News (8)

  • Australian Universities under fire from hack attacks

    Australian Universities are coming under heavy fire from the hacking community, with a serious breach overseas last weekend providing a timely reminder of the consequences of a successful attack.

  • MySQL open to attack

    Several vulnerabilities have been found in the MySQL database system, a light database package commonly used in Linux environments.

  • Real Player vulnerable to hacking

    Three serious security vulnerabilities have been found in Real Player, the popular multimedia software.

  • New BIND flaw poses hacking threat

    Yet another vulnerability has been found in BIND, the domain name server (DNS) software distributed by ISC, according to an advisory released by a Brazilian research organization, CAIS.

  • Alcatel security slip-up threatens customers

    The US based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has released an advisory strongly urging Alcatel customers using certain types of switches to upgrade the software running them, after a massive security slip-up was discovered.

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Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Security firm: IE patch does not work

    A fix for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser simply doesn't fix the vulnerability it addresses, according to security experts.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

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