Why is it that "Gray hat" hackers, neither corporate pros nor havoc wreakers, are increasingly falling on the wrong side of the law?
A UK hacker who made a name for himself cracking commercial Web servers and posting political messages on corporate sites, says that he/she is now keen to move into legitimate security work.
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.
Security experts and hackers are congregating in Las Vegas this week, as a continual stream of alerts creates scepticism over the industry's effectiveness.
Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering this year as Windows Vista and IE7 come under the spotlight.
The White Hat Hacker, known only as Rain Forest Puppy, explains a litany of security holes in operating systems and applications from Sendmail to Solaris, and tells you what to do to avoid them.
How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.
Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.
If you want to level the playing field with hackers, you need to be able to look at your network's vulnerabilities in the same way they do.
Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.
Security for wireless could end up more of a mess than security on our PCs, unless we act soon.
Microsoft Exchange might be the most popular mail server but is it the best? We test the alternatives.
Everybody's going wireless"even those intruders who are after your precious data. Here's how to stop them.
Want to put a VPN or firewall on your network card? A new class of product handles all the processing, keeping your server free to do the hard work.
Microsoft's Windows XP has received a fair amount of hype in the lead up to its release-Matt Lake and Josh Mehlman assess its usefulness for businesses.
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