The British Parliament was "attacked" late last year by hackers who tried to exploit a recent serious Microsoft Windows flaw, security experts confirmed on Friday.
Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has warned of the dangers of flaws in Bluetooth protocols, claiming these vulnerabilities are unrecognised.
A teenager accused of launching an attack on one of the US's biggest ports has claimed flaws in Windows allowed the real attacker to frame him.
Gary McKinnon, the UK citizen accused of hacking into computer systems run by NASA and the US military, will not be extradited across the Atlantic to face trial unless the US can guarantee he won't be treated as a terrorist.
The amount of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one company set up an anonymous 'dummy test' server--and found it was maliciously attacked 467 times within 24 hours of being installed.
The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?
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The amount of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one company set up an anonymous 'dummy test' server--and found it was maliciously attacked 467 times within 24 hours of being installed.
Hackers are increasingly targeting Web servers based on the Linux operating system, while the number of successful attacks on Windows systems decreases, according to a new report from a systems integrator.
Microsoft has released an update for Windows NT that fixes the critical vulnerability that allowed an intruder to sneak onto a military server running Windows 2000.
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Symantec is warning Internet users of a Trojan horse that removes spyware but alters the security settings in computers.
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Less than two months after launching its Windows Server 2003 operating system, Microsoft has released a security patch to fix a vulnerability that could let malicious sites run damaging code on the server.
Outlook has been copping some heat lately, largely for attracting virus writers, while Thunderbird has been getting all of the good press. We examine the two products, and other e-mail clients available today, so you can see if replacing Outlook really is an option.
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