Security News

Indo-Singapore IT Task Force Discusses Security
2000-11-03 08:40

http://asia.internet.com/2000/11/1101-india.html By Uday Lal Pai India Correspondent, asia.internet.com [November 1, 2000--MUMBAI] The Indo-Singapore task force on IT, communication and systems...

Website hacked after nine million attempts
2000-11-02 07:18

[Young Mr. Vranesevich must be taking correspondence courses from the same school that churns out Microsoft spokespeople, Since it was a little more two days over the thirty minutes that...

CALL for Papers: The Millennium Mac-Crypto Conference (fwd)
2000-11-01 21:22

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:53:31 -0800 From: Vinnie Moscaritolo To: mac-crypto () vmeng com Subject: CALL for Papers: The Millennium Mac-Crypto Conference...

Real security risks come from within, researcher says
2000-10-29 02:10

http://www.telekomnet.com/news/10-27-00_securityrisks_fromwithin.asp Oct. 27, 2000 Forrester Research security analyst Frank Prince thinks companies will waste billions of dollars on misdirected...

MindSpring site exposes password files
2000-10-24 02:59

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO52714,00.html By ANN HARRISON October 23, 2000 An unpatched, buggy version of open-source e-commerce software, combined with a misconfigured...

Uncovering the Dark Side of the world wide web
2000-10-23 03:34

http://cryptome.org/dark-spy.htm Financial Times, October 20, 2000 By Marcus Gibson In an achievement that is almost the equivalent of the Human Genome project for the internet, a new Scottish...

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...

FC: Civil lib groups oppose CoE treaty,              OECD "cybercrime" forum
2000-10-19 09:09

Forwarded By: Anonymous ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Declan McCullagh X-Sender: declan () mail well com To: politech () politechbot com Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:00:21 -0400...

Meet the 'Hactivist'
2000-10-18 19:09

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO52405,00.html By: Deborah Radcliff October 16, 2000 Yetzer-Ra, a 6-foot-3-inch, 300-pound giant of a man, paces between his "subjects" in the...

FIPR slams UK web banks over security
2000-10-12 13:45

http://www.uk.internet.com/Article/100648 James Middleton Oct. 11th 2000 The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) today launched a bitter attack on the UK's internet banks. The think...