News (6)

  • Hacker Mitnick's Internet homecoming

    Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went online Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade.

  • Guilty plea in Al-Jazeera site hack

    A central California man plead guilty Thursday to two charges stemming from an attack on the Web site of the Arab news service Al-Jazeera during the early days of the Iraq conflict.

  • Season over for 'phishing'?

    The latest innovation in identity fraud typically begins with an unexpected e-mail message from a financial institution proclaiming something like: "Your account information needs to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports."

  • FBI bust at hacker fest

    The FBI took a Russian encryption expert into custody at his Las Vegas hotel for publishing software that cracks a variety of methods used to secure e-books.

  • FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect

    Federal law enforcement officials confirmed that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this month.

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Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Hackers: Under the hood

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

  • Who are these virus writers?

    commentary Who takes the time and effort to pull off malicious stunts, like viruses, malware, worms, Trojans, or any other deliberately damaging actions? And why?

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