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Hackers to test OS vulnerability

News Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The contest is being run by the organisers of the CanSecWest security conference as a repeat of 2007...

Tags: laptops, linux, operating systems, macbook

8 February 2008, 9:17

Firefox promo site taken down by hackers

News SpreadFirefox.com, the marketing Web site for the open-source Firefox Web browser, has been hacked again and is expected to be offline until later this month. The cyber break-in was discovered this week, according to a notice sent on Tuesday by the...

5 October 2005, 9:26

Java flaws open door to hackers

News Sun Microsystems has fixed a pair of security bugs in Java that could be exploited by attackers to take over computers running Windows, Linux and Solaris. The flaws are 'highly critical', security monitoring company Secunia said in an advisory...

15 June 2005, 9:10

Security firm offers bounty on bugs

News TippingPoint -- part of 3Com -- is soliciting hackers to report vulnerabilities in exchange for money. Security intelligence firm iDefense, which was recently acquired by VeriSign, and the Mozilla Foundation also pay security researchers, or hackers.

25 July 2005, 8:39

Windows Wi-Fi vulnerability uncovered

News A Windows feature that automatically searches for Wi-Fi connections can be exploited by hackers, a security researcher has warned. Loveless claimed that hackers can take advantage of the feature to include a user's PC in a peer-to-peer network...

17 January 2006, 8:42

Sony cracks down on PSP hacks

News Sony is engaged in a tug-of-war with hackers who keep cracking its PlayStation Portable software to unlock the device and run their own applications on it. The company is preparing another update to the PSP firmware to fix a recently disclosed bug...

30 September 2005, 9:28

Peeping Taiwanese Trojan author is arrested

News Taiwanese police have arrested a man for writing and distributing a Trojan that was apparently used by Chinese hackers to steal and destroy information on government-owned computers in Taiwan. Wang An-ping, 30, an engineer from Kaohsiung, has...

28 May 2004, 11:30

New security proposed for do-it-all phones

News As mobile phones become digital do-it-alls, handsets need better protection from hackers and from unauthorised access when they're lost or stolen, says an industry group proposing new, hardware-based security standards for the devices.

28 September 2005, 8:50

Scams threaten online gamblers

News Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may increasingly be targeted by hackers looking to steal. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said the level of malware related to online gambling is very low, but he...

19 May 2006, 9:10

Security tools face increased attack

News As the pool of easily exploitable Windows security bugs dries up, hackers are looking for holes in security software to break into PCs, analysts have warned. As a result, antivirus software is like low-hanging fruit to hackers, according to the...

21 June 2005, 8:58

Zotob damage severe, but not widespread

News Rather than indicating that businesses are wising up to vulnerabilities, the survey shows that hackers' goals are changing. The nature of this worm and its ultimate business impact complements Cybertrust's intelligence that illustrates the goal of...

27 October 2005, 8:38

Parliament attacked with WMF exploit

News Parliament was attacked late last year by hackers who tried to exploit a recent serious Microsoft Windows flaw, security experts confirmed on Friday. The hackers may also have been able to install keylogging malicious software, said Toshack...

24 January 2006, 9:05

'WoW' accounts still susceptible to attack

News When the players visit the sites -- which are often unrelated to WoW, but that players frequent, Thompson said -- the software is quietly installed on their computers, allowing the hackers to spy on keystrokes and steal players' WoW passwords.

11 April 2007, 10:20

Window treatment could protect Wi-Fi from eavesdroppers

News Wireless hackers in the United Kingdom could soon face a new obstacle to stealing information. The film can even prevent hackers from stealing information from the light flicker emitted from computer monitors and reflected on a window, claims...

27 April 2005, 11:46

Linksys flaw opens door to home networks

News Cisco Systems has issued a patch for a security flaw in one of its Linksys routers that could give hackers access to consumers' home networks. The flaw gives hackers a free pass into the Web-based configuration page of the router when the firewall...

7 June 2004, 7:55