SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 346 records
 
Expand article

Prediction 2 for 2008 - Stealth "Hackers"

2008-01-25 08:11:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...Hackers This isn't really a new thing. Hackers as we know them (and I use the word hacker in the evyl-skript-kiddie-with-toyz way and not the kind-open-source-guru way) are slowly moving toward the idea that "cool, we can make good money from this In the past hacking was really done for the cool stories hackers could tell their friends to...
 
Tags: hackers, traditional hackers, cool stories hackers, big-bang hackers, stealth hackers, cool, gather information, information, technical ability
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Catch not-so-smart hackers to send message to smart hackers

2007-05-10 07:00:33 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Hackers interact with software/hardware in order to compromise Confidenitality, Integrity and Availability of software/hardware. The adjective "smart" in the phrase "smart hackers" distinguishes those hackers who can compromise Confidentialy, Integrity and Availability in such a way that they leave minimal or no audit trail There are technical...
 
Tags: not-so-smart hackers, hackers, not-so-smart, smart, smart hackers, employee, smart-deviant employee, hackers interact, smart hacker
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Hackers get busted

2007-11-30 11:08:26 by Dan Cvrcek in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Hackers do use various tools either publicly available, or made by the hacker themself. There may be errors in the tools, but they will be probably fixed very quickly, especially if they are popular. Hackers often allow others to use the tools if it is for testing or fame. But hacking for profit is a quite creative job, and there is plenty...
 
Tags: hackers, procedures, reconstruct operational procedures, hacker themself, tools, mistakes, hacker, bright, bbc news
 
 
 
 
Expand article

HP Corners the Market on Hackers

2008-02-12 00:31:42 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...hackers came to HP through the SPI Dynamics acquisition, he boasts, although its not immediately clear who ranked those top 11 The he is Mark Potts CTO of Software, Hewlett-Packard. When I read that the first thing that came to mind was; Billy Hoffman is top 10 material? The end is near!! (joking) Then I wondered who is ranking hackers and...
 
Tags: top, worlds top, hackers, alicia, alicia key, security hackers, security consultant, pci sets, mark potts cto
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Foreign Hackers Stealing American Health Care Records

2008-02-20 12:30:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...hackers, primarily from Russia and China, are increasingly seeking to steal Americans' health care records, according to a Department of Homeland Security analyst Mark Walker, who works in DHS' Critical Infrastructure Protection Division, told a workshop audience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the hackers' primary...
 
Tags: health care records, health, foreign hackers, hackers, health care data, national security standpoint, homeland security analyst, walker, mark walker
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Tall stories from Chinese hackers

2008-03-08 15:53:03 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...hackers (in the same way that the American government is probably also doing so). What would surprise me would be hearing one of those hackers talking about it. And as he is so forthcoming in talking to CNN then why wont he "specify what was gleaned" when talking about the alleged Pentagon website hack? The last point about high security...
 
Tags: chinese hacker, hacker, typical hacker arrogance, security websites, pentagon, chinese government, cnn, pentagon website hack, hackers
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Hackers Invade Mars

The Article has images
2008-06-03 11:50:49 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...hackers replaced the lead blog entry with graffiti that read hacked by VITAL. As if that wasnt enough, members of the self-declared sql loverz crew redirected baffled visitors of the Phoenix missions official webpage and a companion site to a third-party destination. That page gave credit to hackers going by the names BLaSTER and Cr@zy king...
 
Tags: hackers, security pros, security pros responsible, script kiddies, sites, high-profile sites, lead blog entry, sql loverz crew, companion site
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Hackers Run Wild Spending BitTorrent Trackers Donations

2007-12-30 00:50:07 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The SuperTorrents BitTorrent tracker has been the subject of a major security breach, with hackers donating all the site's money to a religious group. The hackers even went as far as contacting the site's host and canceled all of their seedboxes
 
Tags: hackers, supertorrents bittorrent tracker, major security breach, site, subject, money, seedboxes, host, religious
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Who guards the guard and evolution of the hackers?

2007-11-20 14:46:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...hackers obviously dont want to happen Rich argues for increased enforcement of laws already on the books, saying that penalties are fine, but as long as you have rules that arent enforced, the bad guys will continue to act with a blatant disregard for those laws It seems to me that theyre all touching upon the same fundamental point, but...
 
Tags: hackers, guards, paypal account information, rich argues, million, mike, lesser hackers, traditional security measures, schiefer
 
 
 
 
Expand article

China worries hackers will strike during Beijing Olympics

2008-04-24 00:00:00 by Sumner Lemon in Network World on Security
 
While CNN recently faced distributed denial-of-service attacks from Chinese hackers angry about the television network's coverage of a recent Chinese crackdown in Tibet, Chinese sec