Security News

Virus attack reveals flaw in network security strategies
2003-01-27 11:03

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/736677p-5363306c.html By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (January 26, 2003 4:20 p.m. EST) - The latest virus-like attack on the Internet...

Could Attack on DALnet Spell End for IRC?
2003-01-25 11:08

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/10792_1573551 By Thor Olavsrud January 24, 2003 For at least a month, distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks have been crippling DALnet,...

Experts make changes to defend against Internet attacks
2002-11-07 10:51

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/609017p-4702120c.html By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (November 6, 2002 4:39 p.m. EST) - Experts have made an important change to the 13...

Attack on Feds: It Came From Within
2002-09-27 07:19

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,74385,00.html By VINCE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2002 My security team was recently asked to help reduce costs by consolidating...

Re: Israel under hack attack
2002-04-18 07:19

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Denial-of-Service Attacks Still a Threat
2002-04-10 08:45

Forwarded from: bob http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/0,1212,NAV47_STO69924-,00.html By Jaikumar Vijayan Computer World Apr. 08, 2002 Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks...

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...

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...

Trends in Denial of Service Attack Technology
2001-10-24 07:13

http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/DoS_trends.pdf This paper (pdf) highlights recent trends in DoS attack technology based on intruder activity and attack tools reported to and analyzed by the...

Hack attack targets Verizon, AT&T wireless users
2001-07-31 07:31

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO62673,00.html.html By ASHLEE VANCE IDG NEWS SERVICE July 30, 2001 Verizon Wireless Inc. and AT&T Wireless have started investigating a...