A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
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?"
An online gaming company in China was ordered to return a player's virtual goods that had been hacked and stolen.
A British man is in court accused of a DNS attack that took down the systems of a major US port, but he claims he has been the victim of hackers.
An attack that disabled the servers of a major US port was the result of a spat over the suspect's Internet girlfriend, say prosecutors.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
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Spam drives users crazy, makes life difficult for mail administrators, and drives up costs. We evaluate five packages that aim to ease the burden on your mail servers.
While XP SP2 is a huge step forward for Microsoft, there are important caveats. For example, don't expect the new Windows Firewall to prevent keystroke-logging Trojans from stealing your credit card info.
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