The RIAA wont be too happy when they see that news websites are starting to mirror Princeton
University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten's SDMI crack research online. I am sure
we will see other mirrors but I believe The Register is the first to do so here.
Earlier this month when a Michigan computer hacker accessed information about customers' phone bills from Ameritech's Web site, he publicized the security breach and was sued by the SBC Communications Inc. unit. A federal judge then issued a temporary injunction, effectively shutting down the site.
Height: unknown. Weight: unknown. M.O.: has ability to move invisibly over great distances, speak multiple languages and destroy the civilized world as we know it.
Vasyl Kondrashov matches the FBI's definition of the 21st century's Public Enemy No. 1 -- except for one thing. This 28-year-old who feeds his wife and toddler by teaching people how to break into other people's computers doesn't think what he does for a living is a crime.
A new exploit for creating a "middle-man" connection between a client and a server,
via SMB. The exploit was found by Cult of the Dead Cow (aka L0pht (which were 'acquired' by @stake Laboratories who are the same guys that run HNN now)). Eitherways, check out SecurityFocus for the full story...
A live hacking competition that begins tomorrow in London is intended to publicise the UK's lackadaisical attitude towards security.
Computer hackers from around the world are being invited to break into a locked-down Web server for £35,000, in a competition launched for to publicise Britain's largest security
conference, Infosec.
A teenage hacker arrested during an FBI investigation into an alleged $3m internet fraud
is due to be sentenced on Friday.
Last month Raphael Gray, 19, from west Wales, admitted gaining unlawful access to company websites and to dishonestly obtaining services from the internet.
Using a computer which he bought from Dixons, Gray hacked into the customer records
of corporate sites to prove they were insecure.
Hollywood will get a rude awakening later today when three mainstream celebrities find out that their official websites have been defaced by digital graffiti artists the Prime Suspectz.
The three sites in question - jenniferaniston.com, melgibson.com and denzelwashington.com - were defaced overnight, with their usual glossy, star-spangled pages replaced by a Prime Suspectz logo featuring the Brazilian flag.
The hacks may prove just as embarrassing for Celebsites.com, which hosts the official homepages of the three celebrities as well as those of many more.
After pleading guilty to federal charges in November for hacking into NASA computers, Jason Allen Diekman of Mission Viejo, Calif., was arrested a second time this morning on federal wire charges.
Diekman was taken into custody at his home by special agents representing the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance on wire fraud charges this afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles.
Forget the popular myth of the teen hacker. An older, more sophisticated hacker is out there, spreading malicious code disguised as files and standard Internet apps into corporate networks. It's this fear of the unknown that's starting to scare some IT managers into adding behavior-blocking, or "sandboxing," technology, as a last line of defense at the desktop. Behavior blocking prevents malicious code from doing something it's not authorized to do. If a downloaded executable program tries to erase the PC's hard drive or copy its address book, for instance, the software stops it cold.
One of the U.S. government's front-line defenses against cyber-sabotage will begin selling its early warnings about the latest Internet threats, something it used to share only with federal agencies.
The shift comes as the taxpayer-funded CERT Coordination Center, formerly known as the
Computer Emergency Response Team, joins a prominent electronics trade association to form a
new "Internet Security Alliance."
