Security News

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...

New Mexico teen charged in NASA computer attack
2001-07-02 05:52

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/35745p-582339c.html ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (July 1, 2001 1:02 a.m. EDT) - Federal authorities have accused an Albuquerque teenager of hacking into a NASA...

CIA can't foresee computer attacks, official says
2001-06-22 01:12

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/30632p-523453c.html By D. IAN HOPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (June 21, 2001 2:54 p.m. EDT) - The CIA is unable to predict attacks on U.S. computer...

Investigators seek clues to White House Web site attack
2001-05-08 02:58

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO60283,00.html By RICK PERERA IDG NEWS SERVICE May 07, 2001 White House officials are still unsure who is responsible for a denial-of-service...

Advance notice of Web site warning may have helped block              attacks
2001-03-12 06:33

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO58475,00.html By DAN VERTON March 09, 2001 Early warnings issued by the FBI to four vertical-industry groups about the continuing threat of...

Hackers say attack was easy
2001-02-12 06:37

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/0,1643,500308974-500496290-503480397-0,00.html By JONATHAN FOWLER Associated Press GENEVA (February 11, 2001 7:03 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) -...

AIM Flaw Could Open Users' Computers to Attack
2000-12-14 04:24

http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_534531,00.html By Thor Olavsrud December 13, 2000 In the trenches of the instant messaging (IM) wars, America Online Inc. has so far argued...

Security experts: Denial-of-service attacks still a big              threat
2000-10-20 23:21

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO52633,00.html By PATRICK THIBODEAU October 20, 2000 BALTIMORE -- The types of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that...