Anti-hacking laws 'can hobble net security'
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Good Samaritans discouraged by threat of prosecution Jeremiah Grossman has long stopped looking for vulnerabilities in specific websites, and even if he suspects a site to have a critical flaw that could be compromised by an attacker, he's decided to keep quiet.â¦
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A German law currently in draft form would make hacking illegal, even if no data was stolen. It would also ban the creation or use of hacker tools -- a prospect that worries "white hat" security experts.
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A distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted Web-based systems at credit card payment processing firm Authorize.NetÂ earlier this week is indicative of a sharp increase in the number of cyberattacks being targeted at specific companies and driven by profit motives on the part of the hackers who launch them.
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Unpatched vulnerabilities may leave computers open to remote attacks.
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Technique lets intruders exploit flaws previously thought to be insignificant, says security researcher.
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Â· Internet industry asked to help curb illegal materialÂ· Terror bill proposes new powers against suspects
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Security researchers release code that shows how a pair of widely used technologies could be misused to take control of a victim's Web browsing experience.
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It only takes 20 minutes on the Internet for an unprotected computer running Microsoft Windows to be taken over by a hacker. Any personal or financial information stored
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Military contractors may be concealing data breaches by international cyberspies.
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Study shows most attacks come from exploited PCs beloging to DSL or cable customers.
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Handling of images could allow an attacker to take over your PC.
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Targeted spyware, network break-ins, and other digital crime pushes cyber espionage to a new level of concern.
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Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorneyâs office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, âThis is my computer and my network; youâre just a computer janitor.â
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CAN-SPAM and other new laws help combat cybercrime, an FBI agent reports.
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Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking are concerning security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers.
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Fear of a Black Hat The German government this week published proposals to modernise the country's computer hacking laws.â¦
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Web security research is hampered by laws punishing researchers for even attempting to locate flaws in web software.