Rogues Attack World of Warcraft: You Are Entering Combat

Windows Warcrafters beware: hackers are looking to pwn you! These guys are evidently pros, having compromised The Dolphins Stadium website in an earlier attack."For months, hackers--most likely in China and Russia, according to security watchers--have been surreptitiously...

Cursor Hackers Target World of Warcraft

Hackers who exploit a Windows flaw have targeted World of Warcraft, whose virtual denizens have real-world monetary value. Seems some hackers are not only in it for the love of the game, as it were."World of Warcraft players are being targeted by hackers exploiting flaws in...

SEC Smacks Down Stock Spammers

What surprises me about this is that people even buy stocks based on breathless spam messages. Then again, if people didn't respond, then spammers wouldn't spam."The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken action against alleged stock promoters and hackers thought to...

Chinese hackers attack 'anything and everything'

"NORFOLK, Va. -- At the Naval Network Warfare Command here, U.S. cyber defenders track and investigate hundreds of suspicious events each day. But the predominant threat comes from Chinese hackers, who are constantly waging all-out warfare against Defense Department networks,...

The Price of E-Voting Secrets: 82 Bucks

It's frightening how simple these machines are, and how breathtakingly easy it is to bend them to your will. It's articles such as this that cement my belief that we should all upgrade to paper ballots."For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed...

RSA conference draws teams to fight organized hackers

"The industry will gather this week at Moscone Center in San Francisco for the RSA Conference, a chance to hear what the latest threats are -- and to see the latest tools to fight them.Images courtesy of sfgate.com" ''We need to be two steps ahead of the Internet crime...

Hackers: Massive DOS attack disables 3 of 13 Net "root" servers

The motive so far is unclear, but the rogue data has been traced back to South Korea"WASHINGTON - Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since...

Hackers exploit new Word attack

"Hackers are exploiting a new, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word that could allow them to take control of a victim's computer, Symantec has warned. The zero-day vulnerability is the fourth in Microsoft's widely-used Word 2000 software that has not yet been patched,...

Nmap Hackers: Seclists.Org shut down by Myspace and GoDaddy

"From: Fyodor <fyodor_at_insecure.org>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:47:47 -0800Hi everyone,Many of you reported that our SecLists.Org security mailing listarchive was down most of yesterday (Wed), and all you really need toknow is that we're back up and running! But I'm...

Diebold and Stealing the Vote: The Hack Saga Continues

Many on NowPublic have brought Diebold's questionable security to light in the recent past; this is yet another point in the case for paper ballots. "Imagine if all it took to get inside widely-used Diebold electronic voting machines--perhaps with malicious intentions, such...

CIBC Says Opp's

"Do you think the CIBC will lower service charges for having screwed up, of fire anyone? Nah.... For the second time in three years, the ability of the CIBC (TSX:CM) to protect confidential data has come under scrutiny after a computer file containing information on up...