The FBI warned US Web sites and Internet service providers to be on guard for possible denial-of-service attacks this week, but any damage has appeared to be minimal.
Police are holding the IT security linchpin responsible for propping up an online business that specialises in networking paedophiles and trading images of children being sexually abused.
Governments from all around the globe are engaged in a virtual war where the weapons are hackers and trojans and the prizes for winning a battle include corporate secrets and disruption of the enemies IT infrastructure.
Two Russians were indicted on computer-crime charges stemming from a rash of intrusions into the networks of banks, Internet service providers and other companies.
A coalition of corporations, universities and federal law enforcement agencies on Wednesday in the US opened the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection, whose mission is to research identity theft problems and solutions.
In cooperation with the FBI, SANS has released its annual update to the most exploited Internet security vulnerabilities. We look at the top 10 Linux/Unix vulnerabilities.
To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker." We talk to him about software security, the evolution of hacking and social engineering, and law enforcement's action against hacking.
Stolen Cisco code revealed recently has sent shivers down some administrators' spines but how widely it has been exploited remains to be seen. Additional reading: IT disasters -- preventative measures
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?
Hackers are increasingly targeting Web servers based on the Linux operating system, while the number of successful attacks on Windows systems decreases, according to a new report from a systems integrator.
SECURING THE WEB: Making the Internet a better (and safer) place to live means mapping many of the institutions of the real world--defense, taxation, government, law enforcement--over to cyberspace. Here are some of the things that must to happen to bring the Internet into line.
For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?
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