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The amount of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one company set up an anonymous 'dummy test' server--and found it was maliciously attacked 467 times within 24 hours of being installed.
There are signs that hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the Internet on Tuesday, but no damage seems to have been done, experts said.
Windows core technology guru Rob Short explains how hackers were involved in Windows Server 2003 development, and why not all NT4 applications will run on it.
The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in.
Eleven people have been charged with hacking major US retailers, including TJX, and compromising the credit- and debit-card details of over 40 million people.
The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported.
The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend.
An anonymous hacker has posted six million details of Chilean residents online in a bid to highlight data-protection problems in the country.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has confirmed it will not be pursuing the so-called "Howard hacker" -- but it has been helping the political parties better secure their Web sites.
A consultant from McAfee Foundstone has shown how to map the internal network on a public kiosk running Citrix XenApp.
Governments have had to target themselves with phishing attacks in order to highlight weak points in their security and protect national secrets from espionage, according to a report published this week by Sans.
An intruder has compromised a WordPress server and added a remote control tool to downloadable versions of the widely used blogging software.
Security specialist Symantec has warned businesses over an increasing trend for criminals to use "parasitic storage" on networks of compromised systems
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