Bit Wars: When Computers Attack
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Governments are readying themselves for the Big One, a long-announced, long-awaited cyberwar of global proportions.
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A new attack against implementations of the popular RSA encryption scheme demonstrates how hard it is to protect information when someone else has control of the computer on which it resides.  Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Vulnerabilities in technology widely used for network authentication leave computers open to attack.
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Memory space on components such as graphics cards, DVD drives and batteries can be used by miscreants to load malicious code onto PCs.
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The purpose of this article is to analyze a public exploit in a lab environment, see the alerts generated by an intrusion detection system, and then do some packet analysis of the malicious binary in order to better understand it.
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'Isaiah' to battle Athlon 64, EM64T-based P4 etc.
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Motherboard chip sets don&#39;t normally excite much attention in the security world, but Nvidia&#39;s NForce 4 could turn out to be the exception.
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The federal government is holding a competition for a new cryptographic hash function that will become the national standard. Really, this is exciting stuff. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Ziff Davis - Holes in KOffice and RealPlayer allow attackers to take over a user's system.
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Letters: Going deeper on the question of security and operating systems.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Anyone stupid enough to do a computer's bidding is not losing civil liberties so much as their marbles.
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New PCs will ship with a chip designed to thwart hackers--a hardware approach that's said to be safer than software.
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This article discusses the discovery of compromised machines in large enterprise environments, and offers some suggestions on correlating NIDS and HIPS logs to avoid false positives.
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The emergence of a new breed of USB memory sticks may be opening new avenues of attack for hackers.
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Rinbot, the on-again, off-again threat that exploits a pair of long-patched vulnerabilities, may be back. But security researchers differ over how serious a threat it actually is.
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Analysis: Why blame a bit player for the sins of the big bosses
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Web War I: A rogue botnet crashes Estonia's internet. But a savvy politico, international cybercops, a secret society and just plain serendipity fend off the attack. It can't happen here? Don't bet on it.