Would You Hire A Hacker?
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theodp writes &quot;A German security company has divided opinion in the IT industry by offering a job to the teen charged with creating Sasser.
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Think you're safe from Internet fraud? Think again.
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Hackers could exploit the vulnerabilities to launch DOS attacks and bypass user authentication on the servers.
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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More than 80,000 Web sites worldwide display a small green logo that proclaims them to be "Hacker Safe." Is it a promise or a target?
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In 1980, I signed a deal with a company to market a product I was developing. The contract required me to turn over the source code, which I did. One day I went to a meeting at the office of the company, and there on the product manager's desk, right next to a door that opened to the outside, was a floppy labeled "Dave Winer's source code" in big letters.  If you own a Mac you may soon find out what that felt like. It's amazing to me that the tech blogosphere doesn't treat Apple's policy re broken hard disks as the huge gaping security hole that it is.  Think about it. We worry about bad people getting their hands on little pieces of data that, when added together, give them the power to be you in banking and credit transactions.  Think about what you would do if your laptop was stolen. Well, if you own a Mac and its hard disk goes bad, and you make the mistake of bringing it to Apple for service, you will turn over all that data to Apple. Not "may" or "might" but "will." What Apple in turn does with that data is none of your affair. They don't sign anything or offer any guarantees that they won't sell the disk to a data miner. Think it can't happen or that it's unlikely? I don't gain much comfort from your feeling of security. I've been writing about this issue since December 22. Usually when I write something critical of Apple, the results are mixed. Some people are supportive, but far more people attack. This time the ratio is very different. Almost everyone who has commented gets that there's a huge problem here. Can we solve this problem? Of course we can.  Some say that other vendors do this too. That gives me less comfort, not more. That means there's no escaping this crazy way of treating user's confidentiality. Ultimately it hurts the vendors because people can't use their computers for things the manufacturers say we can.  Further, it's got to be an issue for the banks, brokerage firms, credit agencies. If you are a newspaper and you employ reporters and they use a computer, how exactly are you guarding the confidentiality of your sources? If you're a confidential source, don't you have an interest when the reporter gives their computer manufacturer all their data to do with as they please? Imagine what you would do if it turned out there was a bug in a Netgear or Linksys router that allowed, under special circumstances, a mailicous person to gain access to the full content of your hard disk at any time. Would you have a problem with that? This is worse than Microsoft's neglect of malware that got me to stop using their computers. In that case it was Microsoft being neglegent. This time Apple itself is the cause of the problem. It's as if they planted a virus in their operating system that entitled them, under special circumstances, completely out of the user's control, to gain access to everything on your disk, with as much time as they want, with no way for you to prevent or even detect the intrusion.  See also: My letter to Steve Jobs.
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He turned over a new leaf, and turned it back again: A man previously convinced of hacking hundreds of military and government computers has been busted again, this time for massive credit-card theft. In between he became -- what else? -- a well-known security researcher.
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Hackers wouldn&#39;t bother writing malicious code to infect the Macintosh unless those computers actually mattered. By Eric Hellweg.
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Who said you could improve our software? What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program?â¦
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Vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain complete control of a system.
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Software kits make it easy for novice hackers to earn a living by sending out malware-laden spam.
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Cyber criminals are cashing in on their expertise by offering tool kits that let anyone craft attacks.
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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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Want to hack Windows? Better get familiar with the Registry first.