Silcott 'Asleep' as PC Hacked to Death on Estate
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PC Blakelock, Who Left Three Sons, Mark,
Kevin and Lee, Was Set Upon by a Mob and
Hacked to Death During the R
PC Blakelock, Who Left Three Sons, Mark,
Kevin and Lee, Was Set Upon by a Mob and
Hacked to Death During the R
12/03/2003 06:21 AMScotsman Online Dec 3 2003 5:16AM ET
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You've Been Hacked!
You've Been Hacked!
06/24/2005 09:40 PMSeven signs that a bad guy has commandeered your financial life.
PSP hacked into something more useful
PSP hacked into something more useful
04/06/2005 06:17 PMApparently hackers have turned Sony's latest portable game player, the
PSP handheld, into a device for online chat, Web browsing, and a venue
for movies and music. Leave it to hackers who managed to add an online
chat function by hijacking a Web browser built into a racing game
called "Wipeout Pure." Once the hackers are able to change the PSP's
network settings, they can point the browser to a Web portal. There's
also a way for hackers to transfer TV programs recorded on the TiVo
service to the PSP player, a program for reading e-books, and a viewer
for...
Three Estate Must-Dos
Three Estate Must-Dos
01/16/2004 01:03 PMDo your family a favor: Don't leave these important "to do" items
unattended.
Cisco Hacked?
Cisco Hacked?
05/17/2004 10:38 AMSpooky news for the biggest makers of the Internet's infrastructure.
I Hacked at O'Reilly
I Hacked at O'Reilly
03/19/2003 10:24 PM
The
O'Reilly Hacks site now
has a hacks page for each contributor; mine's
here.
""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked.""
""We have a policy that we are not being
hacked.""
07/03/2004 02:10 AMHow your phone could be hacked
How your phone could be hacked
04/25/2004 08:41 PMZDNet Apr 26 2004 0:36AM GMT
Is It Illegal To Get Hacked?
Is It Illegal To Get Hacked?
04/21/2004 03:53 PMTower Records and the FTC have apparently
reached a settlement
after the FTC accused them of allowing hackers to access customer
records. This brings up a very interesting question that isn't often
discussed. Since hack attacks to get at customer data happen
all
the time how does anyone determine whether or not the company
itself is negligent in not protecting the data? At what point is it
negligence rather than just being vulnerable? If the standard is set
too low, then companies have less incentive to protect their data
(though, pissed off customers may provide that incentive). However,
blaming the victim for being hacked seems to present a lot of slippery
slope style questions.
Will the election be hacked?
Will the election be hacked?
02/10/2004 02:44 AMA Salon special report reveals how new voting machines could result in
a rigged presidential race -- and we'd never know.
"Blogrolling.com has been hacked"
"Blogrolling.com has been hacked"
11/18/2003 10:22 AMHacked for Spam
Hacked for Spam
12/08/2003 11:18 PMFrom the New York
Times:
Computer security researchers have been watching the evolution of
remote-access rogue programs as they have become more common and have
put more machines under the control of hackers. Programs like Sinit
infect target machines and surreptitiously open back doors that allow
outsiders to control the PC's. The rings of infected computers have
been used to send spam, to present online advertisements for
pornographic Web sites or to trick people into giving up information
like credit card numbers.
In fact, at least a third of all spam circulating on the
Internet is now sent from or relayed by personal home computers that
have been taken over, said Jesse Dougherty, director of
development at Sophos, an antivirus and antispam company.
Emphasis mine. Of course, whether or not you want to believe a
director from a company that directly profits from people's fear of
security attacks is up to you. That said, I've seen plenty of
supporting evidence in the past few months that indicates that
spamming is now the number one reason that a cracker would want to
take over a PC, not least
this Wired article.
Continuing on the same theme, The Rise of the
Spammers is a fascinating article by David Barroso Berrueta
describing how one of his servers was turned in to a spam relay after
being compromised through a vulnerability in a PHP script. The technical details
are intriguing; the attacker downloaded and uncompressed a daemon
which then communicated with another host using an extended version of
the SMTP
protocol, receiving spam email bodies along with lists of addresses to
send the spam on to.
Let's talk about the PHP vulnerability in question: yet again, it
was the classic problem where an attacker can instruct PHP to download and
execute code from their own server by feeding in a query string
parameter that is passed un-checked to an include() function call. While there are a number
of steps that can be taken to deny this kind of attack, it unveils a
fundamental problem with PHP itself - that it will execute code
retrieved from a URL in the first place! This feature should be removed
from PHP - it
has almost no purpose in the real world aside from allowing servers to
be cracked in to. The feature exists because PHP has the extremely useful ability
to open
remote files over HTTP. Unfortunately, this feature extends to the
include() and require() functions which will execute any PHP code in the file
passed to the functions. The most obvious solution to my mind would be
for these functions to refuse to execute PHP in files that were opened via
HTTP. I have no
doubt that this would involve an ugly hack on behalf of PHP's maintainers, but I
believe the number of security problems it would solve would be well
worth the trade-off.
Incidentally, I know you can disable opening files over HTTP
and I know you shouldnt allow the direct creation of
variables from the query string in the first place. The problems here
are two-fold: firstly, opening files over HTTP is actually a very useful feature,
one that would be all the more useful if it didn't carry the risk of
executing arbitrary code. Secondly, the problem is mainly down to
third party software which often requires insecure PHP settings (such as
register_globals) in order to work.
Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II
Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?
Part II
08/01/2004 12:27 AMDirect and Related Links for
'Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do? Part II'
If you missed part 1 of this series, I strongly suggest that you
read it here. “On This Page: There Is More to Information
Security Than Viruses Salvaging Data in the Absence of Backups
Recovering After an Attack – What Tools Will Help?
Conclusion”…
The Internet As The Fifth Estate?
The Internet As The Fifth Estate?
04/14/2004 01:05 PMThere's a constant (and, it seems, incredibly boring) debate about
"blogs vs. journalism" - which seems sort of pointless to me. It's
not as if this is a zero sum game where there's room for only one.
The two work off of each other, and often the lines are quite blurry
between them. Trying to set up a specific "us vs. them" dichotomy is
only an attempt (by everyone who bothers) to get more publicity.
Still, I found it interesting to find an
editorial in a large newspaper suggesting that the internet has
become "the fifth estate." It's not often you see the mainstream
press admitting that anyone outside of themselves has a place in their
world at all.
Don't Bet on Real Estate
Don't Bet on Real Estate
03/29/2005 09:06 AMThere are good and not-so-good ways to invest in real estate.
"Real estate"
"Real estate"
04/08/2005 10:10 AMNot Life After Death -- Email After
Death
Not Life After Death -- Email After
Death
09/25/2004 09:08 PMGoogle email being hacked
Google email being hacked
08/10/2004 06:00 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Google email
being hacked'
“Software designed to exploit the much lauded Gmail service
has been released this week. Aptly named “Gmail Hack” the
software performs Dictionary and Brute Force Attacks against a GMail
email account.” FYI to those of us with Gmail accounts. Be sure
you’re using strong password practices!…
UK Officially The Most Hacked Country
UK Officially The Most Hacked Country
03/22/2005 03:39 PMMSN Korea Hacked, Shut Down
MSN Korea Hacked, Shut Down
06/05/2005 11:59 PMMSN was forced to take its South Korean Web site down for ten hours on
Thursday after hackers broke into the site and added code to attempt
to steal user passwords. While Microsoft said the news section of the
site was the only part affected, the company removed the entire site
as a precaution.
Old National Bank Hacked
Old National Bank Hacked
03/25/2005 11:42 PME-Voting Firm Hacked
E-Voting Firm Hacked
12/29/2003 02:58 PMWhile lots of people have pointed out the risks of electronic voting,
now a story is coming out that one firm providing e-voting technology
has been hacked. Of
course, it sounds like the break-in was on their corporate network,
and not of the voting system itself, but this is the sort of thing
that will make people think twice about trusting electronic voting
systems. In fact, the company thinks that the break-in may have been
motivated by political reasons.
Has your wireless connection been hacked
Has your wireless connection been hacked
12/26/2003 03:04 AMI am very strict about personal PC security and have levels of
protection on my systems that most people would...
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
10/11/2002 07:56 AMInternet News Oct 10 2002 0:40AM ET
SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again
SCO Group Web Site Hacked Again
12/10/2003 07:46 PMSan Jose Mercury News Dec 10 2003 6:53PM ET
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
CERT: Sendmail Hacked
10/09/2002 09:46 AMSome copies of the source code for Sendmail has been hacked by an
intruder and now contain a Trojan horse.
hacked with greater regularity
hacked with greater regularity
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.name registry site hacked
.name registry site hacked
12/02/2003 01:55 AMApache exploit causes embrassment
More Than 100,000 DSW Customers' Data
Hacked
More Than 100,000 DSW Customers' Data
Hacked
03/14/2005 05:56 PMSCO Group Web site hacked again
SCO Group Web site hacked again
12/10/2003 09:10 PMBoston Globe Dec 10 2003 7:25PM ET
E-Voting company gets hacked
E-Voting company gets hacked
12/30/2003 01:18 PMNow another firm specializing in e-voting technology, Bellevue
WA-based VoteHere, has been hacked.
Google's Web site is hacked
Google's Web site is hacked
07/26/2004 10:50 PMBig News Network Jul 27 2004 2:57AM GMT
Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again...
Acxiom Database Hacked Again... And
Again... And Again...
07/21/2004 08:22 PMAcxiom is one of the nation's largest providers of direct marketing
(spam) lists, and the company can't seem to keep its databases safe
from hackers. Late last year a man was caught
copying
one of their databases. Now, in what appears to be a much bigger
case, authorities have
hacking into the database repeatedly over a year and a half to
retrieve names and personal info which he then sold for thousands
of dollars to spammers. "Information accessed included names,
addresses, e-mail addresses, customer demographics, and probably some
birth dates and Social Security numbers." They discovered the breach
soon after the first case, when they decided (what an idea) that it
might make sense to actually check to make sure their databases were
secure. And, of course, for those who are already in an Acxiom
database and worried about the implications and would like out of
their database, remember that they
make it
as difficult as possible to "opt out."
Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked?
Windows Forensics: Have I been Hacked?
07/20/2004 11:02 AMSCO hacked in apparent IP protest
SCO hacked in apparent IP protest
12/19/2004 03:37 PMMicrosoft.com Hacked and Defaced
Microsoft.com Hacked and Defaced
05/24/2004 03:40 PMTechie alert: Even you can be hacked
Techie alert: Even you can be hacked
06/11/2004 09:51 AMGrok Description matches for Silcott 'Asleep' as PC Hacked to Death on Estate
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