The software giant acknowledges that a hacker broke into its Windows beta testing network and had access to yet-unreleased software.
Ten hackers or hacking groups have tried in total more than 1,000 times this year to breach the network security of Australian-based organisations, according to research by networking vendor 3Com.
The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend.
An intruder has compromised a WordPress server and added a remote control tool to downloadable versions of the widely used blogging software.
A Mac OS X hacker challenge apparently got a systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison into trouble with university administrators.
The new and improved Mac hack competition, which was set up by an Apple systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin in response to a ZDNet Australia story shut down early because the university's CIO was concerned about "security and network access".
The CIO of a rather large Australian company recently told me that the firm was happy with its security set-up but then quickly made a U-turn. Would that statement, on record, effectively lay down a hacker challenge?
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
Businesses need to remain one step ahead of the hackers and virus writers by ensuring they know more about the holes in their networks than the cyber-criminals, according to one expert.
A new book postulates that it's human error--not hardware or software glitches--that leaves networks vulnerable to attack.
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Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.
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Tracking down wireless hackers is getting easier, but there are still bugs to work out.
Your data is important to you, but do you know if others are trying to get at it? ZDNet Australia investigates.
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