A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.
A self proclaimed "security conference for the Australian hacker community by the Australian hacker community" will take place in April, with attendees descending on the event from all over the country.
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The organisers of the Ruxcon security conference, which drew over 300 attendees from all over Australia to the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) campus in May, will run a second conference in 2004, an organiser has told ZDNet Australia.
Two students are blocked by a US federal court from presenting information at a security and hackers' conference on how to break into and modify a university system.
Back in mid-February of this year, I almost attended a conference held in Sydney by technology vendor CA.
Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Enterprise technology development and improvement rarely takes place as quickly as most IT managers would like, but blaming that lack of speed on the inherent complexity of the problems involved can sometimes be a lazy knee-jerk reaction.
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The typical image of a hacker is a kid hunched over his keyboard in the wee hours of the night staring at commands on his computer screen that unlock the secrets of the national government. But the woman sitting next to you at Starbucks fiddling with her digital camera could be just as dangerous.
Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
Australian Federal Police agent, Nigel Phair, said most Australian organisations sweep security breaches under the carpet to avoid public scrutiny in the courts.
A "honeypot" trap consisting of a Wi-Fi-equipped laptop is the latest weapon against drive-by hackers.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
During the next few years, heightened security will change the Internet, and the office network on which many of you work. In fact, you'll probably see changes first at the office as companies try to "harden" their information assets against a wide variety of threats.
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