A report in German newspaper, Die Welt, suggests the hunt may now move to Germany with investigators seeking an 'ethical' hacker known as Mixter. The hacker, Mixter, has released his own set of guidelines for dealing with denial-of-service attacks...
Network Associates and the CERT Coordination Centre at Carnegie Mellon University kept the vulnerability under wraps until a patch could be developed and made widely available. The problem, discovered by researchers at Network Associates' Covert...
This is not the first time the RIAA has been a potential target of hacker humour. In an advisory posted to security mailing lists, a group called Gobbles Security delivered its latest vulnerability - a real one found in a relatively unknown MP3...
It's like giving a hacker a key to a locked door," Rateliff said. Alan Rateliff II, an independent security consultant, on Friday said he discovered a vulnerability in the Linksys WRTS54G 802.11g wireless router.
The buffer overflow can cause a memory overload and program crash which enables a hacker to attack the affected system. A buffer overflow vulnerability has also been discovered, by Wade Alcorn of NGSSoftware.
Earlier this year, Fortify Software undertook some research into the security implications of web 2.0 and unearthed the JavaScript hijacking vulnerability. Existing vulnerabilities in browsers and Java can allow hackers to compromise users...