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Roundup: The summer of hacking
News ZDNet turns the spotlight onto these shadowy figures and turns the heat up: presenting the Summer of Hacking. SUMMER OF HACKING They're also having two of their biggest gatherings this summer -- Def Con in Las Vegas and H2K in New York.
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
Nokia releases 'invisible' Bluetooth security fix
News On Thursday, Nokia confirmed that it had released updates for five of its handsets and reiterated that it will issue fixes for all remaining vulnerable devices by the end of the summer. However, following pressure from customers, Nokia announced in...
[July 22, 2004, 14:35]
Ethical Hacking: Teaching Students to Hack
White Papers The discussion will conclude with a proposed model of ethical hacking instruction that will be used to teach a course in the summer semester of 2006 through the continuing education department at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute...
[June 9, 2006, 1:00]
A Year Ago: Back Orifice creator's new projects
News Take me to the Summer of Hacking Special 2000 BackOrifice 2000 is not the only program being released by the media-friendly hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow. The first, dubbed CDC Protector, is intended to block viruses and so-called Trojan Horse...
[July 14, 2000, 7:30]
Mitnick teaches 'social engineering'
News Take me to the Summer of Hacking Special It was the first talk Mitnick has given since his probation officer gave him permission to lecture on hacking, work as a security consultant and write articles on security.
[July 18, 2000, 11:14]
Minimal impact of Palm Trojan hides future danger
News Take me to the Summer of Hacking Special Nevertheless, Cluley believes, the Palm operating system remains vulnerable to future hacking and virus attacks. The malevolent program is disguised as a "crack" for a trial version of the GameBoy game...
[August 30, 2000, 14:37]
Silence the best security policy
News Take me to the Summer of Hacking Special Full disclosure is creating armies and armies of script kiddies," said Ranum, who called the creators of hacking tools "weapons dealers" who aren't really concerned with security.
[July 27, 2000, 9:06]
Company directors 'exposed' to computer crime
News Take me to the Summer of Hacking Special Lloyds of London last week announced plans to offer "hacking insurance" for firms in cooperation with US security company Counterpane. Integralis says that while businesses in Britain are regularly exposed...
[July 17, 2000, 16:10]
Hacking is greater threat than military attack
News It was criticised for its slow reaction to the Love Bug virus last summer. The UK government got a taste of the dangers of hacking last week when its European single currency Web site -- www.euro.gov.uk -- was plastered with insulting messages...
[March 30, 2001, 7:14]
Big Brother in the black box
News Take me to the Summer of Hacking Special Russia's black boxes will be used mainly to catch criminals ranging from "tax evaders to paedophiles", according to the FSB, although Russia has often been celebrated as international hotbed of hacking.
[July 13, 2000, 9:56]
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News McKinnon was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome last summer by Cambridge University autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen. Despite the diagnosis, the Home Office refused to halt McKinnon's extradition to the US to face charges of hacking 97 US military...
[February 25, 2009, 15:38]
No, Minister, the figures don't add up
Leader Release the figures in the summer, when nobody cares. I'm worried about all these hacking attacks on the Ministry of Defence. What hacking attacks might those be, Minister? Parliament might learn the truth about the state of the MoD's security?
[July 12, 2005, 13:45]
Virus writers get Slapper happy
News Since Code Red infected more than 350,000 servers last summer, computer worms have become the No.perceived danger on the Internet. People are doing a lot of variants," said Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer for network protection firm eEye...
[October 7, 2002, 7:44]
Internet attacks on the rise
News This summer, SirCam, Code Red and the Nimda worms have propagated widely and caused headaches for system administrators and people online at home. See the Viruses and Hacking News Section for the latest headlines.
[October 16, 2001, 8:50]
Third Sobig worm strikes, and more may follow
News Messagelabs, which offers email outsourcing to companies around the world, said it had stopped nearly 17,000 copies of the virus as of 14:00 British Summer Time, with 47 percent of those in the UK. Like its predecessor, Sobig.B, also known as Palyh...
[June 2, 2003, 15:28]
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
News Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site? For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Viruses and Hacking News Section.
[July 30, 2002, 7:43]
War of the Worlds Web site hacked
News A Brazilian hacker has defaced the Web site of Steven Spielberg's film version of HG Wells' novel War of the Worlds, which is set to be released in cinemas this summer. Security experts have said that Brazil is a hacking hot spot of the world.
[February 14, 2005, 14:10]
Experts warn of multiple computer attacks
News I would say that this summer it's the first time we've see so many boxes hacked running DDoS tools," he says. The danger of a mass Web attack may have been underestimated according to experts monitoring the spread of so-called denial of service...
[October 4, 2000, 14:14]
Games maker not suing over bug alert
News For example, last summer, Hewlett-Packard made legal noises when a group of hackers-cum-security-researchers released vulnerability information before the company had a patch ready. Epic and its employees engaged PivX and its researchers in a...
[February 12, 2003, 8:20]
Golden-oldie worms top the hit list
News Two computer worms found last summer topped the charts in March, highlighting the difficulty of eliminating the more successful digital pests from the Internet. For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking...
[April 2, 2002, 11:05]
