HP is to launch a penetration-testing service for businesses in October using controlled exploit code.
The software giant acknowledges that a hacker broke into its Windows beta testing network and had access to yet-unreleased software.
A renowned security researcher, known as Rain Forest Puppy (RFP), has branded virtualisation technologies such as VMWare as "very risky" when used in production environments, during his swan-song presentation at Australia's Hack 2003 conference.
Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions have bought Oracle a perhaps unexpected bonus: security lessons.
A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.
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In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
HP is to launch a penetration-testing service for businesses in October using controlled exploit code.
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With hackers developing new methods of targeting us as quickly as we come up with defences, just how fragile is our wired economy?
The amount of hacking activity on the Internet has been revealed after one company set up an anonymous 'dummy test' server--and found it was maliciously attacked 467 times within 24 hours of being installed.
With its attack tool update, The Metasploit Project may be aiding online vandals more than helping network administrators identify weak points, security experts say. Additional reading: Patch management: All talk, no action?
Tracking down wireless hackers is getting easier, but there are still bugs to work out.
The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.
Your data is important to you, but do you know if others are trying to get at it? ZDNet Australia investigates.
In 2002, users and companies got a respite from the disruptive viruses of 2001. But a more sophisticated generation of worms is on the way.
HTC's Shift is yet another UMPC and another white elephant to add to the pile. By trying to be everything to everyone, the Shift succeeds at being nothing to anyone.
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Opening the floodgates on missing drives
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