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Computers in more than 100 countries worldwide have been infiltrated and compromised by a huge sleuthing computer network, nicknamed Ghostnet, that originates from China. A 10-month investigation carried out by Canadian-based...

The Government must stop changes to an anti-hacking law criminalising the work of security researchers, a House of Lords Committee has said. If it does not, internet security could become an even bigger danger because 'ethical...

The office cleaner wanders around the IT department emptying bins into a black plastic sack. He bends below each desk to look for stray sandwich wrappers and plastic cups. Whilst he’s under the desk, it is a matter of seconds for...

There’s another backdoor into many large networks which few organisations seem to recognise or understand – Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP is the Internet standard protocol developed to manage nodes (servers,...

A conference that attracts top security professionals from around the world is very tempting to hackers. Unless properly secured, the conference network could be vulnerable to attacks intended to disrupt the conference activity...

Social engineering used to be virtually unknown in the IT community – except, that is, amongst its practitioners. The recent wave of phishing scams (spoofed e-mails designed to harvest your credit card details) has raised...

If I were to wander into your offices, plug in my laptop and within minutes take control of your network infrastructure, would you be surprised?There’s a backdoor into many large networks which few organisations seem to recognise...

NASA hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal at the High Court against his extradition to the US to face a trial by prosecutors who allegedly told him he "would fry". McKinnon's lawyers will seek leave to appeal to the House of...

GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software announced today the release of GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) 8, the latest version of its award-winning...

Interesting to read over the weekend that Taiwan has the second worst Web site security among Asian countries, posting five network-hacking cases per day, second only to China.According to a report in the China Post, research...

Network filtering happens at the network protocol level and can be performed on routers and firewalls by analyzing headers of IP packets and allowing or denying forwarding based on source or destination address, protocol type,...

Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering is one of the first to quantify the near-constant rate of hacker...

Almost three quarters of the users of social networking sites surveyed gave out personal identifying information over the sites, according to corporate computing firm CA.Personally identifying information was given out despite...

Many adult users of social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook expose themselves to risk from identity thieves and hackers, according to a new US study reported in The RegisterThe focus of concerns over social networking...

The hacker at the centre of an extradition storm after he broke into the US Military and NASA computer systems has said that the charges against him in the US have been manufactured to ease his extradition there."For it to be...