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.
With its attack tool update, The Metasploit Project may be aiding online vandals more than helping network administrators identify weak points, security experts say. Additional reading: Patch management: All talk, no action?
Many network administrators new to Linux find it hard to transition from a point-and-click security configuration interface to one based on editing complicated and hard-to-locate text files. Here are seven easy things administrators can and should do to make their Linux server more secure and significantly reduce the risk they face.
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Internet Explorer is broken, and the bad guys know it. As you type, criminal hackers could be recording your bank login and password information. Robert offers some tips for staying safe online.
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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