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  • Hackers strike at Islamic Web sites

    Hackers have begun attacking Web sites connected to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and to other Islamic nations including Iran, prompting the FBI to issue warnings to system administrators everywhere to tighten up their security.

  • Hack 2002: recognising the risks

    With over a trillion dollars in transactions passing over the Internet, the Hack 2002 Conference currently being held in Sydney attempts to expose some of the systemic flaws which lead to security breaches.

  • Hackers divided over response to terrorism

    Groups of online vandals and hackers are split over how to respond to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, with some Internet vigilantes calling for an assault on perceived terrorist sites and others pleading for calm.

  • Net attack damage report

    A denial-of-service attack on the Net's root servers fizzles out. A look at what happened, what didn't and why.

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  • Hack 2002: recognising the risks

    With over a trillion dollars in transactions passing over the Internet, the Hack 2002 Conference currently being held in Sydney attempts to expose some of the systemic flaws which lead to security breaches.

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