Most computer hackers are just bored kids with too much time on their hands, according to one industry expert who likens them to street vandals, and only ten percent of hackers really know what they're doing.
NSW Police are seeking assistance from members of the public after the severing of Telstra telecommunications cables in Blacktown last week, which left 10,000 homes and businesses in Western Sydney without communications for two days.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
In a series of incidents, which began when a window was broken late on Saturday night, Philips’ offices in North Ryde were broken into once over the weekend and again on Monday night, sources have told ZDNet Australia.
The Alldas.de Web site, which archives copies of Web pages that have been digitally defaced by online hoodlums, has announced that the founder of the site would be retiring and the site moving to a new domain.
I was interested to read that Telstra had the good sense to finally hand over its network designs to the Federal government last week.
A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.
Computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn old lessons.
Second Life, with an alleged population of 7.979 million, is changing the way businesses think about what their customers want, and whether "virtual" is a viable way to give it to them.
Hackers are increasingly focusing on Apple's Mac OS X, and the number of newly discovered vulnerabilities has surged. Such a switch could mean big implications for Apple's user base, which has traditionally not had to concern itself too much over security.
A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer.
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Payphone manufacturer and operator TriTel today unveiled a new payphone that offers Internet access, e-mail, Web browsing and SMS messaging.
Microsoft released its first monthly security update on Wednesday, following a new schedule that attempts to ease the load on overburdened system administrators.
Conceding that its strategy of patching Windows holes as they emerge has not worked, Microsoft plans next week to outline a new security effort focused on what the company calls "securing the perimeter," a company executive said.
A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard drive.
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