Security News

Web site links Navy war officers
2002-12-30 08:24

Forwarded from: William Knowles http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/690703p-5128778c.html By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (December 27, 2002 3:21 p.m. EST) - When Lt. Cmdr....

Recording industry Web site swamped after anti-pirating proposal
2002-07-31 07:07

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/483384p-3859845c.html NEW YORK (July 30, 2002 6:42 p.m. EDT) - In an apparently deliberate denial-of-service attack, an onslaught of traffic crippled the...

Lockstep repairs hacked Web sites with WebAgain
2002-02-20 08:17

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO68450,00.html By SAM COSTELLO IDG NEWS SERVICE February 19, 2002 Lockstep Systems Inc. Tuesday announced a new version of its WebAgain...

Airline Web sites seen as riddled with security holes
2002-02-06 08:38

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-68-84-91_STO67973,00.html By DAN VERTON February 04, 2002 Increasing concerns about the potential for hackers to manipulate critical back-end...

Web hackers hit US via Taiwan
2002-01-11 18:41

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/01/11/story/0000119478 Friday, January 11th, 2002 WORLDWIDE CRIME: A Pakistan-based group of hackers claims to have obtained top-secret data from Web sites in...

Re: 'Dark web space' hides net nasties
2001-11-16 08:53

Forwarded from: John Q. Public Kevin Poulsen's article fills in the vague blanks in Middleton's article at http://www.securityfocus.com/news/282 but I think what they are still lightly discussing...

DAVE WILSON: 'Hacktivists,' caught in web of hate, deface Afghan sites
2001-10-03 07:17

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/118547p-1278272c.html [Again its amateur hour on the Internet, the attempts by hackers in trying to take out banks, electric power and communications...

Mass web banking hack probed
2001-07-09 08:23

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/222 By Kevin Poulsen July 6, 2001 12:00 AM PT The FBI is investigating a June computer intrusion into a web banking company that may have compromised customer...

Hackers penetrate America Online's ICQ Web servers
2001-06-27 06:56

http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47-68-84-88_STO61694,00.html By JENNIFER DISABATINO June 26, 2001 Two servers for the instant messaging service ICQ were cracked yesterday, defacing...

[Satire] Survey: Majority of Web Users are FBI Agents Posing as Teenage Girls
2001-06-25 09:00

http://www.satirewire.com/news/0008/satire-fbiteens.shtml NEW YORK, N.Y. (SatireWire.com) The Internet reached a demographic milestone this week as a new study revealed that for the first time,...