Eve Online goes dark to fight security breach
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Eve Offline EVE Online, the massively multi-player online Sci-Fi game, shut down for ten hours yesterday (Friday), after discovering a security breach.â¦
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Virtual world Second Life had to close its doors for a short time following a 'worm attack' called grey goo.
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This organization's IT security officer leaves and isn't replaced. A year and a half later, the organization suffers a Web page defacement and malware attack -- and no one is really surprised.
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Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or "zombie," computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider (ISP) Telenor ASA stumbled on the illicit network by tracing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) communications from compromised customer PCs on its system.
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By day, Alexander Vincent is a mild-mannered secretary for a Vallejo real estate broker. By night, he&#39;s an online crusader protecting users of a new Internet browser from glitches and security bugs.
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With The Entity heading back to his home dimension, one of the funniest Apple-humor sites on the Internet is scheduled to go dark for a few months.
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The game's over and patches are available, but many sites are infected with malicious code.
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FBI officials aren't clear on the motivation that led hackers to deface a handful of gaming sites last week, adding an FBI seal to the pages as well as a fake announcement that the site had been seized by the law-enforcement organziation for piracy.
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Several antispam organizations have been targeted by an attempt to knock them offline.
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Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world for entrepreneurs, is asking its 660,000 members to change passwords after a security breach may have exposed users' confidential data, including credit card numbers and passwords.
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Independent security developers, including the one that had a brief window of opportunity to patch Microsoft's VML flaw before Microsoft beat its own deadline, are now scrambling for their share of the spotlight in the wake of the re-emergence last week of an ActiveX control flaw.
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AOL's new 9.0 Security Edition seems intended to burnish the online service's reputation as the crossing guard of the Internet, but that's a goal that this release can't quite achieve. -Rob Pegoraro
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Relying on people to show up at a specific data center by a certain time to execute a recovery plan in the middle of a crisis reveals a certain lack of foresight. Consider an alternative -- keeping the lights on.
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Xenu phobia Websites associated with the Church of Scientology are intermittently unavailable today after an internet group calling itself Anonymous declared war on the controversial organisation.â¦
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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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Guardium, the database security company, closed 2006 with significant  growth as enterprises worldwide implemented its real-time,  appliance-based technology to secure their enterprise data, automate  compliance monitoring, and rapidly address auditors'  requirements.