News (93)

  • Shades of Grey - hacking on the edge of the law

    Why is it that "Gray hat" hackers, neither corporate pros nor havoc wreakers, are increasingly falling on the wrong side of the law?

  • Herbless the hacker goes legitimate

    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.

  • Unpopular music site takes beating from hackers

    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.

  • Maligned security industry gathers

    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 with a Vista twist

    Black Hat is not just about breaking and entering this year as Windows Vista and IE7 come under the spotlight.

Features and Case Studies (33)

  • Black Hat/ White Hat: RFP's security basics

    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.

  • Turning script kiddies into real programmers

    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.

  • Hackers: Under the hood

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

  • Stay ahead of hackers with the Nessus scanner

    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.

  • Framed for child porn - by a PC virus

    Of all the sinister things that internet viruses do, this might be the worst: they can make people an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

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