A well-known Web site that tracks defacements on other sites by hackers such as PoizonB0x was itself defaced yesterday by a hacker going under the name of ThePike.
Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message.
The so-called "Howard hacker", who has apparently been reported to the Australian Federal Police, told ZDNet Australia that he is innocent of defacing the Liberal Web site.
A group of hackers has defaced dozens of Web sites in the past two weeks and published sensitive data culled from the sites in what it says is an effort to increase awareness of online security risks.
The Alldas.de Web site, which archives copies of Web pages that have been digitally defaced by online hoodlums, has announced that the founder of the site would be retiring and the site moving to a new domain.
The corporate Web site is gone and a hacker has made off with the database. The company's reputation is at stake. What crisis management tactics should be employed?
IT decision makers need to understand the differences between intrusion detection and prevention so that they can determine which type of product will provide the best safeguards for their systems.
Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?
One of the world's largest IT security companies, Internet Security Systems, has been left with egg on its face after one of its servers was defaced by intruders.
Everyone's heard the stories about the user who keeps their network password on a post-it note stuck to their monitor. But how do you educate users about the risks in lax security?
This week I'd like to call your attention to a report that provides an insider's view of what happens when teenage hackers use hundreds of open-port PCs like yours and mine to shut down Web sites in what is commonly known as a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).
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