MSDN Webcast: Preventing Attacks At The Application Level: Parameter Manipulation And Error Trapping (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast demonstrates the tools and techniques for parameter manipulation and shows how a hacker can use them to exploit a Web application. This webcast also explains how a hacker can gather sensitive data using unhandled exceptions and common...
[October 5, 2007, 1:00]
Preventing Hack Attacks: The Must-reads
News 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. Social engineering refers to an act in which a hacker tricks a user into disclosing a password...
[January 22, 2004, 9:55]
Should You Hire An Ex-hacker?
News Or, he'll detail how preventing DoS attacks takes more than a simple firewall: "It takes a network processor requiring a separate hardware device to mitigate high-speed DoS attacks," Magee explained. What should you look for in a hacker?
[June 17, 2002, 10:56]
Windows XP Slammed As Gift To 'zombie' Hackers
News Microsoft has embarked on a campaign known as the "war on hostile code", with the goal of preventing any hostile code from running on users' systems," the company insists. Gibson, who has been programming for over thirty years, was himself the...
[June 7, 2001, 10:58]
FBI Leads Cyber-vandal Hunt
News Reno, who declared that "preventing cybercrime is one of our top priorities," added that the FBI is working with local authorities and the companies involved in the attacks to locate the perpetrators.
[February 10, 2000, 8:57]
Cal State Hayward Expels Hacker Attacks With Intrusion Prevention
White Papers Preventing these attacks - and all the attacks in a hacker's bag of tricks - was Cal State Hayward's top priority when it decided to strengthen the barriers around its network perimeter. For thrill-seeking hackers, universities are common prey.
[May 4, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft Confronts Security Fears
News STPP is supposed to deliver corporations short-term and long-term tools for combating recent devastating virus attacks and preventing future outbreaks. And an insurance firm that protects companies against hacker damage recently decided to boost...
[October 4, 2001, 8:59]
Forensics Firm Warns Of 'the Inside Job'
News This is not just a question of preventing attack, but it can help greatly when it comes to tracing and seeking to prosecute someone for one. Often the best way for a professional hacker to cover their tracks is to implicate someone else in their...
[July 20, 1999, 10:51]
Libsafe Guards Against Linux Hijackers
News Preventing these attacks has historically involved the modification of the source code and recompilation. It's important to remember that a hacker needs to compromise a program that is run as root to get a root shell (which is almost always the...
[August 7, 2002, 8:52]
FBI Warns Of 'Pearl Harbour' Hack Attack On Net
News In the airport incident, a teen-age hacker cut off access to the airport's control tower, preventing runway lights from being turned on, Vatis told the committee. A top FBI official warned in a briefing before a congressional committee on Tuesday...
[March 26, 1998, 12:35]
Intel To Put Security On A Chip
News LT will protect data in a kind of vault as soon as it enters a PC, preventing it from being accessed by hackers. Visiting suspect Web sites, for example, would no longer pose the same risk because data stored and being processed on LT-equipped...
[October 14, 2002, 11:53]
Web Bookies Demand Higher Security Standards
News A firewall that can conduct stateful inspection of outgoing data packets should be able to spot when a PC has been compromised by a hacker and is being used to take part in a DDoS attack. Online gambling companies are urging ISPs to do more to...
[April 5, 2005, 16:55]
Hacker Speaks Out On Security Basics
News Pacing up an down the stage in a non-stop information-laden presentation at Hack 2002, held recently in Sydney, the "white hat" hacker known only as Rain Forest Puppy (RFP) reeled off a litany of security holes in operating systems and...
[March 25, 2002, 10:10]
Preventing The Hack Attack
White Papers As the number of residential broadband Internet access subscribers grows, numerous stories appear about hacker attacks in cable and DSL networks. Usually, hacker attacks are aimed at ISPs or corporate networks, but residential users are also at risk.
[January 2, 2007, 12:39]
