Hackers and cybercrime prevention

Hackers costing enterprises billions

Symantec's semi-annual Internet Threat Report finds hackers continued adding billions to the cost of doing business on the Internet. Continue Reading

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• Mark Baard

New attacks and vulnerability trends highlighted at Black Hat

Presentations beginning today will analyze vulnerabilities, zero-day code, phishing and secure wireless deployment, among many other topics. Continue Reading

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• Shawna McAlearney, News Writer

Learning about Security Threats: Profiling

A look at what it means to be a hacker. Continue Reading

Debian fixes multiple flaws

Denial-of-service, buffer overflow and format string vulnerabilities in Debian GNU/Linux that an attacker could use to remotely execute malicious code has been fixed. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Users at risk after web host attack

Users have been warned to brace themselves for attacks on sites which provide patch downloads and web hosting services. Continue Reading

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• Arif Mohamed

Hacking for Dummies: Chapter 10 -- Wireless LANs

Read Chapter 10, Wireless LANs, from the book "Hacking for Dummies" written by Kevin Beaver. Continue Reading

Hacking For Dummies: Chapter 7 -- Passwords

In his latest book, "Hacking For Dummies," Kevin Beaver takes the reader into the mindset of a hacker in order to help admins fend off vulnerabilities and attacks. Continue Reading

IBM and Cisco battle remote attack vulnerabilities

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• Edmund X. DeJesus, Contributing Writer

Security legislation: Where's the breach?

Security legislation isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Find out how California's SB 1386 is letting some breaches fall through the cracks. Continue Reading

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• Michael Fitzgerald, Contributing Writer

Essential contacts

The security arena is like every other aspect of the IT industry, suppliers and special interest groups come and go. However,... Continue Reading

MoD slated for unresolved Chinook testing issues

BCS member Andrew Rivers has raised a series of questions with his local MP about the computer systems on board the Chinook helicopter which crashed over the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, killing 29 security officers and four crew Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins