'Dark Spyrit' has posted a program designed to exploit a security hole revealed days ago by Microsoft. It gives almost anyone the ability to completely control a Windows 2000 server.
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.
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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.
Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has warned of the dangers of flaws in Bluetooth protocols, claiming these vulnerabilities are unrecognised.
Bodacion Technologies claims that the HYDRA server is completely secure against hacker intrusions, viruses, and other attacks. It even offered cash to hackers to try to crack it. Here's a look at product features.
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.
Microsoft's policy of relying on software patches to fix major security flaws has been questioned after a series of internal e-mails revealed that the software giant's own network wasn't immune from a worm that struck the Internet last weekend.
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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