Mitnick: The point is now I am taking my knowledge and experience to help educate government and industry on how to protect their assets, instead of using my former hobby to create grief. Hacking is now looked at as a serious crime.
Research published late last year showed that most people believe IT and mobile communications have helped to make working life easier, but found that some professionals were becoming stressed by the constant distraction of incoming emails.
Terrorist attacks and environmental terrorism were among the top concerns, along with time-honoured threats such as hacking and computer viruses. If you have in place security to protect you from hackers, virus writers, script kiddies and the very...
However, even if they are, hacking tools are available that can make packets do just that. To demonstrate the potential danger that enterprises with unsecured VoIP systems face, the Voice over IP Security Association (Voipsa) has published a list...
Pure Hacking security researcher Chris Gatford said: "This can be used to forward all your incoming email. Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming emails from Google...
There are a few more bits of empty posturing from the government here but overall it’s a significant victory for opponents of ID cards, which, let's face it, is pretty much everyone who lives in Britain who doesn't read the Daily Mail or the Daily...