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Web underground economy thriving
News Symantec's Report on the Underground Economy details cheap cyberattack tools, high price tags for bank account information, and software piracy trends.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Economy Server, Asia-Pacific, Tool, Password, IRC, credit card information, software, Symantec Corp.
Researchers: Conficker is all about money
News Conficker's ties to a large spamming and password-stealing botnet give credence to the speculation that money, and possibly malicious Eastern European hackers, are behind latest worm infection.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., Security, Antivirus Software, Worm, Trend Micro Inc., Waledac, Paul Ferguson, Marshale8e6, removable storage
Luscious Lara unleashes IRC worm
News The promise of a luscious Lara Croft screensaver is likely to fool Internet users into unleashing a new computer worm that spreads itself exclusively through Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Tips and tricks for the command line
Techguide Vincent Danen lists some favorite tips and shortcuts for working from the Command Line Interface.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Command, GUI, IRC, CLI, e-mail, shell script, Web Site, PHP
Symantec tool calculates your data's value to thieves
News Norton Online Risk Calculator figures out how much a person's online information is worth on the black market and offers a risk rating.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business security, Norton Co., Security, Tool, antivirus, social networking, Symantec Corp., identity fraud, asset
CentOS Linux developers threaten mutiny
News Programmers behind the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone demand that its founder share project control--or maybe they'll leave.
Tags: Linux, Open source, PayPal, Red Hat Inc., Project, Open-source Software, Developer, Advertisement, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, proprietary software
Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability
News Security hole in Windows that Microsoft released patch for last month is being exploited by worm and bots, Redmond says.
Tags: Network security, Viruses and worms, PC security, Microsoft Corp., Malware, Security, Worm, Computer, Server, IRC server
Run an IRC server with ngIRCd
Techguide Learn to set up the ngIRCd server to provide a layer of security for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Mozilla's messenger may compete with AIM, others
News In an ironic twist to America Online's open-source efforts, the AOL-funded Mozilla organization appears likely to support an instant messaging technology in direct competition with AOL's own messaging software.
Two nabbed in S'pore for Net drug sales
News Two people have been arrested in Singapore on charges of selling narcotics over the Internet.
IRC operators may out-hack Fizzer
News Administrators of Internet relay chat networks believe they might be able to eradicate the Fizzer virus, but the methods may run them afoul of cybercrime laws.
Q&A: FBI agent looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal
News J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the lengths he went to keeping up appearances.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Legal, FBI, IP, Spammer, IP Address, Server, phone, agent
Hacker hits IRC network Undernet with denial-of-service attack
News A hacker based in Romania has launched a major distributed denial-of-service attack, forcing one of the largest Internet Relay Chat networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system administrators said.
IRC group decrypts Fizzer commands
News Using what is essentially a password that changes daily, members of the chat-security group IRC/Unity have started telling Fizzer-compromised PCs to uninstall the virus.
Zombies try to blend in with the crowd
News Hackers aim to make hijacked computers go unnoticed by merging their communications with common Web traffic.
