The latest version of the popular CD recording software Easy CD Creator, version 5, is killing Windows 2000 machines stone dead so hold off until you have read all the guidance.
The developer of the software, Roxio, has put up a security notice on its site saying that a "small percentage" of people using the Windows 2000 OS have experienced some problems with its leading product.
What a busy week for cracking and hacking as thousands of Chinese crackers and
American crackers take aim at each other. The latest casualty is none other than
Whitehouse.gov. The site was hit with a large DoS(denial of service) attack and was
unaccessable for some time this morning. The attack matched an attack that hit the CIA
Federal agents filed a record 1,005 applications to perform electronic surveillance and covert physical burglaries in supposed terrorism and espionage investigations last year, all of which were granted, according to Justice Department figures made public Wednesday.
The German government is planning an early warning system to protect the country's Internet resources against potential international hacker attacks. The Interior Ministry wants to build a network of the Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) that already exist in various government and private organizations, ministry spokesman Dirk Inger said Wednesday.
German security experts have warned about the potential vulnerability of the country's
networks, especially after a recent series of hacker attacks accompanying increased political tension between China and the U.S.
A late-term change in the Clinton administration's approach to prosecuting cybercrime has made it much more difficult for NASA to track and prosecute hackers who attempt to penetrate
its computer networks, a NASA network-protection office official said Monday.
"NASA lost 90 percent of its ability to track and pursue [suspected computer] intruders because of changes in policy" by the Justice Department, said Stephen Nesbitt, director of
operations in the computer-crimes division of NASA's network and advanced technologies protection office.
The single biggest cause of network security breaches is not software bugs and unknown network vulnerabilities but user stupidity, according to a survey published by computer
consultancy firm @Stake.
The security research company, which is best known for uncovering bugs in operating systems and network software, says that, despite the ever risk of computer fraud, many corporate
computer users leave passwords on post-it notes, fail to change passwords from the default and incorrectly configure hardware.
Computer hackers in New Zealand found guilty of spreading viruses could face jail terms of
up to seven years, under new legislation being considered by the Law and Order Select
Committee.
Many countries are moving to avoid the embarrassment caused in the Philippines last year when authorities arrested the notorious Love Bug virus writer only to find no legislation under which to lay charges.
The National Police Agency's Cyber Terror Countermeasure Center, along with the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigation (OSI), said Thursday that they were questioning a 24-year-old airman first class of the USAF at Osan Air Base on charges of hacking into the Internet homepages of 113 Korean sites, including education institutes and venture companies.
A hacker announced that time's up for system administrators who haven't patched Windows 2000 Web servers vulnerable to a flaw revealed by Microsoft two days ago.
The hacker--using the handle "Dark Spyrit"--released a program Wednesday night designed to exploit the security hole and give anyone with limited technical knowledge the ability to completely control a Windows 2000 server running version 5 of Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) Web software.
This how to walks you through the process of building one of the most stable and secure firewalls available - a FreeBSD-STABLE firewall with IPFILTER. As a part of the installation process, all services will be disabled except OpenSSH, which will have its access controlled via TCP-Wrappers.
