Microsoft plugs 'enormous' hole
News A group of Polish hackers and independent security consultants, known as the Last Stage of Delirium, discovered the flaw and worked with Microsoft to fix it. Windows users should expect to have another update from Microsoft waiting for them on...
[July 17, 2003, 7:34]
Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack
News According to the blog, German hackers managed to route traffic directly to Georgia through Deutsche Telekom's AS3320 DTAG server for "a few hours" on Saturday, but this traffic was intercepted and rerouted through AS8359 Comstar, which is located...
[August 11, 2008, 13:51]
Hackers' code exploits Sendmail flaw
News A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list on Tuesday that can take advantage of a major vulnerability in the Sendmail mail server. For many years, security researchers and hackers have argued whether releasing...
[March 5, 2003, 7:55]
The sendmail overflow bug -- full analysis
News Although there were earlier alerts concerning this vulnerability, it was the group of Polish "ethical hackers" known as the Last Stage of Delirium that first published a proof of concept for this vulnerability and demonstrated how it could be used...
[March 17, 2003, 10:11]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News Neal Stephenson - nice enough guy, met him at Hackers, didn't get a chance to talk much - has this neat idea of a world where people have a digital interface to their heads. He was wearing khaki camouflage, he'd put boot polish on his face, he had...
[December 14, 1996, 7:00]
Avecho tempts fate with £10,000 hacking challenge
News The firm had offered $100,000 to anyone who could break its Web server, but instead hackers decided to break the registration server to control who entered the contest. In the past, many firms have crashed and burned with hacker challenges - in...
[September 27, 2004, 13:10]
Windows PatchGuard expected to be hacked soon
News Hackers will break through the protection mechanism soon after Microsoft releases Windows Vista, Aleksander Czarnowski, a technologist at Polish security company AVET Information and Network Security, said in a presentation at the Virus Bulletin...
[October 13, 2006, 10:15]
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
News Hackers managed to bypass the scheme soon after its launch. Kiwi shoe polish is still counterfeited and isn't exactly expensive -- it is all down to the size of the brand. Despite successfully shutting down a prolific trader in unlicensed software...
[May 22, 2006, 13:30]
