Cyberattacks knock out Georgia's Internet presence
(8.20.2008)Large-scale attacks, traffic rerouting traced to Russian hacker hosting network Hackers, perhaps affiliated with a well-known Russian criminal network, have attacked and hijacked Web sites belonging to Georgia, the former Soviet republic now in the fourth day of war with Russia, a security researcher claimed on Sunday.
DOJ fingers global ring in alleged data thefts
(8.18.2008)This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld's print edition. A multinational ring of hackers that allegedly stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from U.S. retailers used wardriving and sophisticated programming skills to exploit network and system vulnerabilities, according to the federal government.
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IT security oversight may have enabled data breach
(8.11.2008)This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld's print edition. A former employee accused of stealing customer data from Countrywide Financial Corp. may have been able to download the information to a thumb drive because of an oversight by the home mortgage lender's IT department.
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Covert operation floats network-sniffing balloon
(8.10.2008)Rick Hill won't say where he launched his "wardriving" balloon on Friday, but he will tell you that it got a pretty good look at about 370 wireless networks while scanning up and down the Las Vegas Strip.
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Researcher: Intel fixed two critical flaws in its chips
(8.9.2008)A Russian researcher who plans to demonstrate this fall how he could take advantage of flaws in Intel Corp.'s chips, said the chip maker has told him it has fixed two critical bugs.
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