A hacker stole sensitive data from a computer in the offices of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, police said, fueling his fears that rivals used it to try and keep him out of the presidential race. The security breach at Le Pen’s National Front party headquarters comes as the campaign intensified ahead of the [...]
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Hackers are starting to agitate for Microsoft to start paying for information on security flaws found in its software products. The issue surfaced this week after the MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Team) posted a message on the sla.ckers.org message board, calling on third-party researchers to submit vulnerability information directly to Redmond before going public. The [...]
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From the “neat-find-department” comes word from McAfee that Windows Vista is vulnerable to a Sticky Keys backdoor that could be exploited — under perfect circumstances — to launch malicious executables. McAfee researcher Vinoo Thomas said the security risk, which is already well-known on Windows XP, exists because Windows Vista does not check the integrity of [...]
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According to a March 10th eWeek article by Lisa Vaas, a self-proclaimed Romanian hacker posted eBay member information at an eBay forum (“Romanian Hacker Broadcasts eBay Customer Accounts”) . The hacker, who calls himself “Born_To_Scam_American_Guys”, also posted what amounts to a critique of American and Canadian computer users and their alleged helpful stupidity. Many of [...]
By: Scott Lindsay “Leaving your Web applications insecure makes no more sense than building a brick wall but using a gate made from chain link fencing.” – James Gaskin Whenever the President of the United States travels anywhere there are numerous individuals charged with making sure the President is secure and unharmed from attack. This [...]
An anonymous reader alerts us to a murder trial in New Jersey in which Google and MSN searches were used against a woman accused of killing her husband. In the days before the murder, prosecutors say the defendant searched for “How To Commit Murder,” “instant poisons,” “undetectable poisons,” “fatal digoxin doses,” and gun laws in [...]
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