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Trojan lurks, waiting to steal admin passwords Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.They have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers -- including more than 14,000 Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Security vendors report 'critical' Trojan exploit for Mac SecureMac and Intego are separately reporting the existence of a new security threat for Mac, claiming the existence of multiple variants of a new Trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.The Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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S.F. Admin Coughs Up Passcodes to Mayor San Francisco regains control of its network after the city admin who hijacked the system nine days ago turns over the stolen passwords to Mayor Gavin Newsom in a secret jailhouse meeting. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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S.F. Admin Coughs Up Passcodes to Mayor San Francisco regains control of its network after the city admin who hijacked the system nine days ago turns over the stolen passwords to Mayor Gavin Newsom in a secret jailhouse meeting. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Report: IT admin locks up San Francisco's network A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Trojan Horses Still Kicking After All These Years More than 3,000 years after Greek invaders tricked their way into Troy with a wooden horse, hackers still somehow manage to fool web users into clicks that result in stolen passwords and personal details. The more judgmental among us might say that since we've learned nothing in three millennia, we Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Trojan Horses Still Kicking After All These Years More than 3,000 years after Greek invaders tricked their way into Troy with a wooden horse, hackers still somehow manage to fool web users into clicks that result in stolen passwords and personal details. The more judgmental among us might say that since we've learned nothing in three millennia, we Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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San Francisco System Admin Pleads Not Guilty - CRN Ontario NowSan Francisco System Admin Pleads Not GuiltyCRN - 1 hour agoBy Brian Kraemer, ChannelWeb The San Francisco city computer network administrator who allegedly took over the city's FiberWAN network pleaded not guilty Thursday.IT Administrator Pleads Not Guil Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Rare Mac Trojan exploits Apple vuln iPwned A rare Mac OS X Trojan has been spotted on the internet. The AppleScript-THT Trojan horse exploits a vulnerability within the Apple Remote Desktop Agent to load itself with root privileges onto compromised Mac machines.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Digital Domain: Goodbye, Passwords. You Aren’t a Good Defense. Tired of creating and changing Web site passwords? Many experts propose dropping passwords entirely for a security system based on cryptography. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Tip of the Trade: Cracking Passwords ServerWatch: "Enforcing password security with a multiple-user system can be a hassle users all too often use inadequate passwords. john-the-ripper (also available via most distros) is a password-cracking tool that enables the identification of vulnerable passwords before someone with nefar Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Sys admin jailed for 30 months over failed logic bomb Tick, tick, tick, tick... oh A former sys admin at Medco Health Solutions, a US prescription management and health information firm, has been jailed for 30 months over a failed attempt to destroy its systems using a "logic bomb" computer virus.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Prosecutor: Admin Rigged City Network for 'Failure' A San Francisco prosecutor told a judge that network admin Terry Childs rigged the city's network for "failure" if there was a power outage. A routine outage was scheduled for July 19 but was canceled out of caution. Childs' attorney called the accusation "spurious" and a judge declined to release C Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Prosecutor: Admin Rigged City Network for 'Failure' A San Francisco prosecutor told a judge that network admin Terry Childs rigged the city's network for "failure" if there was a power outage. A routine outage was scheduled for July 19 but was canceled out of caution. Childs' attorney called the accusation "spurious" and a judge declined to release C Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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'First' iPhone Trojan rolls into town More a prank than a threat Hackers have created Trojan horse malware targeted at Apple's much-hyped iPhone device.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Skype Trojan wiretap plan leaks onto the net We have ways of hearing you talk German cops are pushing ahead with controversial plans, yet to be legally approved, to develop "remote forensic software" - in other words, a law enforcement Trojan.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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InfoJack Trojan burrows into Windows CE machines China syndrome - for now Miscreants have created a Trojan capable of infecting mobile devices running Windows CE.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Chinese mobile users targeted by Trojan Smart mobile malware Miscreants have created a ransomware Trojan for mobile phones which has been seen in the wild in China. Kiazha-A, attempts to extort money from users of Symbian Series 60 phones.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Database Trojan infests pro-Tibet websites Chinese whispers Security researchers have unearthed more details about a Trojan that targets backend databases as well as desktop clients.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |