Experts last week showed how to put together a wireless hacking kit for less than £1,200.
Speaking at NetEvents, Jan Guldentops, director of Better Access Labs, demonstrated how a hacker could create the kit using "any old laptop, an antenna, GPS, power unit and software. And the entire thing fits in a briefcase."
Guldentops said the advent of a wireless standard meant it was easy for external hackers to access the wireless Lan.
Source: The Register
Novell users are finally able to find out why they needed to apply a patch to fix a GroupWise security problem deemed so serious the firm decided to keep it secret.
Source: IDG
"To secure the national information infrastructure against future terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush's cyberspace security advisor told an IT gathering Tuesday that the government will take steps toward greater information security, but the industry must do its part, too."
Took them long enough.
Source: News.com
A mass-mailing e-mail worm started to spread quickly Tuesday, prompting antivirus software makers to advise their customers to upgrade their virus definitions.
Dubbed Pentagone, Goner or Gone, the Visual Basic Script program spreads via e-mail and the messaging system ICQ. On infected computers, it stops most antivirus and security programs.
Source: The Register
BadTrans-B has eclipsed SirCam to become the most common email-borne virus on the Internet.
MessageLabs, a managed service provider which scans its users email for viruses, blocked 170,510 emails containing BadTrans-B, in the last four weeks.
Source: Computerworld
The number of required security patches and updates to security products during the past 12 months has so overwhelmed IT managers at most companies that the process now places network security at greater risk, a new study concludes.
Source: Wired
Code Red, despite or perhaps because it was the most-hyped worm of 2001, does not make an appearance in the "top 10 threat" lists recently compiled by two leading anti-viral protection vendors.
Source: Newsbytes
"A software glitch at the .info domain registry operated by Afilias briefly allowed scores of people to register Internet addresses that had fewer than the required three characters, the company confirmed today.
Source: Silicon.com
The FBI's controversial snooping virus Magic Lantern could ultimately be a threat to the organisation itself.
Magic Lantern hides a Trojan on a victim's hard drive that can snoop on users by recording their keyboard strokes. The software has already produced evidence that has been used to convict people.
