Australian Federal Police have arrested a 17-year-old youth for allegedly hacking into a "prominent" Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Appearing before the court for the first time, a teenager accused of launching an Internet attack argued he had been framed.
In an attempt to find order in chaos, network defenders across the globe took on the Honeynet Project's Reverse Challenge - to analyse and decipher binary code captured in the wild -- and an Australian programmer is reaping the rewards of sweet success.
The UK teenager accused of launching a denial of service attack on a US port was cleared by Southwark Crown Court today.
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 "jailbreak" Web site created earlier this week is already attracting hordes of iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to free their devices from the digital shackles attached by Jobs and co.
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Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
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?
How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.
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The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.
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