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SCO Web Site Attacked Again
News Hackers defaced SCO Group's Web site on Monday, targeting the company's controversial claims to elements of the Linux operating system. Earlier this year, the company watched helplessly as a variant of the MyDoom computer virus crippled its site...
[November 29, 2004, 16:00]
Disgruntled Resident Attacked Over Web Site
News The creator of a particularly forthright Web site portraying Addiewell, Scotland, as "a hell hole" and "the worst town on earth" finally removed the site today after he received impassioned pleas from the distraught local council as well as an...
[September 21, 1999, 16:08]
Petrol Crisis: OPEC Web Site Defaced
News The cracker struck out late Tuesday, forcing OPEC to remove the site Wednesday morning. The cracker responsible for the attack -- Fluxnyne -- defaced the site in order to draw attention to the worsening situation.
[September 13, 2000, 9:01]
Celebrity Web Site Under Fire For Privacy Breaches
News Last year the company was attacked for releasing a comprehensive CD database containing names and addresses of people in the UK. Controversial UK Web site www.192.com stands accused of endangering top Premiership football players and their families...
[February 9, 2001, 14:39]
Hackers Launch Bofra Banner Ad Attacks
News Hackers have already attacked several European Web sites using the as yet un-patched IFRAME exploit, otherwise known as Bofra, in Internet Explorer 6.0. After receiving several reports of rogue banner ads infecting users, researchers at the SANS...
[November 22, 2004, 14:05]
Netsky Attacks: Four Sites Down, One To Go
News However, unlike Netsky, Blaster attacked the lesser-used Web address: "Blaster was stupid -- it attacked the Web site that most people would not use. It only attacked http://windowsupdate.com, not www.windowsupdate.com.
[April 8, 2004, 14:35]
'Code Red': So Long, For Now
News By the end of Thursday, any given numerical Internet address had been attacked on average more than 20 times, said Stuart Staniford, president of security consulting firm Silicon Defence, who did a statistical analysis of the worm's spread.
[July 23, 2001, 8:43]
FBI Leads Cyber-vandal Hunt
News Early Wednesday morning E*Trade and ZDNet were also attacked. And users have reported sporadic problems accessing America Online on Wednesday, but a spokeswoman said she did not believe AOL had been attacked.
[February 10, 2000, 8:57]
'Code Red' Worm Claims 12,000 Servers
News Maiffret said that while the addresses of the computers attacked by the worm seem to be random, because the worm uses the same starting point, or "seed", to generate the list, the "random" lists that any two worms generate are identical.
[July 19, 2001, 9:56]
Attacks Increase On Apache Servers
News ESecurityplanet.com has reported that the Apache software, which is used by about 60 percent of Web servers, is being actively attacked on the Internet. We need to be especially vigilant in updating systems such as Apache that make up a piece of...
[December 11, 2002, 10:59]
Domain Registry Site Struck By Hackers
News GNR representatives said the site, which administers registration of .name Web domains, was attacked sometime on Saturday afternoon and remained corrupted until the problem was fixed on Sunday morning.
[December 4, 2003, 7:35]
Web Criminals Hit Betfair With DDOS Attack
News UK Internet betting site Betfair said on Wednesday afternoon that it had been attacked by Web-based criminals. In an statement posted on its site, Betfair told its users that it been the victim of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.
[July 1, 2004, 11:10]
Crackers Question Moon Landings
News A Web site belonging to NASA -- the US space authority -- was attacked by computer crackers on Wednesday, who replaced the home page with the enigmatic question "Did man really walk on the moon? The Web site was powered by Microsoft's Web serving...
[March 7, 2001, 15:33]
Cheesed Off Cracker Strikes Again
News An individual claiming to be the malicious cracker who attacked UK government sites last month, has struck again. The cracker claimed to have exploited a weakness in the configuration of the SQL server powering the Legoland Web site.
[September 12, 2000, 12:52]
Cracker Vows To Continue Defacement Campaign
News He has also targeted a number of government Web sites to express disillusionment at government policy on smoking and curiously even attacked Legoland over the DeCSS DVD decoding legal conflict. In an email message to ZDNet UK Herbless said that...
[September 18, 2000, 13:05]
Web Vigilantes Launch Attacks
News Web sites with the following names are being attacked: Abbey Trust & Offshore Bank; First Global Trust; Allied Trust Bank UK; Crystal Bonds & Securities; Allied Trust Bank UK; KASH BANK CORPORATION; Liberty Stronghold Securities and Finance.
[February 10, 2005, 12:20]
Automated Phishing On The Rise, Experts Say
News We're still seeing a similar concentration on the banks being attacked. The group also found one Web site that functioned for 31 days, but it added that 6.4 days was the average time a site stayed active.
[November 23, 2004, 12:05]
Lycos Army Shoots Itself In Foot?
News Yesterday Lycos denied its servers had been attacked, which could suggest that both companies are correct. Lycos may accidentally have launched a denial-of-service attack against its own anti-spam campaign Web site, "Make Love Not Spam".
[December 2, 2004, 16:30]
Hackers Attack IT Conference
News Hackers infiltrated an IT exhibition last week and attacked delegates' computers with a new type of wireless attack. Security experts attending the Wireless LAN Event in London last Wedesday found that anonymous hackers in the crowd had created a...
[April 25, 2005, 13:10]
UK Cybercops Catch Suspected Russian Blackmailers
News Earlier this year one UK bookmaker, who wished to remain anonymous, said his firm had been attacked several times. The gangs would typically contact the online firms through a customer-service email address on the Web site with a demand for between...
[July 21, 2004, 14:55]
