items tagged with Hackers

Hacker groups have reported that man-in-the-middle attacks can be used to strip away the benefits of SSL security when transacting online. However, says the inventor of SSL, these are a browser problem and, moreso, they're not so black and white.

Security warnings about the impending Conficker worm attacks on computers around the globe have been with us for a while now, and as iTWire reported just a few days ago, while the predicted apocalypse didn’t engulf the world after all, the worm’s still out there.  But, be warned, we’re now in the midst of a new security threat of large-scale proportions, according to Kapersky!

A Christian writers’ website, Faithwriters.com, boasting 1.1 million unique visitors per month has apparently been hacked, with some 40,000 passwords believed to have been stolen and emails compromised, including those of hundreds of writers from Australia and New Zealand.

If you thought that the spotty teen hacker working from a back bedroom was an outdated stereotype now that organised cybercrime is big business, think again. It seems the server room is just as likely to be targeted by teens out to top up their pocket money.

The BBC in the UK has reported that it has easily acquired its own botnet controlling thousands of home computers as part of an investigation into global cybercrime.