Security News

Spy case demos insider threat
2001-02-28 08:36

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88_STO58062,00.html By DAN VERTON February 26, 2001 The career FBI agent charged with spying last week had significant IT experience and...

Companies move to combine physical, IT security efforts
2001-02-28 03:22

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88_STO58119,00.html By DEBORAH RADCLIFFE February 27, 2001 WASHINGTON -- Late last year, Howard Schmidt, Microsoft Corp.'s director of...

mass-marketing a cracking tool
2001-02-27 19:19

Would you believe that someone is marketing a Windows computer cracking tool as a Napster alternative? ["ShareSniffer Inc.'s newly-launched software, also called ShareSniffer, allows people to...

'I Hired a Hacker': A Security Manager's Confession
2001-02-27 00:20

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO58018,00.html [I have to wonder what kind of message this sends, Hack a network, Get a job, Lately this trend is becoming the norm over the...

Wheee! A fairly slow news day...
2001-02-26 08:33

Yup, A fairly slow news day, Take it as a blessing in disguise, or the quiet before the storm. Checking the logs to c4i.org I found an interesting site linking to the main page worth recommending...

Man pleads `self defense' after hacking
2001-02-23 04:48

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2001/02/21/story/0000074560 Wednesday, February 21st, 2001 By Jou Ying-cheng STAFF REPORTER The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) yesterday referred to...

FBI spy case highlights insider threat to corporate data
2001-02-22 09:04

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-88_STO57889,00.html By DAN VERTON February 21, 2001 A career FBI agent with significant experience and access to FBI IT systems was...

Earthlink cracked!
2001-02-19 08:06

http://www.cotse.com/2152001.html Earthlink is currently battling a recent compromise of their internal network. Many of their internal Unix boxes have been cracked and have had a backdoor...

NSA warns it can't keep up with rapid changes in IT
2001-02-19 05:52

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO57808,00.html By DAN VERTON February 16, 2001 The National Security Agency, the signals intelligence arm of the Pentagon, is losing the race...

Small Start-Up Helps the CIA To Mask Its Moves on the Web
2001-02-13 07:23

http://cryptome.org/cia-safeboy.htm By NEIL KING JR. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL February 12, 2001 How's this for a curious pairing? Stephen Hsu and his partners at SafeWeb Inc....