The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department's IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections.
An intruder has compromised a WordPress server and added a remote control tool to downloadable versions of the widely used blogging software.
Internet security experts are gathering at a secretive conference later this week to strategise in their fight against cybercriminals.
Some copies of a popular mail-server program are implanted with a back door that could allow access to Internet attackers, security experts have warned.
Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday.
Verification gadgets range from tokens to mobile-phone-based systems, but cost keeps them from catching on.
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The hair stands up on the back of your neck, and you feel the first bead of sweat roll down the side of your face: You've been hacked. But what do you do first?
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.
Catching malicious hackers isn't impossible. With the right tools, you can gather important information to help stop hack attacks. How can you use common UNIX tools to hunt down network attackers?
Everybody's going wireless—even those intruders who are after your precious data. Here's how to stop them.
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Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
Scott Charney's carreer has taken him from prosecutor in Bronx County to vice chairman of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Now he's literally looking for trouble as Microsoft's chief security strategist.
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