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Scientists may have found a new way to combat random scanning internet worms such as the notorious Code Red and SQL Slammer infections.
Even though a vulnerability in the OpenSSL library used to generate key pairs on Debian-based Linux distributions has been fixed, IT administrators will be hard-pressed to ensure each key is unbreakable, a security researcher said this week. A new variant of the Kraken bot uses a word generator to produce bogus headers and random URLs in an attempt to evade host intrusion prevention technologies, according to security vendor PC Tools. Spammers have developed bots that are capable of signing up and creating random accounts on Microsoft's Windows Live Mail service, according to security researchers at Websense. Imagine you are sitting in front of your computer and all of a sudden you hear weird sounds coming from your hard drive. Google's hosted applications are always a favourite for spammers, and now Google Sites, a free hosting service, is moving to centre stage. O2's web application that allows users to view MMS messages on the Internet requires no authentication to view. Australia’s e-security framework is set to receive a major policy overhaul, the Attorney General Robert McClelland has announced. Cambridge University security researcher Dr Richard Clayton argues that BT should be prosecuted because it monitored internet users' websurfing habits without their permission, while the telco declines to say its activities were legal. The recent discovery of a potentially serious Secure Socket Layer (SSL) flaw affecting a popular Linux distribution should act as a wake up call to the open source community, experts warn.. The Asprox botnet, initially exclusively used for phishing scams, is now an SQL injection vector for website attacks. Debian Linux got a bit of a black eye this week with the announcement that a nasty cryptographic vulnerability exists in its version of the OpenSSL package. A group of Israeli researchers claims to have discovered a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system.. The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has today lobbied the Federal Government to secure the privacy of workers in light of the Government's move to give employers power to check emails at work. Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. When we think about IT saboteurs, most of us picture a professional cyber-criminal or hacker bent on stealing confidential information or wreaking havoc. In both cases, the perpetrator is an outside party who breaches the data network of a company, institution, or government entity with malicious intent. A new tool that uses the Google search engine to scan websites for vulnerabilities -- released last week by the flamboyant Texas-based hacking consortium known as Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) -- is not likely to enable a wave of new attacks from hackers, experts say. Spam originating from popular webmail services are spiking now that spammers have found ways to evade the challenge-response requirements for opening an account, a new study from email security firm MessageLabs reveals. Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer engineers at Rice University and the University of Michigan. IronPort's charismatic CEO puts his success down to having tasted failure in the past. He talks to Paul Fisher SC Magazine's UK editor about living with Cisco.