"last night, I stayed up until 6 o'clock figuring out how to do this,"
says Riley "Caezar" Eller, a slender and bookish 27-year-old.
Scribbling furiously on a dry-erase board covered with boxy diagrams
representing a pair of networked computers, Eller maps out a novel
cyberattack-a method of disabling a supposedly impregnable system
This is an interview done by our partners SNP with WoH.
Well in this interview you get an insight
on many things to come. They discuss the
future hacking programs and much more all
the way to the social life of WoH members. Check it out... a fairly interesting read.
The computer-security world is divided when it comes to who
belongs in the profession and who doesn't.
Should security companies hire hackers? Or are they better
off steering clear of the computer underground? We put the
question to a pair of veteran security consultants.
By: Brendan I. Koerner
Title: showdown at hacker gulch
When someone cracked Slip.net's computer system, altered customer accounts and deleted important databases, the Internet service provider didn't need to look far to find the attacker.
It wasn't a criminal outfit seeking credit card numbers, and it wasn't a scrawny whiz kid hacking away for a challenge in his dark bedroom.
Steve Gibson (of GRC.COM fame) has written a great article that chronicles his
site getting DDoS'd and what he did to prevent it. He goes into great detail about
everything he did, and the outcome of all the events. Anyone even remotely
interested in Internet security and privacy should take a gander at this remarkable
piece of work.
In a retroflective article, the SANS Top 10 critical vulnerabilities for the year
2000 was republished. Although it does not reflect the most current vulnerabilities
or exploits, it does serve to let you see where everyone was as of January 2001
when this listing was last updated. And here on SNPortal we have brought the list
back for your look on what the hot issues were just five months ago...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dave Dittrich
is not happy: A software pirate
has hacked into computers at
the University of Washington
and installed a file-sharing
program on one machine. It
means one-stop shopping for
stolen - and now free -
software, and plenty of
headaches for Dittrich, the
Instant messaging may be a handy and quick communications tool, but experts on
the technology warn that it's also a security risk--vulnerable to eavesdropping and even physical
tracking.
By Tom Spring
PC World, 05/25/01
Instant messaging may be a handy and quick communications tool, but experts on the technology warn that it's also a security risk--vulnerable to eavesdropping and even physical tracking.
Lynn Haber, writing for Network
World discusses new security
techniques including honeypots,
decoys, air gaps, exit controls,
self-healing tools and
denial-of-service defenses
Katherine Karastamatis of
Redwood City had no idea how the
charges had been billed to her
credit card. "I didn't know who
had gotten my credit card number
or how," she said. "This person
(using the card) had my home
phone number, my home address,
which I never give to anybody. .
. . I thought somebody had
