Security News

Hacker targets Globe website
2001-12-25 08:51

http://www.inq7.net/brk/2001/dec/24/brkinf_1-1.htm Posted: 7:20 PM (Manila Time) | December 24, 2001 By Joey G. Alarilla INQ7 ONE of the local hackers who claimed responsibility for defacing...

Re: Want better workplace security?
2001-12-24 08:17

Forwarded from: Robert G. Ferrell

RE: *MAJOR SECURITY BREACH AT CCBILL**
2001-12-24 08:16

Forwarded from: Jason Ware This is someone's eggdrop botnet, the first part of the dump is the user file. The -bfoN is the user flags set, and b means another bot. The port it listens to, 9872, is...

Microsoft: Secure out of the Box?
2001-12-20 06:42

http://www.theneteconomy.com/article/0,3658,s%253D908%2526a%253D20127,00.asp December 14, 2001 By: Paul Coe Clark III Howard Schmidt is chief security officer at Microsoft. He recently testified...

Certification What's hot, What's not
2001-12-20 06:32

Forwarded from: Richard Caasi http://crn.channelsupersearch.com/news/crn/30948.asp By John Roberts CRN Oct. 26, 2001 Six years ago when FishNet Security founder and CEO Gary Fish received his...

DIRT-Magic Lantern Firm Barred from Gov Work
2001-12-19 08:23

http://cryptome.org/dirty-lantern.htm [Anonymous also sent us a copy of this statement, and I would have been happy to have broken the story if it wasn't for another fine Micro$oft MTA making sure...

Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington
2001-12-19 08:12

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66708,00.html By DAN VERTON December 17, 2001 WASHINGTON -- The pending appointment by President Bush of Microsoft Corp.'s chief security...

Security hole leaves some Unix servers wide open
2001-12-17 07:27

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/194719p-1890210c.html By MATTHEW FORDAHL, Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. (December 14, 2001 6:34 p.m. EST) - A recently uncovered security hole could...

FBI streamlines operations
2001-12-12 05:54

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,,NAV47_STO66417,00.html By DAN VERTON December 10, 2001 The FBI is taking steps to eliminate duplication of effort in its cybercrime investigation...

Cyber terrorism is 'fantasy'//ERRI Reply
2001-12-03 07:48

Forwarded from: C. L. Staten Cc: junkmail () barnowl com Mr. Rosenberger: While I agree that sometimes computer journalists have overblown the threat of cyberterrorism, I must also offer a simple...