How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques

"We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean? Is hacking really as inaccessible as many of us imagine; a nefarious, impossibly technical twilight...

Short hiatus while moving climateaudit.org Steve McIntyre

"Today Tomorrow (Thursday) sometime around 11am Pacific Standard Time, this server will go offline to be moved to its final home inside a colocation data center in California.The IP address will change, so give Anthony and team a couple of hours to move the server and...

Hyperjacking - the latest threat to servers

With virus and phishing attacks now passé, computer hackers are eyeing off a new technical challenge: hyperjacking. Still in its infancy, hyperjacking revolves around the corporate world's newfound enthusiasm for application virtualisation.Virtualisation allows multiple...

How Internet Criminals Will Evade Vista's Safeguards

Think malware will fade away with Vista? Sorry. There's about as much chance of the thriving throngs of online criminals packing up shop as there is of Microsoft doing the same. "Malware technology will evolve just like a business," says Vlad Gorelik, chief technology...

Chinese Turn To Japanese For Online Porn

"Much ado has been made over China's constant efforts to protect its citizens from the nefarious influence of free flowing Internet information. Falun Gong, Wikipedia, Reporters Without Borders, BBC News, any reference to June 4, 1989, Taiwan independence or a free Tibet are...

Student Finds Security Flaw, Gets Booted from ISP

No good deed goes unpunished, it would seem: one would think that BeThere (the ISP in question)would be thrilled to have one of their subscribers so on top of this, particularly since they missed the flaw. "A 21-year-old college student in London had his internet service...