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It has emerged that Belgium is the latest country to feel the force of the Chinese cyber-super-power, with Belgian ministers claiming that state sponsored hackers have been targeting Federal Government computers. The Justice Minister in Belgium, Jo Vandeurzen, has claimed that the spate of hacking...
Read More | 7 Days Ago
IT Week reports that business is just too slow to respond to cyber-criminals, and as a result the hackers are simply worried about their ability to prevent them breaking in. The article quotes Dan Hubbard, the Vice President of Security Research at Websense as saying that from a purely...
Read More | Apr 10th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: 34 Days Ago
FrSIRT, the French Security Incident Response Team, has reported that multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various IP-PBX software applications that can be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and cause denial of service attacks or otherwise compromise vulnerable...
Read More | Mar 22nd, 2008
Paul Battley is a software developer from London who can probably lay claim to being the biggest thorn in the side of the BBC right now. No sooner had the mighty British Broadband Corporation announced that his hack which allowed people to download iPlayer TV streams meant for an iPhone to a hard...
Read More | Mar 16th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Mar 20th, 2008
According to a newly published research paper from the Harvard Medical School backed Medical Device Security Center, it appears that hackers could use wireless technology to turn off heart pacemakers. As unlikely as it sounds, the boffins reckon that people with an implantable cardiac...
Read More | Mar 12th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 14th, 2008
The Cult of the Dead Cow, the infamous hacking collective, has released a Google hacking utility called Goolag Scan that brings the ability to search the information engine for web-based data that is normally hidden to anyone wannabe with a web browser and half a brain. It does this by implementing...
Read More | Feb 27th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 27th, 2008
The Black Hat security conferences are always good for a crowd pleasing demonstration or two, and security researcher Adam Laurie was happy to oblige at the latest DC based event. In a 'look no hands' fashion, he was able to pull up account data including name, account number and expiration date...
Read More | Feb 23rd, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 26th, 2008
When you think of security, it's a good bet that some of your thinking drifts to hackers and crackers. These are both security threats that you have to take into account. But do you know the difference? Well, some people do, and although many of them don't want their names bandied about, as is the...
Read More | Feb 15th, 2008
A CIA analyst speaking at the SANS 2008 SCADA and Process Control Summit in New Orleans has admitted that hackers have not only been able to penetrate the power grids of several countries, but also successfully cut power to several cities, all from the relative safety of the Internet. Central...
Read More | Jan 25th, 2008
According to a posting by someone calling themselves Gabriel, published on the Full Disclosure list (warning – this link contains the so-called plot spoiler), the ending of the yet to be published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book has been revealed. Not by magic or wizardry, but by good...
Read More | Jun 24th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jun 24th, 2007
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