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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 286 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: uk teen worlds youngest certified ethical hacker maybe comments Discuss  
Born to tinkerFor as long as he can remember, Shane Kelly has taken a keen interest in taking things apart. When he was 11 and his family took delivery of its first PC, he promptly pulled off the cover and disassembled it, much to the chagrin of his parents.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 284 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/10/certified_ethical_hacker/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register10th February 2008For as long as he can remember, Shane Kelly has taken a keen interest in taking things apart. When he was 11 and his family took delivery of its first PC, he promptly pulled off the cover and disassembled it, much to the chagrin of his parents."They weren't too impressed at the time," Kelly, who is now 16, says. "But I put it back together. It worked."A few month read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 277 days ago
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 226 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: kraken stripped worlds largest botnet crown maybe comments Discuss  
Is it new or is it Bobax?RSA If you're looking for a good reason why security professionals might want to pool their research about botnets and other cyber threats, look no further than findings released earlier this week about a botnet dubbed Kraken.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 162 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: scada security bug exposes worlds critical infrastructure comments Discuss  
Oil, food and plane industries at riskGasoline refineries, manufacturing plants and other industrial facilities that rely on computerized control systems could be vulnerable to a security flaw in a popular piece of software that in some cases allows attackers to remotely take control of critical operations and equipment.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 162 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/scada_vuln_discovered/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register12th June 2008Gasoline refineries, manufacturing plants and other industrial facilities that rely on computerized control systems could be vulnerable to a security flaw in a popular piece of software that in some cases allows attackers to remotely take control of critical operations and equipment.The vulnerability resides in CitectSCADA, a software product used to manage industrial control mechanisms kno read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 120 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: worlds biggest isps drag feet critical dns patch comments Discuss  
BT, AT&T among those putting subscribers at riskMore than two weeks after security researchers warned of a critical defect in the net's address lookup system, some of the world's biggest internet service providers - including AT&T, BT, Time Warner and Bell Canada - have yet to install a patch inoculating their subscribers against attacks.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 115 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:36:57 -0500 (CDT)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25/isps_slow_to_patch/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register25th July 2008More than two weeks after security researchers warned of a critical defect in the net's address lookup system, some of the world's biggest internet service providers - including AT&T, BT, Time Warner and Bell Canada - have yet to install a patch inoculating their subscribers against attacks.According to read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 89 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:17:28 -0500 (CDT)http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2432225.0.revealed_8_million_victims_in_the_worlds_biggest_cyber_heist.phpBy Iain S BruceSunday HeraldAugust 24, 2008 AN INTERNATIONAL criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious cyber-crimes ever and stolen the identities of an estimated eight million people in a hacking raid that could ultimately net more than 2.8billion in illegal funds.A Sunday Herald read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 57 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: worlds electrical grids invite attack comments Discuss  
Scads of SCADA bugsA serious vulnerability has been found in yet another computerized control system that runs some of the world's most critical infrastructure, this time in a product sold by a vendor known as the ABB Group.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 57 days ago
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:18:29 -0500 (CDT)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/25/abb_critical_bug/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register25th September 2008A serious vulnerability has been found in yet another computerized control system that runs some of the world's most critical infrastructure, this time in a product sold by a vendor known as the ABB Group.According to researchers from C4 - a firm specializing in the security of so-called SCADA, or Supervi read more »
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