Having a forensic readiness plan is critical to a company's ability to prosecute a computer-based attacker, a detective of Victoria's computer crime squad has told the Hack 2003 conference in Melbourne.
The man who received only a suspended sentence after hacking into the Optus network and accessing the account details of more than 400,000 users has been convicted on appeal in a move welcomed by the law enforcement community.
The Web site of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one of the most unpopular lobby groups on the Internet, was defaced last week for the fifth time in a year.
A 17 year old Queensland youth was arrested last week on charges relating to a security breach at a "prominent" internet service provider (ISP). ZDNet Australia spoke to the director of the recently established Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), federal agent Alastair MacGibbon, about the arrest, and found out why letting the world know you've been hacked isn't the end of the world.
The organisers of the Ruxcon security conference, which drew over 300 attendees from all over Australia to the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) campus in May, will run a second conference in 2004, an organiser has told ZDNet Australia.
Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.
A potentially critical vulnerability has been found in Cisco Systems' Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows servers, which is used to control devices such as routers in large networks.
Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.
The director of Microsoft's product security, George Stathakopoulos, has told ZDNet Australia that the software giant has learned security lessons from the wider software community.
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United States-based security company @stake (atstake.com) has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.
A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.
Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of US$200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
A hacker group specializing in software for Microsoft's Xbox has announced the release of the first full version of Linux for the game console.
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