Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.

“I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline ' they don't realize how cruel it is,” said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus…

Indian officials have accused China of methodically attacking the country’s servers for the past 18 months. Detecting attacks, however, is one thing?proving they originated from the desks of government-sponsored Chinese hackers is quite another.

The degree to which the Chinese government is actually involved in these attacks is still an open question, The Times' rhetoric notwithstanding. A continuing series of sophisticated and methodical assaults is no longer proof of another…

Security researchers have identified an unrestricted “command & control” server that exposes hoards of stolen data as well as providing a user-friendly interface for controlling networks of infected machines. It offers an interesting insight into black hat toolkits.

With user data services as described above, we now see that Crimeware has reached a new level of sophistication ? again!We see that Command & Control applications enable administrators to manage the actions and performance of their…

No-cost steps to take BEFORE your diaries, home sex vids & bank accounts fall into the hands of a thieving stranger…

+1 by ac042186 at 10:52 PM on 05/05/08 Reply by Email * At my university, they've been trying to promote STOP security plates. But I think it's supposed to help you recover your laptop/item more than prevent it from being stolen….

The first supported first version of Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud.

Sun is introducing three levels of paid support for the OpenSolaris 2008.5 code drop for developers and end users. Support starts at $49 per incident for developers and runs to $2,160 per system per year for tailored customizations, and includes…

Data released this week on 2007 wiretaps shows that nearly all intercepts are for “portable devices” and 80 percent of all taps target drug criminals. Secret FISA warrants are also up, and no one knows what’s happening with warrantless surveillance at the NSA.

And neither of these wiretapping numbers have anything to do with the warrantless surveillance being conducted on phone and Internet traffic by the National Security Administration. So take back all that I said above about surveillance only being…

Ask Pellicano, whose case went to the jury last week, and offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks than anyone else.

Indeed, the F.B.I. decrypted scores of Mr. Pellicano’s recordings after noticing that some of his pass phrases were written into the software’s source code itself — a rookie mistake, cryptology experts say. Several…

The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: “Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar,” “UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you.”

But the problem would largely disappear if server administrators configured their mail servers to immediately reject mail that is sent to nonexistent users, rather than accepting it and then bouncing it back to the faked addresses. Some ISPs…

Microsoft may have inadvertently disclosed a potential Microsoft backdoor for law enforcement earlier this week. … Although Microsoft is reluctant to give out details on its botnet buster ' the company said that even revealing its name could give cyber criminals a clue on how to thwart it? … People need to read between the lines.

We detect at the IP level based on a number of static and logic characteristics. We can analyze around 200 million spam messages a month from 80,000 partner domains and roll an average 25 million entry DNS zone. Once we release our zombie firewall…

Its rare that we would want to lock up our website with a password. However, there might be few occasions when we need to protect a few pages of our site (or whole) from the general public and made accessible to a selected group of users. For such times, here are 5 neat free tools that will help you get started.

PoppyDog Passsword Protector is a neat free online tool to password protect your web pages. In order to use the tool, you need to log in as a member at the PoppyDog site and access your member dashboard. You can add the password protector tool to…

… and China isn’t happy. Why? Because AMD did not deliver what was ordered. Interesting one.

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Don’t let hooligans handle your hardware. Here are eight ways to keep your notebook from being pinched–or to get it back if it is stolen.

Don't let hooligans handle your hardware. Here are eight ways to keep your notebook from being pinched–or to get it back if it is stolen.

This no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. “It basically ‘drills’ through the hard drive’s spindles which physically creates ripples in the platters making it impossible to recover any data,” OhGizmo says.

This no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. “It basically 'drills' through the hard drive's spindles which physically creates ripples in the…

ALL travellers to and from the US - including US Citizens - beware. US Customs have got carte blanche for confiscating and copying all of the data from your electronic devices and are not forced to tell you what they are doing with it, or how long they have it.

Over the past few months, several news reports have raised eyebrows after detailing border searches that involved electronic devices. The best known of them is this story from The Washington Post, which recounted the experiences of individuals who…