A hacker attack on the Yahoo news Web site has raised questions about online security, and highlighted the dangers of leaving content open to manipulation.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been called in by the Attorney-General's Department to investigate the hack of the Classification Board's website.
An unknown party has hacked into the Twitter accounts of high-profile users of the micro-blogging and social networking service such as US President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News anchor Bill O'Riley.
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.
Internet Security Systems (ISS) are today claiming the compromise of one of their servers by malicious hackers over the weekend was set-up by the company as a part of a research project.
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?
The times are ripe for the big fish to swallow the little fish and IT is no exception. In the past week Oracle and Fujitsu have purchased Sun and Supply Chain Consultants respectively -- in this episode of Patch Monday we delve into the details.
It's not very often that a company gets hacked and then agrees to talk about the incident, so when the finance director of a Sydney-based firm asked if I would be interested in writing a story about a security breach that cost him AU$9,000, I grabbed the opportunity.
An Apple iBook owner suspected his cat had hacked into his password-protected notebook. It turned out he was right -- his cat, which liked sleeping on his keyboard, managed to automatically bypass the computer's security.
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".
Firewalls have come a long way since we last looked at them in 2005, and have now become full-blown Unified Threat Management devices. We take a look at the top players.
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.
IT observer Jon Oltsik says corporate network defenses protect against the wrong enemy. Additional reading: Microsoft's bounty hunter
With its attack tool update, The Metasploit Project may be aiding online vandals more than helping network administrators identify weak points, security experts say. Additional reading: Patch management: All talk, no action?
A report released Monday by VeriSign, the company that maintains the Internet's .com and .net domain registry, indicates that attempted site hacks, online fraud and identity theft are growing rapidly, as e-commerce proliferates.
Microsoft has "I'm a PC" ads, Apple has "I'm a Mac", it's only fair that Linux has "I'm a Linux" too. Also on Club Builder this week, we look at the week of hacking and offer you the chance to win big in our competition.
Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.
You may be enjoying the convenience of a newly installed wireless solution, but how many strangers are doing the same with your network?
Tracking down wireless hackers is getting easier, but there are still bugs to work out.
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.
The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.
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