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Vandals Mutate Ramen Linux Worm
News Online vandals may have modified the Ramen Linux worm discovered last week to automatically deface sites with their own Web pages, one expert said Monday. Ramen also eliminates the vulnerable programs from the server, thus protecting itself from...
[January 23, 2001, 9:18]
How The Cyber Vandals Zapped Yahoo!
News offline Monday was gaining in popularity among cyber vandals. The National Institute of Standards and Technology warned four months ago that the form of computer attack that knocked Yahoo! Known as "distributed coordinated attacks" the tactic is...
[February 8, 2000, 8:14]
Vandals Deface Ex-hacker Mitnick's Site
News Twice in the past two weeks, online vandals -- like the ones who tagged many Web sites with "Free Kevin! Ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is learning firsthand that online scofflaws are a fickle lot. graffiti during Mitnick's time in prison -- broke into...
[February 11, 2003, 8:10]
Getting (Real) Tough On Virus, Vandals, Trojans And Other Threats
White Papers Standard anti-virus products alone cannot provide such comprehensive, proactive protection at your email virtual border. Implement the SuperScout Web and Email Filter rule policies listed in this document for optimal protection against viruses and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Al-Jazeera Struggles Against Continued Attacks
News Al-Jazeera, the Middle Eastern news network, is likely to remain inaccessible via the Internet for as long as online vandals continue to deluge the company's Web sites with data, security experts said on Thursday.
[March 28, 2003, 8:14]
New Bagle Opens Another Spam Backdoor
News Unknown online vandals with an apparent connection to spam email have created a new version of the Bagle computer worm that has spread somewhat successfully in the past 24 hours, antivirus companies said on Thursday.
[July 16, 2004, 8:35]
The New Age Of Hacktivism Dawns
News Politicians may not pander to them and experts may discount their opinions, but online vandals are getting the message out about what they think is important: Increasingly, that's politics. On the eve of the US elections, vandals defaced the home...
[November 8, 2000, 14:45]
Internet Crime Sprees Getting More Costly
News Businesses using the Internet are losing more to online vandals and cybercriminals even though they're using more security technology, concluded a survey released Monday. Though attacks by online vandals didn't account for major dollar losses, the...
[March 13, 2001, 9:09]
Security Sites Hit By Graffiti Gang
News In what appears to be a response to the geek-chic equivalent of a dare, a notorious group of online vandals has begun defacing security company Web sites. In addition, the group of vandals is not doing anything new, Maiffret said.
[June 14, 2001, 9:01]
USA Today Investigating Hack Attack
News Newspaper USA Today said on Friday that one or more online vandals had posted a fake front page and six phoney news stories on its Web site. Network administrators have yet to determine how the vandals compromised the company's Web server on...
[July 15, 2002, 8:59]
Hackers Compete To Deface Web Sites
News A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the holiday weekend. The trend looked as if online vandals had taken the contest seriously, he said.
[July 3, 2003, 7:35]
Hacking-competition Site Downed During Contest
News Unknown attackers downed the largest recorder of Web site defacements on Sunday, the same day that vandals had been thought to be planning an online-graffiti contest. A Web site called the Defacers' Challenge urged online vandals to crack into as...
[July 7, 2003, 7:34]
Hackers Split Over Vigilante Strikes
News Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
Flaws Quickly Turn Into Attacks
News Online vandals are quickly exploiting flaws, leaving companies with little time to patch their computer systems, according to a report published on Wednesday by Symantec. The report also found that more-complex worms and viruses -- known in the...
[October 2, 2003, 12:25]
Researchers Shed Light On DoS Attacks
News Online vandals intent on lashing out at companies and rivals stage denial-of-service attacks more than 4,000 times every week, researchers from the University of California at San Diego said Tuesday. In early May, vandals used just such an attack...
[May 23, 2001, 9:02]
Web At Risk From New MS Flaw
News Microsoft said Monday that a "serious vulnerability" in its flagship Web server software used by computers running more than 6 million sites could allow hackers and online vandals to take control of the computers.
[June 19, 2001, 8:30]
Microsoft Races To Fix Security Hole
News Microsoft has announced a serious security hole in its flagship Web server software, and on Tuesday was racing to convince system administrators to patch their Web servers before online vandals compromise their systems.
[May 2, 2001, 8:32]
Hacker Trackers Throw In The Towel
News On Monday, the nonprofit security site announced its decision to stop tracking the defacement of Web pages by online vandals because the volunteer staff can no longer keep up with the volume of defacements.
[May 22, 2001, 10:12]
US Army Attacked Via New Windows Flaw
News Because the vulnerability is being actively exploited by Internet vandals, Microsoft advised customers to apply a patch or use a workaround to defend against the attack as soon as possible. When online vandals have access to a "zero day...
[March 18, 2003, 7:43]
Microsoft Wants Internet Safe For .Net
News Like the poor security that originally surrounded tone dialing and let hackers misuse the phone network, poor security on the Internet today allows online vandals, hackers and others free reign, Mundie said.
[November 8, 2001, 10:26]
