Security News > 2002 > March

Rampant attacks on home PCs
2002-03-29 08:55

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2002/3/27/technology/27hac&sec=technology By M. MADHAVAN Wednesday, March 27, 2002 PETALING JAYA: Users who have installed host-based firewall...

Critical Eye - Don't Confuse Fans With Pirates
2002-03-28 07:21

http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?columnist=ebert&date=020401&page=01 April 2002 By Roger Ebert This year, Universal's music division plans to use a new copy-protection scheme that excludes...

Social Engineering Attacks via IRC and Instant Messaging
2002-03-20 09:15

Forwarded from: Justin Lundy http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2002-03.html The CERT/CC has received reports of social engineering attacks on users of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Instant...

Hacker exposes financial information at Georgia Tech
2002-03-19 07:36

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO69213,00.html By BRIAN SULLIVAN March 18, 2002 State and federal authorities are investigating a hack into a computer server at the...

The secret life of hackers
2002-03-18 08:17

http://it.mycareer.com.au/news/2002/03/19/FFXL5GK5XYC.html Tuesday 19 March, 2002 By Suelette Dreyfus Were you to work in a certain Federal Government agency, every morning you walked through the...

UK study: Passwords often easy to crack
2002-03-14 07:41

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/03/13/dangerous.passwords/index.html

Application service providers urged to ensure security
2002-03-11 08:58

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/295276p-2601701c.html Agence France-Presse SINGAPORE (March 10, 2002 10:38 a.m. EST) - About a quarter of online application service providers lack...

Couple of quickies...
2002-03-06 08:31

Just a little heads up, I should be wandering the conference halls & exibits of COMDEX Chicago on Wednesday, spending most of my time at the International Security & Biometrics Summit. I'm...

Digital Destruction Was Worst Imaginable
2002-03-05 08:21

Forwarded from: William Knowles http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-91_STO68762,00.html By DAN VERTON March 04, 2002 Washington - For several tense hours on Sept. 11, the...

New University of Illinois Center Focuses on Information Security
2002-03-04 09:50

Forwarded from: William Knowles http://www.i-street.com/newsarchive/yr2002/mn02/27is.asp February 27, 2002 10:00 By Jeff Meredith CHICAGO - Information security has gained a newfound urgency the...