http://www.silicon.com Results for hack en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60817569p,00.htm Today's companies need to increase efforts to protect against a crippling Web site hack or data breach as Web applications and Web site attacks are increasing in frequency and cost to recover customer confidence. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39623462,00.htm Customers are responsible for their own wi-fi security, according to hotspot operators. BT Openzone, The Cloud and T-Mobile all recommended wi-fi users adopt VPNs to help protect themselves while using hotspots. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:48:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39607326,00.htm The Guardian Jobs site has suffered a hack that could have exposed the sensitive data of some users. Personal details included in users' job applications may have been accessed by the hackers, according to an email sent to affected users by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:13:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/broadband/0,39024661,39586410,00.htm ISP TalkTalk has criticised proposals by the government to cut illegal file-sharers' internet access, on the grounds of wi-fi vulnerability to hacking. In a blog post last week, Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk's executive director for strategy and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:40:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39574739,00.htm In March of this year, a friendly 'hackday' - called Rewired State, or 'National Hack the Government Day' - was held at The Guardian's London offices. Where to look for the next wave of corporate innovation? editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60729596p,00.htm This paper shows how easy it is to penetrate the average website and gain information about the underlying database structures inside a network firewall. The nation of SQL injection isn't new, but is still widely misunderstood and many sites are... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:22:18 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39527467,00.htm Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a US-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:02:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39516151,00.htm Earlier this year, the AFP was called in by the AGD to investigate the hack of the Classification Board's website, which occurred shortly after the Australian minister for communications Stephen Conroy appeared on an Australian current affairs... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:05:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60677789p,00.htm As organizations have grown increasingly dependent on online software, the risk of malicious attacks has also become far more serious. Such attacks can bring a business to a standstill, cost a company millions of dollars in lost transactions and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:22:42 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39500001,00.htm If you are using a GSM phone - the 2G standard used by the majority of the world's mobiles - you are likely to have just a few more months before it will be easy for practically anyone to spy on your communications. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:04:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39495230,00.htm Currently, geo-focused apps like Foursquare must hack location data into updates by linking them to web pages. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new feature in its API: the capability to optionally put... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:59:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39490610,00.htm The three men were indicted on charges of conspiring to hack into computer networks and stealing data as far back as October 2006. Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:58:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39472097,00.htm However, the government service insisted the website had been secured quickly, and that at no time had any intelligence operatives been exposed by the hack. MI5 has closed up a flaw on its website that could have opened up visitors to malicious... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:34:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39465597,00.htm During their presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences next week in Las Vegas, security experts will release a tool that can be used to break into Oracle databases. Chris Gates and Mario Ceballos will present Oracle pen-testing... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:23:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39452609,00.htm McKinnon, who has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, faces extradition to the US for what prosecutors there have described as "the biggest military hack of all time". The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary McKinnon, the self... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:48:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,39449355,00.htm The decision to effectively hack iTunes but also market it as a key feature is a risky strategy for a company which has invested all its hopes on the Pre. One of the Pre's marketed features is essentially a hack of Apple's iTunes software. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39447840,00.htm It's almost security conference season in Las Vegas and with one month to go, a presentation has been pulled from Black Hat and Defcon. Juniper Networks says it pulled a talk about a flaw in ATM software that one of its researchers was scheduled to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:19:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60598144p,00.htm The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to warn over 45,000 employees that their personal data may have been compromised in a hack of one of its computer systems. This paper describes the immediate needs confronted by Federal government... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39431375,00.htm The winning hack this year was Open FreeCycle which makes the online recycling community Freecycle searchable using the Yahoo Mail API, the Yahoo! promotes its open strategy are regular Hack Days, the eighth of which was held in London last weekend. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 15 May 2009 16:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39420667,00.htm If you want to make sure your systems are safe from hackers, you've got to test, test, test, says Quocirca's Fran Howarth. The top two threats facing organisations today are web-based applications and end users, according to information security... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:00:00 +0000