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For Kevin Mitnick, staying legal is job No. 1 | InSecurity Complex – CNET News. Kevin Mitnick was eager to participate in a social-engineering contest at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last weekend and was told he would target Microsoft in the event. He figured it would be fun to show off his [...]

With the advent of banking Trojans  such as the Clampi virus spreading like wildfire across the Internet, the security of online banking and financial transactions needs to be addressed more so than at any other time in history.   The virus, called Clampi, “is pretty scary,” says Tim Wilson, editor of DarkReading, a technology security news [...]

UPDATE: Google blocked this site early this evening – Compromising sites: all database field pointers to http://a0v<dot>org/x<dot>js iframe exploit: www.jejsaj.com | js.tongji.linezing.com Domain created on 7-21-09 Canonical name: sam-07.dns0755.net Aliases: a0v.org caojjbb.1.jp.hapt03.cn Addresses: 59.146.119.25 IP Location: Japan Tokyo – So-net Service Registrant ID:r4n11l1qh10284 Registrant Name:ai av Registrant Organization:ai av Registrant Street1:Star Street Star Street Star [...]

Hackers are at it again, trying to break the webserver login/password at Teksquisite. On a daily basis I see reports of failed login attempts from hackers utilizing automated scripts (dictionary attacks.) Some of the favorite login names that they look for are: root, admin, administrator, sales, and samba An example of the most recent attack [...]

In a WLAN, anything you broadcast over the air can be intercepted.  By default a wireless network is wide open to all until security is configured. Even when security is configured information can still be intercepted! It is very important that you strengthen the “out of the box” default mode that was set by the [...]