Hackers: Archive: October 2005

Sun Flaws Make Contest Fodder

The company wants developers to find a way to crack the new security component to be found in J2SE 6.0.

SMBs Getting Hammered by New Threats

A new study shows small to medium businesses lack the expertise to battle phishing and spyware.

Companies Bid for Authentication Compliance Work

Financial institutions are getting started on security compliance regulations.

Finding the Right Mix for Information Assurance

Columnist Penny Klein says there are three key areas to information assurance. If your company isn't focused on all three, you're not really secured.

Snort's Intrusion System Blows a Hole

The open source intrusion detection system has a serious security vulnerability.

Email Security: How Much is Enough?

Corporate networks are under attack from email threats and viruses. To protect the network, we layer security, but how many layers are enough? How much is too little?

In Search of Authentication's Holy Grail

Columnist Ray Everett-Church looks ahead to the day every checking account, credit card and coffee honor card comes with its own authentication gizmo. How do we avoid ending up in that mess?

Mozilla FireFox DoS Exploit Code Released

Security firm releases exploit code based on a non-critical bug that causes browser to crash.

Feds Bust Massive Piracy Scheme

Indictments follow DoJ raids in Texas and California targeting large-scale operations.

Red Hat Tests Security Skills

The Linux distributor launches a performance-based security cert for the OS.

Grant Thornton Tracks Thieves, Secures Laptops

Grant Thornton is using a sort of LoJack for laptops, enabling them to track stolen laptops and better manage their assets.

Microsoft Addresses Tardy Patch

The company releases three critical, four important and two moderate security bulletins, including one held from last month.

Fine Line Between a White Hat and Black Hat

Columnist Linda LeBlanc says while she's not really a black hat, she can't really call herself a white hat, either. To be a security professional, sometimes you need to be a grey hat.

Microsoft to Patch 9 on Tuesday

Is XP SP3 in the wings?

Vendors Team Up to Solve Virus Naming Confusion

A growing group of anti-virus companies are working together to tackle the confusion that grows out of the same malware getting different names from different vendors.

Targeted Virus Attacks Replace Sweeping Assaults

Massive virus attacks that clobber the Internet are giving way to pin-pointed assaults that quietly go after specific companies and agencies.

Disaster Recovery Sites: How Far Away is Far Enough?

The recent devastation from Gulf Coast hurricanes raises an important question for enterprises: How far away should your disaster recovery site be?

DoJ Grounds Katrina Relief Web Site

Feds claim fraudster raised donations by falsely claiming to be flying humanitarian flights to New Orleans.

Phishers Use Photos for Catch

Scammers using authentic sites for dirty work.

California Outlaws Phishing

It becomes the first state to make the scam a civil violation.