, phreaking, physiological hack, DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service), security standards, the NSA, and much more.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Phrack's Closure Worries Security Industry
News In its earliest days the magazine dealt with issues such as phone phreaking - one of the earliest forms of high-tech hacking, as applied to telephone networks, which came to prominence in the 1960s - but latterly it had become a community space...
[July 12, 2005, 9:35]
Security Expert: Beware Virtualisation In 2008
News We think we'll end up seeing theft-of-service attacks, like old-style phreaking," said Marcus. Security company McAfee has predicted that virtualisation will be an area of security concern in 2008. McAfee told ZDNet.co.uk that companies need to...
[November 19, 2007, 15:57]
Cyberwarfare 'a Reality In 12 Months'
News Historically, SCADA interfaces have been connected by circuit-switched networks and were really open to attack only from hackers manipulating the phone system -- so-called phreaking or war-dialling. The increasing use of IP technology in power...
[January 15, 2004, 11:50]
Hackers Rule OK
News Although now largely outdated, the book is a testament to the heritage of phone phreaking in Britain and contains memorable guides to subverting all manners of computer and telecommunications networks.
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Do Hackers Have A Role In Corporate Security?
News I heard (Mitnick) call phone 'phreaking' a hobby. A panel discussion at the RSA Conference on the role of hackers in security tried to answer that question, but the debate on Wednesday turned into a verbal boxing match, reflecting the deep divide...
[April 17, 2003, 11:22]
Net Unprepared For Cyberterrorism - US Officials
Talkback What we are facing is the threat of hacking, phreaking, malicious code and denial of service attacks - none of which have been sponsored by states, foreign governments, or subnational or transnational organizations.
[December 8, 2003, 14:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Over the years, Phrack has stayed true to its countercultural soul, interspersing quotes from Chomsky with detailed recipes for exploiting Windows buffer overflows - and if you've got the stomach for it, you can pull practically a complete history...
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
High-stakes Hacking, Euro-style
News Phreaking" is stealing telephone services. Maybe he ends up in court, and even in handcuffs -- but he doesn't end up hanging from a tree. Not the case in Europe, where a legendary 27-year-old German computer hacker was found hung by his own belt in...
[October 25, 2000, 9:31]
